I love building for a customer who is both a friend and an artist I admire. But, I have to admit it can create extra pressure and anxiety as well. It all combines to create an interesting emotional texture for the build process. It’s all just…deeper. But that’s what we want from art, something deeper. So I’ll let this one go to Avery Hill and see what magic she creates with it.

The top is some figured Cedar salvaged from a water tank on Vashon Island. It was cut well over 100 years ago and will now begin its third life as an ukulele. The neck is Fir salvaged from a floor joist. The rest is Walnut that I milled from a stump at Zena Forest Products in Salem. Cedar and Walnut are a standard combo for us. It has a loud, deep and rich sound with a breathy attack.