This is for our longtime customer, Jennifer. The Walnut is from a piece of furniture her dad built many years ago, but was no longer functional. I used it for the back, sides, fretboard, headplate and bridge, and boy is it beautiful! The top is some Yellow Cedar I salvaged from my neighbor’s shop and the neck is salvaged Cypress from an old factory. The rope sound hole binding and endgraft are some classy details to pull it all together.

“This is the soprano of my dreams! This little ukulele truly has it all - the featherweight lightness of a vintage soprano but the playability and functionality that those vintage sopranos lack. The sound is amazing as it has all the sparkle and charm that is expected of a soprano, but also sustain and a maturity and depth that is uncommon in sopranos. I am so pleased you decided to offer sopranos since it is rare to find a luthier who will make them at all, let alone make such fantastic sopranos. You have mentioned the challenge of building for a repeat customer and you absolutely achieved that with this ukulele because you couldn’t have pleased me more. I wish my dad could see what the walnut he purchased for his high school woodshop project became … I know he would have loved it. Thank you for taking on this project and giving me a reminder of him I can hold every day and use to bring music into the world.
- J. L. ”