Triple 0 in Blackhearted Sassafras and Bunya Pine
Apr 16, 2023 7:16:05 GMT
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Post by bobholbert on Apr 16, 2023 7:16:05 GMT
Howdy
Just thought I would share the current project, which is starting to take shape.
This is build number 14. It all started with a StewMac ukulele kit at the outset of the first Covid lockdown, in March 2020. Since then, I have built a further 6 ukuleles, two flat top mandolins and two steel string acoustic guitars. I have had two "did not finish" but I keep them in the sequence to remind myself!
This will be Triple O steel string acoustic, with a 25.34 inch scale length. Bunya Pine soundboard, Blackhearted Sassafras back and sides, Blackwood binding, bolt on Queensland Maple neck, Jarrah bridge and fingerboard, River Oak headstock, Lacy Oak rosette. Gotoh 510 tuners.
I don't use either an external or internal mould, but prefer free air building on a sort of solera, similar to the approach adopted by Natelson and Cumpiano.
Back and top are thicknessed and bracing is largely complete (waiting on some brace wood in the mail for the transverse brace above the sound hole). Next step is to start work on the neck and fingerboard and to thickness and bend the sides.
Just thought I would share the current project, which is starting to take shape.
This is build number 14. It all started with a StewMac ukulele kit at the outset of the first Covid lockdown, in March 2020. Since then, I have built a further 6 ukuleles, two flat top mandolins and two steel string acoustic guitars. I have had two "did not finish" but I keep them in the sequence to remind myself!
This will be Triple O steel string acoustic, with a 25.34 inch scale length. Bunya Pine soundboard, Blackhearted Sassafras back and sides, Blackwood binding, bolt on Queensland Maple neck, Jarrah bridge and fingerboard, River Oak headstock, Lacy Oak rosette. Gotoh 510 tuners.
I don't use either an external or internal mould, but prefer free air building on a sort of solera, similar to the approach adopted by Natelson and Cumpiano.
Back and top are thicknessed and bracing is largely complete (waiting on some brace wood in the mail for the transverse brace above the sound hole). Next step is to start work on the neck and fingerboard and to thickness and bend the sides.
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Jo whoever he is.
