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what happens when you let your 11 year old loose on a colour palette. This concert ukulele was the effort of my daughter and myself. She was mostly design consultant but did do a bit of sanding. Fun to build and finish and fun to play!

I didn't really plan for a black top but discovered a good reason to maybe go a little easy with the power sanders on the top once the rosette is in. Just prior to finishing I sanded through part of the Black/Maple/Black on it and it was either paint it or re top it. Obvious choice.




It's a Maple back sides and neck and maple burl for rosette. I used these dyes https://www.woodessence.com/ColorFX-Dye ... s-C12.aspx in alcohol on bare wood. I thought purple would be quite fetching but was over ruled. She decided on blue and green and I threw in a little black for the heck of it. I'm very happy with the results of using this product on bare wood. This was pretty much an experiment as I have little experience using dyes and none using an airbrush. I ended up with this airbrush.http://www.airbrushoutlet.com/hset.html. I liked the fact that it came with 3 tips. The smallest one worked great for the dye that I used and I'm hoping the larger tips will work well for dyed lacquer.
Thank you to the people that took time to talk about dyes and airbrushes.

Happy Labour Day. Don't work too hard.

Cheers,
Danny

I let a 3 year old loose on a $23 Grizzly Uke kit, hoping to keep her interested so when she is older she will still want to build stuff with dad.
Any other thoughts on working with your daughter on this type of project? I just started teaching a woodshop class for 6th-12th graders, and would love some input on working with kids.
Nice save on the top, great looking burst on the back, I love the subtlety of the black on the edges.
Rob

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Hey that is one sharp uke Danny!

Love the dye job on the maple,
Joe

Great looking Uke. I like that dyed burl rosette alot...I might have to steal that idea
The colors on the back look cool too. Who needs another brown uke??