Palm Strings Ukulele Festival III

Feb 15, 2017 | 2017 Palm Strings III, FEATURED

Festival season is about to begin and we are heading to Palm Springs to open our year. 2016 was a challenging year with Diana having back surgery in May and me having shoulder surgery in August, but all things considered, we’re both doing pretty darn well....

What’s with the bridge?

Feb 13, 2017 | FEATURED, lutherie

The New Drilled-Through Bridge In our most recent ukulele builds we’ve changed over to a drilled-through bridge. There are a number of reasons for this and we’ll go over them here. Besides looking very clean and simple, the drilled-through bridge offers...

Cutting soundboards and backboards

Oct 28, 2016 | FEATURED

As I rehabilitate my shoulder, I’m doing what I can in the shop, making the various bits and pieces I need for building our ukuleles. I’ve got some beautiful Poplar and a nice piece of Mango that we’ve been cutting up. Poplar is so varied. It’s...

Headless or not? That is the question.

Oct 18, 2016 | FEATURED, short-scale bass

Headless or not? As we’ve been playing our first solid body electric basses, we’ve definitely noticed the weight, particularly after playing ukuleles. Our v1.x basses, while lighter than most full-size basses, still are quite hefty. So the notion of going...

Workshop – V2.2_opt.B

Aug 31, 2016 | FEATURED, IU Workshop

Design of the workshop continues apace Space planning is fascinating to me. We recently re-designed our kitchen and it is now a functional masterpiece. You won’t see it’s modest design featured in Architectural Digest but whether you’re cooking for...