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The Complete Ukulele Guide to the Moustaches of the World

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This Complete Guide features complete coverage of the 25 major moustache groups, enabling you to instantly identify any moustache you spot without even putting down your ukulele. 

The Ukulele Guide includes not only the standard moustache groups, but also exotic and endangered moustaches like the Shirley Temple and the LARP-stache. Recently cultivated strains of moustache such as the Octopus also feature prominently, and the headstock is graced with an inspiring moustache quote, sure to please any moustache fancier.

You may be asking yourself at this point you have survived without such a practical object, and what you can do to obtain one. While the ukulele depicted here has been SOLD to a most worthy buyer, we may consider the creation of a few additional, supplemental moustache guides for true fanciers of fantastic facial hair.

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Banjo Uke

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Circa-1920s Banjo Ukulele of dubious original quality, carefully repaired and restored. Reverse hand-painted chicken on natural skin banjo head. Now that we've added Gotoh geared uke tuners and Nylgut strings, it sounds quite nice.

This one is not for sale since it gets played here more or less every day!



Here is a recording of Big Scioty on banjo uke and fiddle that involves this instrument:

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Five-String Box Fiddle

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Custom-made five string box fiddle. The box is red cedar, the neck is maple, mahogany, and walnut. The back features a stylish inlaid rooster.
Curious how it sounds? Here is a recording on YouTube.

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Plywood Box Fiddle

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Four-string box fiddle with a body of birch plywood. Engraving based on our hand drawings. The neck is salvaged from an un-repairable eBay special.

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Violin Tailpieces with Decorative Inlay

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A few examples of our inlay work, these tailpieces add a subtle touch of color to the instruments they decorate. Working from one of our original drawings, we precisely cut tiny pieces of veneer and painstakingly inlay them by hand. The result is carefully sanded and polished to bring out the natural glow of the wood.

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