Most of my loyal blog followers know that Barbara and our Granddaughter Clara and I take ukulele lessons and our Granddaughter Julia takes guitar lessons from Pat every Friday for an hour that usually goes for 2 hours. We love it. Pat has been playing the ukulele for 50 years and he is good at it, very, very good at it. He is also a very good teacher. Well, besides playing and teaching he also makes custom instruments to order. He has made over 40 and has several orders that he is trying to fill. He builds them completely from scratch. He does it all, starting with cutting up raw lumber. Some of the many processes are very difficult to do if you only have two hands, that is all Pat is equipped with. So he asked me if I would help him from time to time and for that he will teach me how to make a ukulele. We had our first session yesterday. This is a picture of Pat bending the sides. This is a piece of Koa, 3 inches wide and 20 inches long about 1/8 thick. It is bent wet. More to come, stay tuned .
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