18 - Ukulele Builders, Luthiers and Manufactures: P

Greg Pacetti, My life has been about music and wood. I started playing the guitar when I was twelve years old and fell in love with it. In my twenties, I began working in wood as a carpenter, house builder, and cabinetmaker.

After falling in love with the ukulele during a trip to Hawaii, John & Pam Ramsey founded Palm Tree Ukuleles in 2005. John has been building guitars and mandolins for over 25 years, so making the switch to ukuleles was a natural transition.

Peavey Electronics, manufacturer of musical equipment, gear, accessories and just about anything else you can think of. Rock on!

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Handcrafted Ukulele Builder from Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Pelem Ukulele is a Handmade Ukulele brand hailing from an art town of Java named Yogyakarta. The name “Pelem’ came from Javanese language means ‘Mango’. Our earlier works mostly used Mango Woods. As the time goes by, we continued our work with various type of woods and materials including Teakwood, Mahogany, White Ash, Rosewood and Acacia.

Master luthiers, Bruce and Matt Petros, hand create resonant, rich, steel and nylon string guitars for the mature, discerning, fingerstyle player who is ready to own, and play, the very best.

Carbon Fiber Hybrid - Most carbon fiber ukuleles cost well over $1000. The Phoenix ukulele is more affordable with the same sound quality by making the body and soundboard out of carbon fiber, while the neck, fretboard, and bridge are made of specialty woods.

R.E. Phillips has been building metal and wood bodies resonator guitars since 1992. Ron has built many resonators for players of the Country Blues genre, including John Jackson, John Cephas, Del Rey, Steve James, Robert Lowery, Andra Faye, Annie Raines, Cathy Fink and others. All of Ron’s designs are inspired by his interest in the Art Deco period.

We design cool ukuleles, also share all the cool staff about ukuleles.

Pickard Acoustics offers a wide range of handbuilt steel-strung guitars, mandolin family instruments, banjos and Nylgut®-strung ukuleles.

I build handmade guitars and ukuleles from quality tone woods as well as found objects and recycled materials. Making unique instruments with great tone and individual appearance.

Pohaku Ukuleles are built by master craftsman Peter Hurney who began creating his Pohaku brand ukuleles in Hawaii in the early 90’s. This one person shop, now in Berkeley, California, produces a limited number of high quality instruments which have found their way all over the globe and are enjoyed by prominent musicians worldwide.

My name is Dennis Lake and here you‘ll find photos and information on the Custom ‘Ukulele and Guitars I make at my home shop here on the southern slope of Mauna Loa, in the remote and rural Ka‘u District of the Big Island of Hawai‘i. This is a very small shop. I work alone, with an occasional assist from a talented friend. Since all of my instruments are individually made, and most are custom orders, each is really “one of a kind”.

"Pono" instruments are professionally designed and handcrafted by the "Ko'olau Guitar and `Ukulele Company" and on the Island of Java, with final adjustments and set-up on the Island of Oahu, Hawaii.

Andy Powers grew up in a music-loving family in Oceanside, California. At the age of five Andy, the son of a carpenter and his artist wife, had his first workbench and shortly thereafter began playing piano. Andy took up playing the guitar when he was eight. In a house where musical instruments, tools and wood were all readily available, curiosity got the better of him and he began his first attempts at building guitars before the age of ten. With design and sound refinement the instruments began to improve tremendously, and Andy began selling the instruments to customers while he was still a teenager. Having been encouraged by his parents to pursue the arts, he began to explore the world of traditional inlayed art, using his instruments as a canvas.

"Pukana La" means sunrise in Hawaiian. Sweeping throughthe strings of Pukana La Ukulele, and feel the warm and sunny spirit shines upon you like the morning sun. "PUKA", likewise, is designed to share an image of rising and opening.

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Tom Russell is one-man shop, share a journey in building one-of-a-kind ukuleles. The name "Pau Hana Ukuleles" reflects the easy going nature of the ukulele. "Pau Hana", meaning "done work" or "after work" in Hawaiian, evokes the relaxing feeling when playing the ukulele after a trying day.