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

“Mama Uke” is Ideale size, 5-string in our signature Keystone shape. She has a beautiful spalted Tamarind soundboard and our comfort-profile neck.                 Specifications: Type: Keystone™, acoustic/electric Size: Ideale™ Body: Poplar Soundboard: Spalted Tamarind Neck: Sapele –  medium comfort profile Scale length: 16″ Total # frets: 18 Frets to the […]

“Go” in Japanese is the number “5″. It’s a simple name for a very special ukulele. This ukulele is an Ideale™ size. It is bigger than a concert and smaller than a tenor and has a 16″ scale. In addition, it has a doubled fourth- or G-string. One string is tuned high-G and the other […]

Shinrin Yoku or “forest bathing” is a simple but beautiful idea. Go to a Forest. Walk slowly. Breathe. Open all your senses. This is the healing way of Shinrin-yoku, the medicine of simply being in the forest. – from http://www.shinrin-yoku.org/   This ukulele named for this simple practice will hopefully bring about all the same healing […]

Emerald is an Ideale-size body with a 17″ scale tenor neck, demonstrating the versatility of our new sized ukulele. With 14 frets to the body and 18 total frets, she handles and plays like a tenor but has a slightly smaller form factor. We intend for this to become out new standard. Ukulele “Emerald” will […]

Wobble is the close cousin to Weeble that we recently built. Wobble is a full-size tenor with a K&K Sound Twin Spot pickup. This is our biggest body and this ukulele has a big voice. This is the closest thing to a signature ukulele that we make. This particular ukulele also has our asymmetric comfort neck profile. It […]

Evolution of the species! This is the first Ideale™-size ukulele we’ve made available to the public! What is an Ideale size you ask? Well it’s bigger than a concert, yet smaller than a tenor. Its scale length is 16″, which is a longer scale than a concert (15″) but a shorter scale than a tenor […]

Ukulele “Dardanella” is our quintessential concert ukulele in its purest form. In our favorite combination of Poplar and Redwood, she is a simple beauty. Dardanella is a 15″-scale concert which is our smallest keystone ukulele. Her compact form factor however, belies her full voice. Our keystones are known for being quite loud and her voice will continue to open up […]

Kokoro is a Japanese word that doesn’t translate well into English as a single word. It translates roughly as “heart,” as in “She has a heart of gold.” But, it’s not the organ in the body that pumps blood. It can also mean – mind – spirit – kindness – compassion – thoughtfulness and many other ideas as well. […]

After perhaps the longest gestation in history, during our surprisingly stubborn wrist issues, ukulele “Weeble” moved glacially through the shop. Well, she finally made it and today she makes her debut! Weeble is a 17″-scale tenor which is the largest we make. And despite being just recently strung, she has a big voice. I can’t […]

This very special ukulele “Cara Mia” is built for and named after our beautiful grand daughter. It’s a semi-hollow FatBottom, sopranino in Maple, Kauri and plywood. We’ll be displaying it until Cara Mia is old enough to play it. It’s built ambidextrous because we don’t know if she’s right- or left-handed. Here are the pictures. […]

  Ukulele “Suzanna” is the biggest Keystone ukulele we’ve ever made. She has a full depth body, and an extended 18-inch scale. This overall size combined with the paired 4th strings gives her a big big voice. To emphasize the low-G sound over the high-G, the low-G string is located outside (in what might be […]

Ukulele “Banshee!”… kind of a scary name, but in truth, he’s anything but scary. “Banshee” is named after a Guinea pig… yeah, you read that right, so think cute & cuddly, not scary & screaming. This ukulele is unlike any we have made before but it is a prototype of things to come. It is […]

Anacapa is another example of simple happy ukulele. She’s named for Anacapa Island (really three islands) off the coast of Southern California, because she’ll be headed down there after the Wine Country Ukulele Festival in September. Anacapa is a standard tenor in Poplar and birdseye Maple. We used birdseye for her soundboard to give her […]

