I work in sets of four, so here are pictures from this set of four. Three are commissions and the fourth is a fund-raising donation to the Baily-Mathews Shell Museum. (Click on any picture to see the full resolution pictures.)
A concert with a streaky water-tank redwood top and spalted sycamore back and sides. Black bog oak binding, dogwood root burl as the headplate, with a ‘piping-pig’ inlay. Ebony fretboard and bridge, black-white-black purfling, poplar neck, paua abalone rosette.
Tenor with curly water-tank redwood top, casuarina back and sides, curly koa binding, bocote fingerboard which extends into the headplate, side sound port, scoop with amboyna burl, black-red-black purfling, Port Orford cedar neck with black walnut spline, rosette in pau abalone with a ‘point’ to match the points on the fingerboard and bridge.
Tenor as a donation to the Baily-Mathews Shell Museum. Casuarina back and sides, cypress top (a Florida ukulele, Baily-Mathews is in Sanibel Florida). Richlite fingerboard and headplate, sycamore binding, black-white-black purfling, spiral rosette in pink abalone pearl, Baily-Mathews logo on headplate, extensive mollusc inlays down the fingerboard and on the heel cap.
Baritone with ancient sitka spruce top (some 2800 years old, supplied by the customer) and curly black walnut from my local sawmill. Black bog oak binding (2000-4000 years old), scoop with pomelle sapelle, ebony fingerboard and bridge, book-matched walnut crotch on headplate with feather inlay, mastodon ivory saddle (the ‘old’ theme), black-white-black-white purfling, rosette in pink abalone pearl, local poplar neck.
