African Blackwood Ukulele Construction, U88 page 2
See images of this African Blackwood Ukulele construction from the beginning …
This custom ukulele project is a fun one! Working with African Blackwood offers up a great opportunity for any luthier to see what they are made of and yet the wood is divine in all regards.
From LMI … “African Blackwood … Strikingly different from other rosewoods in that it is flat black in color, and among the densest woods found on the planet, it is also one of the most expensive. The trees grow in isolated areas of the West African deserts and the trunks of these trees are twisted and small, yielding little guitar-sized wood. For those daring luthiers who don’t mind dulling their chisels on this hardest of guitar woods, African blackwood can contribute to a rare and valuable guitar with outstanding volume and power, given that the top is voiced appropriately.”
Features: Long neck high G tenor ukulele, African blackwood back, sides and headplate, Curly Port Oxford cedar top, mahogany neck, ebony radiused fretboard with bloodwood binding, ebony bridge, bloodwood body binding, slotted headstock, side soundport, Gilbert tuners, Paua Abalone rosette and purfling
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