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    Not quite a guitar but so much fun

    In between guitar builds I’ve managed to get the solid body electric ukulele out of my head and into reality, never done a from scratch build before so this was a challenging gentle but so much fun project. Found some bits of wood that looked like firewood, after cleaning it up I found beautiful European oak for a through neck and some camphor laurel with beautiful grain and a few holes in it which I filled with coloured resin for the rest of the body. Put a passive peizo under the saddle and hey presto it works. It’s been a real treat to make this instrument just as much as playing it.
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    Wowsers.

    Is the neck and fretboard scratch built too?
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    Looks great. Very unique and lovely pieces of timber.
    PitBull Builds: FVB-4, LP-1SS, FBM-1, AG-2, TB-4, SSCM-1, TLA-1,TL-1TB, STA-1HT, DSCM-1 Truckster, ST-1, STA-1, MBM-1, MBM custom, GHR-1 (Resonator), FH-5V (Acoustic).

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    Neck is from scratch but fretboard was bought on the net, ukes have such small fret wire I was pretty sure I’d stuff it up
    Having success with this I’m encouraged to try an scratch build electric guitar now - love the process
    Last edited by Tgraham; 21-08-2025 at 04:19 PM.

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    If anyone is interested have a look at Jake Shimabukuro on YouTube omg changes the whole idea of the uke being a toy instrument.

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