Ordering An Instrument
My work schedule does not allow me to take many orders. At 77 years of age, I can no longer produce at the rate I could in the past and I'm spending a lot of my time trying to improve the designs that I've worked with for years. Occasionally, but not often, I can take a guitar or uke order. Those orders will normally take at least a year to complete.
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I do all my own work, often including cutting the raw wood from the forest source when possible. Increasingly I try to use as little imported woods as possible. Whenever I can, I substitute Hawaii grown woods for imported woods. Prices are determined by the materials and amount of work the order takes. There is no difference between the price in sizes of ukuleles or sizes of guitars, with the exception of archtop instruments. All sizes of ukuleles take about the same time to make and there is little difference in the cost of materials. The same goes for different sizes of guitars.
A rough guide to my pricing follows:
Ukuleles-All sizes. Natural Series $1800.00+
Artist Series $2100.00+
Archtop ukuleles-All sizes $4000.00+
Acoustic steel string guitars- All sizes $4500.00+
Archtop guitars $7,000.00+
Classical and Flamenco guitars-All sizes $4,500.00+
6 String Lap Steel guitars- $1300.00+
My work schedule does not allow me to take many orders. At 77 years of age, I can no longer produce at the rate I could in the past and I'm spending a lot of my time trying to improve the designs that I've worked with for years. Occasionally, but not often, I can take a guitar or uke order. Those orders will normally take at least a year to complete.
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I do all my own work, often including cutting the raw wood from the forest source when possible. Increasingly I try to use as little imported woods as possible. Whenever I can, I substitute Hawaii grown woods for imported woods. Prices are determined by the materials and amount of work the order takes. There is no difference between the price in sizes of ukuleles or sizes of guitars, with the exception of archtop instruments. All sizes of ukuleles take about the same time to make and there is little difference in the cost of materials. The same goes for different sizes of guitars.
A rough guide to my pricing follows:
Ukuleles-All sizes. Natural Series $1800.00+
Artist Series $2100.00+
Archtop ukuleles-All sizes $4000.00+
Acoustic steel string guitars- All sizes $4500.00+
Archtop guitars $7,000.00+
Classical and Flamenco guitars-All sizes $4,500.00+
6 String Lap Steel guitars- $1300.00+