James contacted me about making a custom tenor guitar/baritone ukulele with steel strings. James is a working professional musician and arborist. He also builds instruments out of tin cans.

James sent me some stones to incorporate in the build. As seen in the pictures. It was great working with James and I appreciated the video he created.

Deep ShellBack Baritone Ukulele

Tuning DGBE (Standard) Steel string

Scale length 22"

Nut width 32mm

Western red Cedar top

Walnut veneer back

Maple and Spanish Cedar neck

Ebony fingerboard

Ebony and Spalted Maple tailpiece and headstock

Walnut burl pickguard and neck joint

Stones provided by customers

Ebony bridge (Base)

Gold Evo frets

Radius fingerboard (12)

Copper side fret markers.

Branch inlays

Graphite truss rod in neck

Mi-Si trio active pickup.

Strap buttons

Gotoh 510 mini tuners.

Hand carved tuner buttons

Buffalo bone nut and bridge

Handmade case from recycled cardboard

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