Itty Bitty cigar box ukulele

[dismount]

Hi everbody, just finished up a new uke I wanted to show off some. Its a sopranino scale smaller than the small est uke. It's cherry neck with a spanish cedar body with a thin veener of spanish cedar overlay on the head stock. the fret board is pallet wood maybe mahogany heart wood. I will have to use a draw knife on my fingers to fit the frets. Its pretty small but it's loud and clear. Thanks for lookin at it  Dismount

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[DanaM]

Well dats just plain ol kewl eh

[KenH]

Nice job, dismount!  In my "other" free time, build Mountain Dulcimers, Lyres, Kannel/Kantele, and Spanish Rebecs.

[dismount]

DanaM I was going to call it cute but I thought I'd lose man points   Thanks Ken I don't khow what those last two instruments are but I bet its hard to build 'em

[islandpiper]

Dismount, you mentioned in a PM that you were traveling, and would try to CARRY YOUR UKE ON.......sounds like a trip to Northern Canada......(  get it?  Uke On.....?? )

Nice job, looks like you have it figured out.   I have two new violins in progress now and also a Medieval Vielle, one of the very first violin-type instruments. 







Keep up the good work.  But, don't quit your day job.  Piper

[dismount]

Wow!!! Is there anything you can't build??? how many hours scraping that sound board?  All of them I bet. No no quitting day work, nobody here would give a Brass Farthing for my stuff. (You got me in a midevel English mood)  Yes I will be going up in the Yukon this summer so I can get my uke on. You're a regular Bob Hope    Dis

[Hillbilly]

That's pretty cool. Now all you need is a itty-bitty Marshall half-stack. Piper, you ever build any f-style mandolins?

[islandpiper]

Sorry, no F-style mandos, and for the same reason i don't wear a necktie.   They look nice but serve no purpose. 

My mandos are a two-point sort of A-style, based on a 1924 Regal. 
piper

[recurve shooter]

Is there anything you can't build???

im pretty sure he can do it all.  like he tells me, when you build violins for a living, everything els is pretty easy. 

[KenH]

Nice work Piper!

Dismount - a Kantele or Kannel looks sorta like an Autoharp but with fewer strings; comes from Finland and that part of the world.  A Rebec is a medieval  1-3 string mini-fiddle.  Both of them are made from a hollowed out slab body - not pieces of thin wood glued together as you can see Piper is doing.  In one district in Spain they make them using an old wooden shoe as the body!  Buy a pair of shoes, make his 'n hers Rebecs!

[Alpinbogen]

Very nice.   I'd love to hear it.  Any sound bites with it?   

[dismount]

I don't have a video yet, I'd like to have it on there maybe My daughter can  try it . Well see. Thanks for asking. Phil

[youngbowyer33]

just the other day a man came to our school to play the ukulele, it was  fascinating, and he was extremely good. he had 2 electric ones, but he made some sweet sounds