First Ukelele

This is my first Uke build that I made it for a friend. He supplied the carved box. I carved out the spaces between design to create sound holes. It worked quite well. It has a nice warm sound.

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Permalink Reply by Loco on February 20, 2015 at 2:10pm
beautiful uke Greg

your friend will be happy.

cant stop looking at that Box.

wish i had one. looks like the carved leather boxes back home in lima peru.
Permalink Reply by Greg Thompson on February 21, 2015 at 3:54am
Thanks Loco! My friend found this box in FL. It's an old hand carved cigar box. He collects interesting boxes. The Uke is for his son, actually. His son joined a Uke group at his school and his father thought it would be a cool gift.

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