This is my second instrument for my Kingdom Era Ukulele project, made possible by a grant from Mortise & Tenon magazine. For this project I went to Hawaii and studied instruments from the 1880-1890’s, built by the three original Portuguese builders. This instrument, the Rajao, is the larger five string ancestor of the ukulele. I used only appropriate hand tools, traditional methods and the same materials as the original builders for this instrument. It is constructed with hot hide glue and finished with shellac and wax. I hope in the future to build more instruments inspired by this design for customers. It has been fun, interesting, challenging and humbling to learn about this subject and I can’t wait to do keep going. Thanks to Mortise & Tenon, Shawn from the Honoka’upu collection and the Bishop Museum for their support.