11/25/2019 0 Comments idea: violin slitsAs soon as I completed the basic Sq'Uke and started playing it, I realized that wasn't sounding as good as I would have liked. I started looking at how violins are made and why they were so much louder than a ukulele. Most historians believe that the f-holes produce up to 2 times the volume. So, I decided to take my newly built Sq'Uke and cut slits in. I didn't want to cut the soundboard, as it is rather small to begin with, so I cut them in the sides just under the soundboard. The sound improvement was huge!! I did need to add reinforcement to the sides because the soundboard was bending but that didn't affect the tone.
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AuthorI've been making ukuleles for almost a year now. I've garnered inspiration from all over the internet and thought it was time to give back. From everything I've read, the hardest thing about building a stringed instrument (guitar, violin, ukulele) is thicknessing the top. Although I've done that in some of my earlier builds, I wanted to find an easier more efficient way of building. Supposedly, we are running out of good tone wood and that will mean instruments will become mroe expensive. Thicknessing a soundboard is inherently wasteful as you need to take a thick piece of wood and remove almost half of it. Not to mention the cutting and the size of the saw blade. Archives
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