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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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Nice, now play an apology song on it!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds better than I expected

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I expected it to snare like a cracked bowl, but it really doesn't at all.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

My pleasure, it was a fun project.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The ukulele actually sounds quite okay, and it looks like you had fun making this. 🤘

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Ukulele? Mekulele? Ourkulele!

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