Tuesday, August 19, 2008

We found the kit

We found ukuleleworld.com that sells a kit with plans... well a box of all of the wood needed and some plans. Stew looked through it for a while and knew a little less about ukulele's than I do which isn't much. Our combined knowledge consisted of: a small stringed instrument from Hawaii played by Don Ho.

A little research on my part revealed that there is a lot of similarity in construction to that of a guitar, so now I'm a step ahead. The kit from ukuleleworld looks good, it's complete and all of the pieces are labeled. Stew made the decision to upgrade to the curly koa which has some amazing figure to it. The kits are actually put together by Bob Gleason of Pegasus Guitars and Ukuleles in Hawaii who is a builder himself (http://www.pegasusguitars.com) and he provides some tips and information on building.

Here's the kit:


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