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Jojobilou
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Hello everybody ! :)

After my third electric guitar (viewtopic.php?t=21584), I'm starting a new project, a soprano ukulele, a Christmas gift for my wife (I'd better to hurry up).

Top and braces : Engelmann spruce
Back and sides : Ziricote
Fretboard and headplate : ebony
Black and white MOP inlays on the headstock
Neck : spanish cedar
Orange and blue maple purflings and flamed maple bindings
Tuners : grover
Rosette : Green abalone purfling + Orange and blue maple purflings

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"Ours" means "Bear" in french... ;)

Here is a plan : http://www.lutherie-amateur.com/jojobil ... oulele.pdf

Some home made spool clamps :

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The top, back and the full set :

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First side bent (with an ibex iron) :

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The backstrip (flamed maple binding + orange and blue maple veneer) :
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And these afternoon's work, gluing the tail and neck blocks, I use friendly plastic for the inner mold :
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Still a lot to do before Christmas... [uncle] :mrgreen:

Comments and tips are welcome of course... ;)

See you,

Ben
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Ben,
That is some striking ziricote... any more of that hiding around? Get that neck carved and I think you'll be in business for Christmas. Can't wait to see and hear the finished product.
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Hi Chris !

thanks for your kind words !!! :)

Chris Oliver wrote:
any more of that hiding around?


Huhu... I bought three planks (0.6" thick) to a veneer mill, I re-saw each board in two sets... Two OM and two dread or even jumbo size sets... ;)

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I love ziricote... bliss

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That's some great wood Ben! Shoes are nice also. :lol:

Going to be a mighty sweet uke!

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Joe Sustaire wrote:
That's some great wood Ben! Shoes are nice also. :lol:

Going to be a mighty sweet uke!

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Hello there !

I had time last saturday to work on the ukulele... it's gonna be hot to finish it for Christmas... wow7-eyes :lol:


Gluing the kerfed linings :
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Kerfings glued, sides planed and sanded, I used a stanley 60 1/2 and a scraping plane :
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A home-made soundhole routing jig oops_sign :mrgreen: :
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The rosette routed :
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Back's braces glued :
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And a little bit of platina shellac :

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I'll continue after work these week, and I hope I'll manage to finish it before Christmas...

See ya,

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Looking real good . [:Y:] Is the top 2 piece or single piece ?

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Thanks a lot James... :)

The top is in one piece, so I will have the second half to build one more... ;)
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Suuuuweeeeet... ho ho ho... !

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I'll continue after work these week, and I hope I'll manage to finish it before Christmas...


It seems possible. Laurent Brondel built a concert uke to bring to woodstock in only 3 days.
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Hi all,

Well, I had a tuff week at work, so I didn't spent time in my "shop"... [headinwall]

These afternoon, I worked on the rosette :

Blue and orange maple veneer and abalone :
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For a first attempt, I'm quite satisfied, even if the abalone joints aren't very tight... but I didn't think I'll spent so much time on it... :| [uncle]

Have a nice evening,

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Hello everybody !!!

After a good chisel sharpening these morning to weak me up, I deal with the back braces :

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Then I made the soundhole :
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I glued the bridge plate (sipo mahogany) and the top braces, and carved them :
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And I prepare the BRW bridge blank :

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I'm in holidays tomorrow night, so it's gonna be a 4 days lutherie marathon !!! :lol: ;)

Have a nice evening,

See ya,

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good job Ben, keep it up. I have no doubt you'll finish with 4 days of holiday.
Keep us posted.

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Thanks for the support Chris !!! :) ;)
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Hi all,

Today, I closed th box !!!

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Tomorrow, bindings channels, bindings' bending and gluing, thursday neck and fingerboard, friday inlays and one or two coats of shellac, the finishing is going to be for the 26th... oops_sign :mrgreen:

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Well done and Merry Christmas.
Your wife is a lucky woman!
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were you able to give it to her?
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Hi there and Merry Christmas to all !!!

Well, I gave her the body... :?

I failed to bend the maple+veneer bindings, they were to thick (2.5mm)... I have to make new ones... ;)
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Its looking excellent [:Y:] , im sure you got some extra hugggs for that one ! laughing6-hehe

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Yeah, man, this thing was looking GORGEOUS! Let's see the finished product! :D
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Wow! That looks really great! Like to see a finished product. :)
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