Walnut Tenor Uke (IW#114)


A young friend of mine that is a songwriter wanted a uke to compose on.  This one came from a pile of black walnut that a friend had gifted me many years ago, which I had never used.  As usual, I found some smaller, off-cut bits that are too small to make furniture out of and used those.

I especially love the sap wood/heart wood contrast in walnut, something that most of the time is avoided in furniture.  The cool thing about building ukes is that we can celebrate what would otherwise be a defect.  The back of this one looks particularly attractive, I think.

Here is what it sounds like:


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