Luna Ukulele

Luna have been making guitars since 2005 and are one of the few guitar companies started and headed by a woman, Yvonne de Villiers. Villiers started out as a designer and stained-glass artist. Which might explain the Luna ukulele's individual and 'love it or hate it' look (you might have guess from that comment, I'm in the hate-it camp).

The website is heavier on symbolism than it is on technical specifications, but I think all their ukes are laminated.

At this stage they have six models. At the top end there are the tenor and concert High Tide ukuleles. In the middle are the Floral and Dolphin designs (both concert size) and the cheapest are the tattoo (a soprano pineapple ukulele) and the Honu (not to be confused with lHonu ukuleles).

It's early days, so there's no word yet on whether their ukes are any good but their guitars boast endorsements from Jill Sobule, Paz Lenchantin (Perfect Circle, Zwan) and KT Tunstall.

On eBay

On Video

I haven't seen any videos of Luna ukuleles, so here's a demonstartion of one of their guitars to give you some idea of what they're about (that's not Papyrus they're using, is it?)