First stop yesterday morning was to our print shop to discuss the laser work that the ukulele will need. Jason Oshiro our graphic designer did a super job coming up with a design for a side port ukulele. However while I was there another idea popped into my head.
Got Guy Fo to convert a drawing of the plans for the Hokule'a into AutoCAD format so that we could manipulate the design.
Sandy Sanpei our commercial art lead professor came and gave us her input to the design and she came up with some fantastic ideas.
Mike Jennings our AEC and resident AutoCAD guru found the program we needed to convert the design to AutoCAD format. And after all this planning and collaboration between faculty members, the laser broke. Murphy's Law...
Back to the building, I finished bending with no cracks or breaks.
Here we are in the mold
Laying out the head block and tail block
Laying out the bracing pattern
Bracing glued on and ready to carve.
Carving
Carving done
Test fit, cleaned up the bracing, finished the bracing for the back and boxed the ukulele up.
Ready for trimming. The journey continues tomorrow, routing, binding, sanding, neck, fingerboard is the goal for the day.
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