- 25th
- May
- 2012
Customized “Kokeshi Doll Ukulele” (sadly his blog, KoiUkulele, appears to have been abandoned, last updated in 2009. He still posts on YouTube, however)
(via TrendDeLaCreme)
A Beginner's Ukulele Resource Kit
Handy links to learning the ukulele online.
- 9th
- May
- 2012
Royston Rascals’s Ukulele Toilet Seat
No comment.
- 26th
- January
- 2012
Ukulele Valentine Heart Box Papercraft
As promised the kit’s finished and posted! So print, cut, and glue stick your way into your uke-crazed sweetie’s heart with this sturdy little box. Fill it with chocolates, Jake Shimabukuro tickets, or last weekend’s oatmeal — they’ll not care as they’ll be busily cooing over your kind attentions. You, of course, will walk taller, look slimmer, and undoubtedly be recognized as a leader and quickly promoted to senior whatever-it-is-you-do-all-day just for having assembled this authentic, 100% accurate, playable mini-ukulele (that’s a lie and you know it — but it is a rather cute box).
(via PizzaByTheSlice)
- 18th
- December
- 2011
Tree arrived last night, receiving usual ornament hodgepodge, but most proud of the smattering of papercraft ukuleles (first posted paper uke template last year), which compliment quite smartly that Ukrainian egg, no?
- 10th
- November
- 2011
Stephen Sloan’s Chalkboard Ukulele!
What a tremendous idea:
…I’ve had this cheap ukulele I found at the swap meet… A quick trip to the hardware store and I was ready to go. I dismantled the little uke and gave it several coats of Rust-oleum Chalkboard paint. A trip to the toy store… two boxes of chalk… We’re off and running, I hope you like the results.
Simple scribbles to elaborate Dia de los Muertos & Halloween Jack-o-lele designs, psychedelia to Woody Guthrie… this uke’s surface is too inviting for even Jim “Ukulele by Ear” D’Ville (his site) and James Hill (his site) to resist.
Yet another clever “wish I’d thought of that” uke. Today it’s all about painted ukes. They’re easy, they’re cheap, they’re playable, and they’re on sale again for Christmas on Grizzly Industries: $22.95! (hint: replace those fishing line strings all kits come with… unless you’re doing an “Utterly Butterly Margarine Tub Uke” — which, of course, is also awesome)
(Source: ukulelemoustache)
- 16th
- October
- 2011
A Halloween “Spookulele”: Your Friendly Vampire Bat Uke
A while back Ben and I bought a couple ukulele kits from Grizzly Industrial. With typically high hopes we set about designing — and lo, did the summer quickly pass. It’s Fall, Halloween’s just around the corner, and I’d like to knock mine out, so I’d thought this vampire bat ukulele would look great. Ben, ever the stick in the mud, thinks picking bat wing splinters out of your armpit (or crotch) just might interfere with playing. A fair point.
Think I’ll just print a few of these out and make a Halloween mobile instead.
(via Pizza By The Slice)
- 21st
- August
- 2011
Make It — Then Play It! Build Your Own Banjolele, Boy’s Life, 1962
Liven up your parties and add zest to your campfire programs with songs accompanied by the brilliant tone of the banjolele, the newest of instruments.
Heck, still true nearly fifty years later. Though I’m doubting people request “I’ve Got Sixpense” as often as this article makes out. Hmmmmm, also not so sure how many 21st century kids have access to a band saw… :D
Regardless, it’s really great seeing these (Boy’s Life back-issues) available, via magic of Google books.
Boys’ Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.
- 7th
- August
- 2011
Chester Winowiecki plays a Tin Pan Banjo Ukr
Says BoingBoing’s Mark Frauenfelder:
I met Chester Winowiecki at Maker Faire Detroit… He makes cool stringed instruments out of pie pans and cookie tins. They sound great! I’ve asked him to write a pie pan banjo uke how to for MAKE [Magazine]. I can’t wait to make one myself.
