A friend brought over a baritone ukulele for me to fix . When I got it playing I really liked the sound. (A baritone ukulele is tuned one-fifth below a tenor/soprano ukulele, which make the 4 strings the same pitch as the top four strings on a guitar.)
So, I set up the patterns, jigs, etc. to make baritone ukuleles. This is the first one out of the shop.
It has curly maple sides and back made from some maple I had cut at a local sawmill some 40 years ago, and have been dragging around ever since. The top is Alaskan yellow cedar from a company that harvests wood from trees that are standing dead, or old logs that have fallen but still contain much usable wood.
Curly koa bindings, bocote fingerboard and bridge, koa headstock overlay.
This instrument has a really big sound. It is amazing that that much sound can come from what seems like a relatively small box. I’m liking that yellow cedar!
