3 Piece Koa wood neck
The uke was built from a single piece of ground harvested Hawaiian Koa wood
Crazy penny abides!
Old school
Neck, headstock veneer, book-matched front and back
Flame Koa via a wonderful band saw
Braces are introduced - Redwood
Braces are introduced - Redwood
Exact placing of braces
Exact placing of braces
Glued in braces
Top plate bracing
Note sound hole jig
Bottom plate reinforcement band
Bottom plate reinforcement band
Love the wood
Big wide sides
Side forms
Koa sides, thinned and sank in the water
Hot banding pipe
Sides clamped around forms
Sides clamped around forms
Don't get that space wrong
Elaborate shape jig took longer to make than the Uke
Sweet
Simple neck block clamps
Tail block in
That Space!
That crazy shepard mix, great company
Purling in
Purfling in
Fitting back
View from front
View from front
Good Rims - Jack hole drilled
Good
Purfling
Purfling
New glue - note sound hole jig
Gluing top plate
Gluing top plate
Gluing top plate
Tortoise-shell Binding - two piece glued
Tortoise-shell Binding - two piece glued
Tortoise-shell Binding - two piece glued
Binding is given its general shape over side jigs
Binding is given its general shape over side jigs
Binding Groove - Stressful
Love that Tortoise-shell binding
Love that Tortoise-shell binding
Clean
Checking thickness on neck 3 piece
Ebony fingerboard
Tedious but important
Bits of AB shell, resin pressed - great inlay
Checking designs
Checking designs
A bit more conservative
A bit more conservative
Clever razor (those Swiss)
Jewler saw for logo
Careful
Don't lose
Place
Place
Powder and Varnish
Workable
Nervous time with mini router
OK
OK
Wings of the headstock
Straight file
Neck shaping jig
Headstock Veneer
Glue pegs - clamps force veneer to slide off line
Nervous time
Toth time
Toth time
Back to router
Back to router
Descent!
Logo glued, binding slots
Binding
Gluing fingerboard
Love that binding
Love that binding
Looking Uke-ish
Bottom plate time
Way overdone Uke neck joint
Way overdone Uke neck joint
Slotted peg experiment
Slotted peg experiment
Typically Ukes are given two screws
Fret dots
Cleaned up
Fret dots
A bit younger - reasonably happy
Bottom time
Label
Date
Weight
Final glue up
Final glue up
Shoot it
Not before back binding
Not before back binding
Nice detail on back binding
Vidal Sassoon
Black - tort front
Clean
Peg holes
Me
Love that binding
Shoot it
Flame on
