gallery / A collection of images of some of our ukuleles. Enjoy!

  This Keystone™ tenor because the figured maple soundboard looks like a wave receding from a pebbly beach. But as we were working on it, a demonic face began to emerge from the backboard. It’s creepy! You can clearly see the eyes and long stringy hair; and as you turn it in the light, the [...]

  Ukulele “Horizon” looks almost like she is two different ukuleles, with a distinct visual break along the sides, a ‘horizon’, if you will. She’s our first ukulele using spalted Tamarind. While not seen very often, it is a common wood. Tamarind is grown more for it’s fruit than its wood. And that works just [...]

  Dream is the companion ukulele to our concert ukulele “Horizon“. She is a tenor size and also uses dramatic Tamarind wood for her soundboard. She is different from Horizon in that she also has a Tamarind back. Because of the density of the Tamarind wood, Dream is heavier and has a very solid feel. [...]

Ukulele Mindy will debut at the 2013 Reno Ukulele Festival but she won’t be available, she’s being delivered there. She has a doubled 4th or G-string. One is high-G and one is low-G. I gotta tell you, this thing sounds good when she’s strummed. The high and low Gs just sound great together. The next [...]

You don’t need a loud Hawaiian print shirt to play your ukulele in when your ukulele already has an Aloha print! Queenie is a Keystone™ concert ukulele with an ‘old’ Hawaiian print on the back and sides. The main image on the back is a trio of plumerias over a painted tapa cloth. On the [...]

  Beauty or Beast? She’s both! We’ve been fine-tuning the “Mutant” concept ukulele for a few months now. The neck profile has been refined. It still retains it’s bladed profile but the part near the head has an unusual flat area that can only be understood through experiencing it. Is this the shape of necks [...]

Ukulele Voyager is a simple understated instrument. She’s all you need. Wonderful tone, lightweight, excellent balance, a comfort neck. She is an ukulele in it’s most basic form. Simplify. Ukulele “Voyager” will make her public debut at the 2013 Reno Ukulele Festival in Sparks Nevada, April 11-14, 2013. Come see us there!       [...]

    When we decided to make a bass ukulele we decided to go all in and make a true freak.  We wanted a creature not of this world. This is that creature. The Chtukulele…   The Chtukulele will make her public debut at the 2013 Reno Ukulele Festival in Sparks Nevada, April 11-14, 2013. [...]

This design is quickly becoming our most popular. The “Chopsticks” bracing gives our already loud keystone ukuleles even a little more punch and sustain. Hashi has a wonderfully mellow redwood soundboard and a simple understated look. A new feature on this ukulele is our comfort neck. The neck has a slightly asymmetric profile in that [...]

Lita is complete! She’s an acoustic/electric keystone tenor with a big bold voice. This has become our signature ukulele. We feel Poplar on the back and sides is the key to our big sound and Lita delivers. We’ve only just finished her but already her volume and sustain are terrific. Her Kauri soundboard is a [...]

Ukulele “Sakonnet” is a tenor Keystone with a bold Milk Paint finish. She was built for a young man who is, among other things, a musician and an Ultimate Frisbee player. The name Sakonnet originates with a tribe of native Americans from the north east and the name appears on several places in the region, [...]

Here’s a quick view of our new ukulele, “Paper”. Paper gets her name from her ultra-thin Padauk soundboard which is approximately one third as thick as our standard soundboards.     Paper was finished just yesterday but her voice is already developing nicely. Her sustain is tremendous for a concert size ukulele. Paper also has [...]

  “Island Girl” is a semi-shallow Keystone tenor in mineral-stained Poplar and Cedar. Her Polar sides have marks like the outline of an island or an aerial view of a coral reef. She’s perfect for strumming and picking in the shade of a palm tree. Specifications: Type: Keystone™, acoustic Size: Semi-shallow tenor Body: Poplar Soundboard: Cedar [...]

  “Soni” was built in response to several inquiries we had at the recent Wine Country Ukulele Festival in Napa, California. At Napa we had several people ask if we had any left-handed ukuleles. Unfortunately we didn’t. So now we do and her name is Soni. Soni gets her name from another Olympic swimmer since [...]

“Ginger” has our full-depth Keystone tenor body and a 17 inch scale. This is currently the largest ukulele we make and it’s also our most popular. The full-depth body gives her a big voice and there’s plenty of room for bigger hands to play on the fretboard. She’s also electric, with a K&K Sound Twin [...]

Introducing “The Monkey”! This ukulele is a Keystone super concert ukulele with some absolutely crazy-looking Birdseye Maple on front and back. The ‘birdseyes’ are just spooky! “The Monkey” also has a Maple neck so it’s blonde from end to end. Here are the debut pictures. Enjoy!                   [...]

“Decadent”…what else could you call a semi-hollow, HardBody, flattop, FatBottom, electric, super-soprano ukulele? As Heinlein once wrote, “All things in excess, moderation is for monks.” Decadent completes a trio of very special super-soprano ukuleles. She is executed in Zebrawood and Padauk just like Savanna but in a smaller size. Enjoy!     And finally, here [...]

