A Fun & Fabulous Ukulele Blog
Happy new gear day!! Well I finally did it. I got my first ukulele with a fan fretboard. I had been looking for one of these for awhile, but they were always sold out on Reverb and the custom made ones were not in scope …
Today I am sharing a custom Alto Ukulele from Beansprout Ukulele. The body size is somewhere between a soprano and concert size at 23.5 inches in length. To me, it definitely feels like a soprano but the slightly longer fretboard seems to give it a …
Michael Pereira is a luthier from California, USA. I started learning the ukulele right about when there was a rumor he was starting to wind things down with his custom shop. (See update below.) I always wanted one of his custom ukuleles after watching Ken …
As promised, I am going to walk you through the simple process of changing ukulele tuners, also called tuning pegs, also called machine heads. Basically, the pegs on the head of the ukulele where you tie one end of each string and wind it until …
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 …
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 …