"Chocolate Swirl" Oregon Myrtle Tenor
On Sale now at Hale Ukulele in San Diego, CA
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This ukulele was built for Hale Ukulele in San Diego. I'm calling this one chocolate swirl because it has a cool mix of dark and light browns.
Many thanks to Vince at Pacific Coast Woods for this beautiful set of myrtle.
It sounds great too.
I did something a little different on this uke. Because the side, were light on top and dark on the bottom, I arranged the top to be light on the edge and the back to be dark on the edge.
The accents are from a nice big leaf maple burl. Ric wanted a MiSi under saddle pickup on this on, so I obliged.​
The neck is Spanish Cedar, which neither Spanish nor Cedar. It is very closely related to mahogany and is Central America and the Caribbean. This neck includes a carbon reinforcement rod.
The sides are two toned and match the top and back. The binding, fretboard and bridge are East Indian rosewood and the rosette is curly maple.
The headstock is the same curly myrtle as the top.
The tuners are gold Gotoh Interplanetary tuners.
Strings are a Pepe Romero wound low g string with custom high carbon fluorocarbon strings.
It is no secret that Myrtle is my favorite tone wood. It works relatively easily (and has a spicy smell), it comes in a huge variety of colors, patterns and curls, but most importantly it sounds great.
Out of over 60 ukuleles I have produced, 3 of my top 5 favorites are Myrtle tenors.