Russell's Custom Curly Oregon Myrtle Tenor
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This ukulele was built for my good friend Russell, who lives in New Brunswick, Canada, which is about as far away from me as possible and still be in North America.
This set has been in my collection for a couple years. I've been saving it for a special build. I'm glad he chose this set.
Many thanks to Vince at Pacific Coast Woods for this beautiful set of myrtle.
It sounds great too.
There is a lot going on on this back. The colors and the wavy vertical stripes are very nice, then add that amazing curl and Wow!
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The center stripe is East Indian rosewood that matches the binding.
The accents are golden brown amboyna burl.
We felt the gold Gotoh interplanetary tuners went better with this uke than the black ones.
The neck is White Limba (aka - Korean) with a carbon reinforcement rod. Limba has a density very similar to mahogany, but the colors match better for myrtle and mango ukes in my opinion.
Top is really pretty and has a wonderful warmth to its tone. The rosette is East Indian rosewood, that matches the fretboard, bridge and binding.
The headstock is the same curly myrtle as the top.
Strings are custom high carbon fluorocarbon strings. We went with a high G instead of my usual low G because Russell is a guitarist and we wanted to give him a different sound.
