( from Lardy’s Ukulele database ) - Husband and Wife luthier team Tomas and Katherine Ceniza started this brand in 1986. They were based in the Waianae Mountains of Hawaii with Tomas doing the woodwork and Katherine doing the polishing and finishing. Katherine died in 2009 and Tomas, if he is still alive doesn’t appear to still be producing Ukuleles. However Tomas’s nephew Jerome Werner who started with the Cenizas does; under the brand name Valley Made