" Not only is the instrument beautiful to look at, it produces a beuatiful, balanced tone with an incredible amout of sustain and that's out of the box! This uke will be a tone cannon when it opens up!"

- Evan S.

 

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Scheduled Start Date: Mar 05, 2014
Completed: Apr 14, 2014

  • Curly Myrtle back & sides

  • Curly Redwood top

  • Bloodwood body binding

  • Black wood rosette

  • Hand-rubbed oil finish

  • Radiused Ebony fretboard with Bloodwood binding & Abalone markers

  • Mahogany neck

  • Geared machine head tuners with black buttons

  • Ebony & Maple Signature Headplate

  • K&K Twin Spot pickup

Hand-crafted in the USA by Gordon & Char Mayer and Aaron Keim. Each instrument is numbered & signed.

 

Wood Grade: Classic
Wood Availability: This wood species is available. Specific wood sets vary.

Cascade Series Wood Cascade Series Wood

 

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Evan S.

Sarabande
Build Schedule
 

Date

 

  

1

Mar 4

bend sides, glue in neck block

2

Mar 9

glue in tail block

3

Mar 10

rout & glue-in end graft, kerf top edge, kerf bottom edge, brace back

4

Mar 11

brace top, glue back onto sides

5

Mar 17

glue top onto sides, prep fretboard & neck

6

Mar 18

clean up body, rout dovetail, drill tuner holes, glue fretboard onto neck, rout binding channels, glue in top binding

7

Mar 19

shape neck, dress fret ends, glue in back binding

8

Mar 19

prep for finish, glue neck/fretboard onto body

9

Mar 23

first coat of oil

10

Mar 24

second coat of oil

11

Apr 6

third coat of oil

12

Apr 7

fourth coat of oil

13

Apr 8

apply lemon oil, glue on bridge

14

Apr 14

make saddle, (put in pickup, if any), cut nut, final fretwork, put in tuners, put on strings
Original Wood Set