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Michael Smith
 Post subject: The Pineapple
PostPosted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 6:44 pm 
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I'm trying to come up with a pineapple theme tenor ukulele. I am not shaping the body like a pineapple. I will do a pineapple shape head stock. I was thinking I could route very shallow v groves in the top in a pineapple diamond pattern that I would fill with z-poxy, Then I started thinking that if I had to do any sanding I could have problems with this method. I thought of using a inlay of the same type of wood. I don't want it to be over powering.

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John Killin
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You could cut the sound hole like a pineapple. I'm thinking severl v shapes spaced to look like the body of the pineapple. Then a more solid area for the top.
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Jeff Highland
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To work properly, a ukulele soundboard has to be vey thin.
IMO inlaying it will weaken the soundboard and is a bad idea
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Jason
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Maybe some light/shallow laser engraving?

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Ditto Jeff on the inlay idea. The rosette is scary enough
How about a wood burning iron? You could do that after the final sanding
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