“Nebula” Claro Walnut and Red Cedar
Tenor
For Sale at Island Bazaar in Huntington Beach, CA
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I'm calling this tenor "Nebula" because the center of the walnut headstock kind of looks a gas cloud in the middle of the grain of the walnut. Yes, I know I'm weird.
The top is made from a piece of Western Red Cedar that is everything you would expect cedar to be, nice clear tone with a lot of projection.
The accent woods are big leaf maple burl. The neck is Honduran mahogany with a carbon bar for reinforcement.
The fingerboard, bridge and binding are East Indian rosewood.
Since the cedar is a little bland, I spruced up the front a little by making a walnut mosaic rosette.
The back and sides are Claro Walnut. Claro Walnut is a little rare in nature, but commercial walnut growers use it for rootstock for English walnuts, so the Claro is available quite often when California and Oregon growers rotate out their old non producing trees.
It makes a great tone wood and is very pretty. I has a little bit of a red tone while black walnut has a bit of a grey cast to it.
As always this uke has a sound side port that allows the player to hear the same sound as the audience.
The sides are pretty crazy.