Found a busted pink guitar at Goodwill for $2.00.  Bought it thinking I use the neck on a different project, but then found a second for $8.00.  Turned that one into a baritone uke by stringing it in the middle of the neck with the upper four strings of a guitar.

 

My daughter asked if I could find her one and I thought of the original purchase still in the garage.

 

I reshaped the headstock, cut the tuners down from an inline three to an inline two configuration, sanded the pink paint off, repainted it in a General Motors metallic blue. 

 

The neck had come off, so I reglued the neck and reassembled the guitar as a baritone ukulele that uses steel strings and has traditional guitar string spacing.

 

It had no bridge saddle, so I borrowed an idea from CBN and cut the head off a machine screw and laid it into the slot.  Will have to find a small screw as the strings are a tad high, but the idea is sound.

 

Will have to take the strings back off and glue the bridge down (got excited to see if it would sound okay and forgot that step.)

 

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