Martin Employee Tenor: Ukulele Window Shopping

Martin, being a very generous company, allowed employees near retirement to come in on their days off and build an instrument of their own choosing. While it was a bit stingy not to let them do it in their work-hours, it has produced a healthy number of collectable ukuleles. This week there’s this 1947 Spruce-top Martin Tenor. It’s being sold by Ukulelefriend so the description is well worth a read (just don’t look at the price).

With all the hype surrounding Eddie Vedder’s uke album, I hope some will spillover onto his luthier of choice: Eric DeVine. Who makes handsome ukuleles like this.

I think this ukulele is too camp to have been made in ‘late 1800’s to early 1900’s’.

8-string pineapple from Kapono

The solid-body Kala UBasses are around and I’m quite taken by the Skyline Red model.

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