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We have available detailed, full-size 24" x 36" shop drawings of both soprano and concert scale ukuleles, suitable for someone "handy" to use to make their own. $14.00 US each including postage. Please use the PayPal link(s) below to order the drawing(s)! Hey, videos! Below are links to 26 separate little videos (total of about 3 hours!) showing various stages of construction from start to finish.
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Two inches is a perfectly acceptable depth. The boxes I have used were 1 7/8" deep, and they sound great. For a soprano, 9 1/2 inches long is about ideal, for a neck that joins at the twelfth fret.
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I build ukulele from the finest woods available. Acoustic or electric, the 500 I have built to date are played throughout the world by professionals, collectors and amateurs alike. If you commission an instrument from me you will get a 'keeper' that you will be able to hand down to your posterity. Although the pages on this website are fairly explicit I like to talk in real life to potentential customers. So send me an email with your phone number and I'll get back to you and we can 'reason together'...
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These are the manufacturer's basic standards for ukulele sizes and scaling dimensions. Now and then, a manufacturer moves from these standard sizes a bit.
Dimensions of Ukulele Sizes and Scaling Dimensions :: Ukulele Sizes and Dimensions :: Ukuleles - Acoustic :: Ukulele World Home page
Building a Ukulele
Photo at left shows most of the materials used to build a soprano ukulele. The thin pieces for the body top, back, and sides were re-sawn from the mahogany lumber they are laying on. The fingerboard was cut from a Brazilian rosewood guitar fingerboard blank that I bought in the '70's and had since warped. The blanks for the nut and saddle were cut from ebony fingerboard scraps. The blank for the neck will also be of mahogany. A small amount of spruce and maple were also used for inside bracing.
Ukulele Sizes – Soprano, Concert, Tenor, Baritone | Live 'Ukulele
Many people seem to think that ‘ukulele size determines how you play. While you do alter your stance and approach to accommodate different sizes, you don’t have to change your knowledge or learn anything new. There is no “how do I play a tenor vs. how do I play a soprano?”
When I started my first instrument as a hobby project, I never imagined that it would become a new career. Lutherie is now both my job and my passion. It's not for everyone, but if you like woodworking, like to create, and have a love for music, then don't let what seems to be a daunting process stop you from trying. I hope that this site will help. All Text and Photos Copyright © 2002 by Al McWhorter
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The following illustrates the approach I use to build acoustic steel-string guitars. It's intended to be a sort of pictorial journey through the construction of a guitar. It's currently a work-in-progress; I'll add sections as I reach those points in building this season's instruments. In general, I use the approach described by Irving Sloane in his wonderful book "Steel-String Guitar Construction" (E.P. Dutton and Co., NY, 1975). I've varied from his method in a number of areas (arched top, neck joint, truss rod, etc.), but I still use his wonderful rubber-band gluing jig for joining the top and back to the sides.