Category: Solid Wood
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Muradian/Kamoa/KoAloha-Custom Concert
In my last post, I shared my DIY woodburning ukulele project. The inspiration for that came after I purchased this masterpiece of pyrography in the form of a concert ukulele. This was a collaboration between Koaloha and pyrographer Dino Muradian. I purchased it from Hawaiian Music Supply (theukulelesite.com) after listening to a demo on their…
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Every Ukulele Tells a Story
Several years ago I became interested in pyrography on ukuleles. I had already purchased a couple of ukuleles with burned tops (more on those is separate posts) and thought I would give it a try. I had no pretense that my woodburning work would meet or exceed the work of professional pyrography artists, but the…
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Don’t Uke Fret
Several years ago I saw a post on Beau Hannam’s website showing a fretless ukulele that he made. Since then, I have contemplated having one made but I wasn’t sure if I wanted to invest in something that I had no experience with. The demos for fretless ukuleles are few and far between. Recently, I…
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Holey Uke!
Have you ever had one of those days when all you want to do is scroll through ukulele tonewood websites? Same here. One day… I think it was a few days before we would learn that Covid would send our world topsy-turvy, I discovered Alaska Specialty Woods. At the time, they carried a great deal…