big tex blue

Ah, she is a beauty. Completed in June 2013, big tex was built with one of my favorite sorts of tins. This is my third concert scale ukulele using a Collin Street Bakery tin with the double Texas Bluebonnet on the lid, but this is the first and only one using the big ten inch tin. It’s got a loud voice and a loud neck tie strap.

• tin: 10 x 3 1/4 in.
• scale: 380 mm, 15 in.
• head to tail: 650 mm, 25 1/4 in.
• G .010, C .015, E .011, A .008
• maple neck
• cocobolo fret board
• silk neck tie strap

This instrument was snapped up by a resident of the great state of Texas as a tin wedding anniversary gift (that’s the 10th anniversary in case you were wondering). Thanks again D. Your purchase made all this fooling around so much more worth it.

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