Learning Ukulele with Curt
DIY Ukulele: Luthier Tools
Resources for the tools and jigs to build that great ukulele.
6 July 2022
DVD Ukulele Instruction
My personal recommendation would be the Mya-Moé How To Build a Ukulele Kit DVD available at StewMac. If there video is anything like the building and only Unscripted series you know Gordon knows his stuff. I'll be getting this DVD and I'm not even going to building a ukulele.
Gordon and Char Mayer are the husband and wife team behind Mya-Moé ukuleles. Their handcrafted instruments are renowned for tone and playability. This DVD includes valuable insights and techniques practiced at Mya-Moé.
Atelier Tomi Strings
Twenty years of living in British Columbia, Canada expanded my horizons, discovering many ways of working in wood while pursuing a lifelong joy of playing stringed instruments and a passion for guitar-building. Since moving to the USA, I’ve taken inspiration from the vast selection of quality local hardwoods available for construction of stringed instruments, furniture and chairs.
Peter Howlett
A prophetic photograph of me age 4 used to form the background, Bowman style, to my labels. Clutching my plastic Woolworth‘s ukulele, standing in the tartan kilt of my mother’s Scottish clan, in front of the wall my dad built, is a constant reminder that I really was born to do this job! My whole philosophy is one of care in the selection of materials and attention to detail. I learned these qualities from my toolmaker father whose exacting eye taught me to take notice of the small things. I remember when our neighbors painted their houses; it took a couple of days with a gallon can of Dulux. It always needed re-doing a couple of years later. Dad took a week applying 3 coats of Mangers lead based oil paint over 2 coats of red lead primer. He only did it once. It lasted years.