Ukulele Building- Making a curly walnut back and sides

Ukulele Building- Making a curly walnut back and sides.
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The song is “Carolina” by M Ward, performed by The Quiet American
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The walnut is from a tree from Medford, OR. www.woodfromthewest.com

[@markgrimm3564]

wow nice score on that chunk of black walnut

[@short6691]

Awesome demo! Your curly walnut is a lot fancier than my wood! I watched with great interest. Earlier this week I was doing the same thing with white oak and crab apple for my pineapple tenor ukulele builds. I slabbed, planed and glued 7 front/backs. I will sand them in a few weeks. My goal is 5 ukuleles in 2023. I finished 3 in 2022. I usually plane both sides of a book match together (left and right sides stacked) so I take off the same amount from each side. And I glue with a “Spanish Cross” cord & wedge jig. But your economy of plane strokes is impressive so you don’t create offset. Starting with a jointed edge certainly helped. Very nice and productive. My wood comes from my neighbor’s trees as 4’-6’ logs, 14”-24” diameter. I rip them into pie shaped quarters with a manual frame saw. Then I dry them in my basement for a few years. I cut my thin panels with a “little ripper” bandsaw attachment as the faces on hand ripped logs are not very flat. I select book match pairs and layout the ukulele shape with my template carefully considering the hinge line. I then tape the sides together (stacked as sawn) with the show face to the middle and mark the body outline . I then cut an line on the bandsaw with 1/8” or so clearance, clamp the pair in a vice and plane to the hinge line datum. All that work sort of catches me up to where you were with your nice flat and smooth jointed edge.

[@wintermute4755]

more videos like this please! I love seeing the process.

[@turbochargedus-vz5dz]

Wow! 😍

[@stevesstrings5243]

Nice process! You make it look easy!

[@johnsargent377]

Impressive process demonstration

[@mikek4708]

Really fascinating to see a master at work. The wood you use is extraordinarily gorgeous examples. Thanks for sharing.

[@beansproutmusicalinstruments]

Thanks for watching Mike!

[@michellek5789]

Really enjoy these build along videos!

[@beansproutmusicalinstruments]

Me too! I hope to make more of them.

[@EMOxxSLAYERx]

Is that 2hp on the hitachi resaw or something larger? Obviously not the original ear buster

[@beansproutmusicalinstruments]

3hp. The blade is a little dull so it slowed down a bit on this board.