Recently my daughter has started getting into playing the ukulele, I ran across the instructables post and it seemed like a pretty straightforward project, so I went for it. Video of it playing (terribly) in the substack post. I hope you all enjoy the read.
Cool stuff, but seriously consider getting your daughter a decent wooden one if she keeps being interested. They don’t have to cost hundreds of dollars but something around $50 will give you a decent beginners instrument. From my experience plastic ukuleles sound terrible and are somehow not as easy to play.
Thank you, she does have a pretty decent one, this project was mostly just for fun and now she can choose between a pretty one and a normal one.
Nice, now play an apology song on it!
Sounds better than I expected
That was my thoughts. It’s got a little twangy to it, and if you play it next to a normal uke there is a definite difference, but for what it is, I was really happy.
I expected it to snare like a cracked bowl, but it really doesn’t at all.
Thanks for sharing the resource! The documentation people like you share is very helpful in making these projects less daunting
My pleasure, it was a fun project.
The ukulele actually sounds quite okay, and it looks like you had fun making this. 🤘
I have a plastic backed one with a wood front that has solid tone so I imagine this could work
after reading and listening to the result it sounds better than the wood type that tourists buy on the cheap
Good point, it def splits the difference between tourist uke and quality uke. ANd at $34 you can’t hardly argue.
