Some Ukes For The Denver Uke Fest

Black Concert Banjo Uke
Amber Concert Banjo Uke
Amber Tenor Banjo Uke

Mahogany Hawaiian Style Soprano
Spruce and Mahogany (red stain) Hawaiian Style Concert
Tiple (Mine!)
Cigar Box Uke
Koa Tenor (For Yannick)

Cigar Box Ukulele

I got a cigar box from my Grandfather that came out of his attic.



It is a "Havana Seconds" cigar box made of solid cedar. It is sometime before WWII, I imagine. I thinned the original top, braced it, inlayed a simple walnut rosette and built a maple/walnut neck, bridge and fingerboard.




It took me four tries to glue the neck on! It turns it the cedar panel I was gluing it to was too soft and flexible to take the butt joint. Instead I replaced the pannel with a piece of cherry with a nice big mahogany heel block. I then sunk two bolts through it into the neck and its solid as a rock!


I put a fret wire saddle, bone nut, gotoh friction tuners and aquila strings. I tuned it up to D tuning and it sounds great. Decent tone and volume for a small box.


Also, I built it with a scale that is one fret short of normal soprano scale and 13 frets. It will be for sale at the Denver Uke Fest and then on Ebay if needed.