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Summer Uke Build #15: Fingerboard and Fret Slotting Miter Box
After having cut a few fingerboard blanks from a chunk of mesquite, I need to choose one and get it thicknessed and ready for use. I picked the best one and flattened it, squared up one side and...
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Summer Uke Build #16: Cutting Fret Slots
With my last entry, I had been attempting to make a template to accurately space the frets. After several failed attempts, I decided to just correct the template with the fewest issues. I had been...
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Summer Uke Build #17: Neck Mortise
The last several days of shop time have been pretty much dedicated to building a neck mortise jig. This jig is designed to hold the uke body firmly while routing the neck mortise. The neck mortise has...
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Summer Uke Build #18: Fitting the neck
My initial attempt to fit the neck was a utter failure. The mortise and tenon fit pretty well, though the shoulders of the tenon were not flush with the body. So I tweaked and tweaked the shoulders...
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Summer Uke Build #19: Rough Shaping Neck and Aligning Fingerboard
Over the last few days I’ve been rough shaping the neck. I’ll spare the details of the scarf joint that puts the headstock at a 15 degree angle as I covered that on the previous neck blank I made. Here...
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