Maisy is a good example of a simple ukulele. She’s got a pretty quilted Maple soundboard which gives a nice bright voice and she uses re-entrant tuning. She has a comfort profile neck which is slightly bladed. It’s a bit thicker on the 1st string edge and tapers toward the 4th string edge. Very comfortable […]

Ukulele “Dusty” is our first concert size 5-string. With our unique sidemounted fifth tuner you might not notice she’s got two G-strings, but a quick strum and you’ll know! The high-G and low-G ringing together is terrific!             Specifications: Type: Keystone™, acoustic/electric Size: Concert Body: Poplar Soundboard: Western Red Cedar Neck: […]

“Buon Voyage” is our second travel-depth ukulele. We’re not actually sure why they call these ‘travel’ ukuleles. They are shallower in depth but they are the same length and width as standard so they take up nearly the same space. They are very comfortable to hold and play however. The depth is similar to our […]

  This Keystone™ tenor’s 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 nose and […]

  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 Cthukulele gets her name from H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulu, another creature not of this Earth. The Cthukulele was profiled […]

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 […]

A ‘puka’ in Hawaiian is a hole. We all remember the puka shell necklaces right? Well they were so named because the real puka shells had a natural hole or ‘puka’ in them. And this ukulele has an extra hole in the side. This hole serves two purposes. First to give more volume to the […]

Limu is a FatBottom semi-hollow concert/tenor hybrid. It has our new 9″ diameter fat bottom which puts its body at a touch longer than a tenor but it has a short neck. It uses a 16.1″ scale to tighten up the first position frets. This ukulele is made specifically to be held in the lap […]

Ancient Alaskan ukulele or clever hoax? An ancient stringed instrument was found this week on the banks of the Matanuska River in Alaska. Unusually high flows in the spring had cut deeply into the river banks exposing long buried strata and this incredible ukulele, dubbed “Matanuska” An area man who initially discovered “Matanuska” said, “Yes […]

Formula 1, the cutting edge, Black Box, Area 51…this is our current concept ukulele. It’s an asymmetric, semi-hollow, flattop, electric tenor that is built for speed. It’s executed in Padauk and Curly Maple giving it a nearly unbelieveable cardinal and gold color. On a machine like this the details are irrelevant, it’s all about the […]

Here she is…our latest acoustic tenor ukulele, Paloma.   Smile when you play that!™  

  Introducing ukulele “Connor”. Connor is our first “fatbottom” ukulele. He is a semi-hollow, all-Mahogany, flattop ukulele with a cutout. We call this design a “fatbottom” because the bottom or lower bout is, well… fat. It’s a full 9 inches across. We did this to maximize volume and sustain even though the body itself is […]

Ed is an example of what is fast becoming our most popular ukulele. He’s an acoustic/electric tenor in Poplar with a curly Maple soundboard.   Smile when you play that!™

Babaji…a showstopper. He’s a semi-hollow, archtop tenor with a simply stunning Padauk soundboard. The back and sides are carved from a single piece of curly Maple and the neck is also in curly Maple. He has a cantilevered fretboard, floating bridge and pivoting, hinged heel plate. Both the Padauk and Maple were exceedingly hard which […]

Deep Blue belongs to an avid diver and her custom painted back and sides salute that. The painting features a swirl of kelp, there’s a shadow of a shark and a manta ray, as well as a dive flag that bright red marker that always floats above scuba explorers.     Smile when you play […]

We actually don’t know the origin of Vivian’s name. It remains, to this day, a mystery. She has a stunning curly maple top  and she can really sing. We love the sound that a Maple sound board can make…just beautiful. And this Maple has incredible figure. Smile when you play that!™

The Endurance is a salute to its owner’s participation in ultra-endurance sports, in particular the Western States 100, a 100-mile footrace through the sierras. Yes, that is as crazy as it sounds. The painting includes the course profile around the sides, a mountainbike tire print and a running shoe print. This is a very personal […]

The “X” was an experiment. The back and sides are carved from a single block of quartersawn Mahogany and the soundboard comes from the same plank so the grain is continuous through the top and bottom. The cantilevered fretboard is above the soundboard like on a violin and the bridge floats. The strings attach to […]