Savanna is the followup to our acclaimed Ukulele F1. Savanna gets her name from the Zebrawood that makes up her back and sides. The African savanna is where zebras roam. Because the Zebrawood is so boldly striped, we used a solid color on the front to offset it, in this case Padauk. The bold red-orange [...]

Ukulele “Chopsticks” has actually been in development for some time now but we only recently got an opportunity to finish her. She is an experiment in bracing to see if we could increase volume and sustain by raising the braces up off the soundboard, at least partially. These braces are very lightweight. The crossed chopsticks [...]

One look at this quilted Maple sound board and the first thing that came to my mind was, “Oooh fancy!” It was that simple. “Fancy” is a concert-size, acoustic, Keystone ukulele with a sideport and a quilted Maple sound board. Enjoy! Smile when you play that!™

  One look at ukulele “California”‘s golden Kauri sound board and you’ll know why she just had to be named California. This beautiful Kauri looks like the golden hills over the Tejon Pass in early summer. It shimmers and moves like the golden grass on those hills and simply has to be seen to be [...]

Ukulele “Roni” is named for the actress Veronica Lake. Like her femme fatale namesake, “Roni” is a beguiling blonde and a real scene stealer.  Enjoy! Smile when you play that!™

  Breeze is the prototype for our new FatBottoms and Archtops. We’ve shortened the body to under 12 inches and fattened up the lower bout to a full 9″. This has increased our volume and decreased the overall length. We’ve gone to a zero fret and reduced the size of our heel plate. The overall [...]

  Akinori was built for my Dad. It’s a special keystone concert and uses 50,000-year old Kauri wood for it’s soundboard. It’s a new color for us, a wonderful golden yellow. Enjoy!               Smile when you play that!™  

Duke is built for a surfer. His woods were chosen to suggest the sea. The richly stained Poplar sides resemble flowing water seeking its own level. The wildly figured sound board was chosen because it suggests a wave receding from a pebbly beach. And finally the back has a narrow stripe up the center like [...]

Introducing Bruce. Bruce is a Keystone tenor ukulele with a custom Kung Fu finish executed in Milk Paint. He was built for a practitioner of the ancient martial art of Hung Gar Kung Fu. Hung Gar is based on the movements of five animals: tiger, dragon, crane, snake & leopard; and the qualities of five [...]

Introducing Cebollo! No that’s no misspelled, it’s a nickname, so it’s spelled a little differently than the spanish ‘cebolla’ although, that is part of it’s origin. Cebollo is a keystone acoustic/electric tenor that was built for a surfer.             Cebollo is ready to play some surf tunes! Smile when you [...]

Named for Italian soprano Renata Tebaldi, this is a semi-hollow, flat-top, soprano in a FatBottom™ shape. The back and sides are carved from a single billet of quartersawn curly Maple and the sound board is re-claimed 50,000 year old Mammoth Kauri. Enjoy!   Here are some more images of Renata’s curves… Smile when you play [...]

Our signature tenor keystone is by far our most requested ukulele and “Uke U” is a nice one. This example has a beautiful Curly Maple soundboard with our “wobbling” sound hole. The sound hole is acoustically optimized for maximum volume and sustain…ha ha! Actually it’s shaped by hand so it looks really cool. A Mahogany [...]

Sweet is a concert ukulele with a birdseye Maple sound board and neck. The neck is on our v-profile and the hard Maple is just butter-soft. She has a 16″ scale and uses standard GCEA tuning. Grover geared tuners turn premium fluorocarbon strings. Ain’t she sweet?   Smile when you play that!™

Jose is strikingly similar to Placido with the exception of his neck. This neck is our thin line profile and this shape is for those who prefer a thinner, flatter neck. This uses a 17″ scale and also has a birdseye Maple sound board. Jose has no side ports and uses standard GCEA tuning. A [...]

This tenor is an acoustic keystone with a modified v-profile neck executed in Mahogany. This neck is medium depth and very comfortable to hold and play. Placido includes a side port and his premium fluorocarbon strings are tuned low-G. The sound board is birdseye Maple for a nice bright sound. Smile when you play that!™

Luciano This tenor is an acoustic/electric keystone ukulele with a modified V-neck in Maple and a short 16″ scale. The Maple neck is super comfortable and the short scale is perfect for smaller hands. Your get the big sound of a tenor body but the smaller fret size of a concert length scale. Smile when [...]

This ukulele will be given away in at the end of the 2012 Reno Ukulele Festival as part of their big drawing.   This is actually one of the first ukuleles we wanted to paint. I’ve always loved Mondrian’s work and when we started painting ukuleles, I immediately wanted to do one like this. The [...]

The March Hare ukulele. This ukulele is named “Haigha” (pronounced like ‘Mayor” according to Lewis Carroll) after the character of the same name in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass. The March Hare in Carroll’s tale is a little bit crazy as is this particular ukulele. It’s a semi-hollow, archtop, electric soprano with an extended [...]