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.

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  • OptimistPrime@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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    1 year ago

    Thanks for sharing the resource! The documentation people like you share is very helpful in making these projects less daunting

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    1 year ago

    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

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      1 year ago

      Good point, it def splits the difference between tourist uke and quality uke. ANd at $34 you can’t hardly argue.