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This is my latest big project. Having just recently acquired some tone wood of an appropriate size I am starting to build some instruments. This is an original design for a X braced soprano ukulele that will have a customized longer scale length.
So whats the big deal?
well..
The X bracing is a great deal more energy efficient than the standard latter bracing typically used in ukuleles and will be more stable over time.
The longer scale length (I had to do my own fret calculations for this) will increase tension on the strings and therefor the top making it louder and hopefully giving it better tone.
What you see here in the pic is a 1-1 scale drawing of the uke and all its parts. From this I am able to determine some rather important details like:
Were should the braces be attached?
where should the bridge go?
how far can the tongue come over the soundboard?
where should I put the sound hole and how big can I make it?
Once you have the answers to all these questions you can trace over the scale drawing and use the tracings to make templates that will later be used to make molds and later for actually putting reference marks on the ukulele parts. For my template material i am using a Kellogg's frosted flakes box :3
I will be setting up a flicker gallery so that those that wish to keep up with this project can follow along and those who don't wish to have their in boxes spammed with tones of boring luthiery tutorials can live in peace and harmony and keep enjoying the terrible music I upload:)
On a side note, Why is that fire fox recognizes when i misspell "poke ball" but it doesn't believe that "luthier" is a word?
So whats the big deal?
well..
The X bracing is a great deal more energy efficient than the standard latter bracing typically used in ukuleles and will be more stable over time.
The longer scale length (I had to do my own fret calculations for this) will increase tension on the strings and therefor the top making it louder and hopefully giving it better tone.
What you see here in the pic is a 1-1 scale drawing of the uke and all its parts. From this I am able to determine some rather important details like:
Were should the braces be attached?
where should the bridge go?
how far can the tongue come over the soundboard?
where should I put the sound hole and how big can I make it?
Once you have the answers to all these questions you can trace over the scale drawing and use the tracings to make templates that will later be used to make molds and later for actually putting reference marks on the ukulele parts. For my template material i am using a Kellogg's frosted flakes box :3
I will be setting up a flicker gallery so that those that wish to keep up with this project can follow along and those who don't wish to have their in boxes spammed with tones of boring luthiery tutorials can live in peace and harmony and keep enjoying the terrible music I upload:)
On a side note, Why is that fire fox recognizes when i misspell "poke ball" but it doesn't believe that "luthier" is a word?
Category Designs / Tutorials
Species Vulpine (Other)
Size 1280 x 960px
File Size 163 kB
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