The next four

The next four are going to be an interesting, somewhat different collection, using different local woods.  I am building two concerts and a soprano to build up a little ‘smaller’ ukulele inventory as most of what I have are tenors.  So, the lineup is:

soprano – dogwood back and sides, redwood top

concert – spalted sycamore back and sides, local aromatic cedar top

concert – apple back and sides.  I cut this a while back from a local orchard that was replacing a row of trees.  It is surprising to me how hard and stiff apple wood has turned out to be.  Should make a very nice instrument.  Streaky water-tank redwood top.

????? – The last one is a ‘surprise’, both because I have no idea how it will work out (a completely new thing) and it is going to be a present and I don’t want to ruin any surprise if they happen to be reading here.

The wood layed out and started to be made into ukuleles.  I build in sets of four since that is what fits in my little workshop.

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