Dave's Extravagant Ukuleles
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I am a long-time carpenter and custom furniture maker who started making ukes in 2016, and it is now my "retirement job"--also a sort of obsession, and what I consider to be my true vocation. In various art and craft activities over the years, I have always gotten off on the creative process of designing and building things. I have found that making alternative ukes offers great scope for this creative process--and the big bonus at the end is that the product produces MUSIC. It seems like a kind of magic.
I took up the uke many years ago, like so many millions of others, as a ready and rewarding way of enjoying musical performance. I am a casual player at best, yet I never tire of learning new songs on the uke and happily singing and strumming away. And this is still the case even as most of my enthusiasm and energies on the ukulele front are now directed toward the building. At this point I have built well over 100 ukuleles.
FOR MORE INFO on Dave's Extravagant Ukuleles, check out my FB uke page by that name. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100027943045229 I also have a blog that includes my "Alt Uke Manifesto" and other essays on the alt uke phenomenon within the Ukulele Movement. https://altuke.blogspot.com/?zx=847ffe8cca4aeb37
