{"id":458,"date":"2018-08-29T09:52:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T07:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muttcrew.net\/?page_id=458"},"modified":"2025-10-03T22:00:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T20:00:31","slug":"pauline","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/muttcrew.net\/?page_id=458","title":{"rendered":"\u00abPauline\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>&#8222;Pauline has been a close companion for years. She has accompanied me far and wide, and provided countless hours of musical fulfillment.&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>&#8222;OK, dad, enough with the poetry &#8211; get on with it&#8230;&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>&#8222;Right, sorry&#8230;&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is a tenor ukulele with cutaway in cedar\/walnut, which is a tried and trusted wood combination in guitar making.\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Years ago, when I began building ukuleles, the use of softwood tops was not common or readily accepted. People seemed to think that koa and mahogany were the only &#8222;real&#8220; ukulele woods, and if you wanted to try something different, then the uke still had to have the back, sides and top out of the same wood&#8230;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I was, and still am, convinced that cedar and spruce offed enormous potential. So I ignored the feedback &#8211;<em>&#8222;ukuleles are different, they&#8217;re not supposed to be miniature guitars, never change a winning system, copy the masters, learn from the masters or you will never learn to build real ukuleles&#8230;&#8220;<\/em> &#8211; and went my own way.<\/p>\n<p>And here are the details:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Top: western red cedar<\/li>\n<li>Back and sides: black walnut<\/li>\n<li>Neck: alder<\/li>\n<li>Head plate: walnut and flamed maple with MOP dots<\/li>\n<li>Fretboard and bridge: rosewood (IRW) with MOP dots, 16&#8243; radius<\/li>\n<li>Rosette and tail graft: flamed maple<\/li>\n<li>Binding: ivoroid<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-458 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/muttcrew.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1030836_m.jpg' title=\"Pauline - heel and cutaway\" data-rl_title=\"Pauline - heel and cutaway\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/muttcrew.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1030836_m-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-316\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-316'>\n\t\t\t\tPauline &#8211; heel and cutaway\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/muttcrew.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1030840_m.jpg' title=\"Pauline . maple rosette\" data-rl_title=\"Pauline . maple rosette\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/muttcrew.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1030840_m-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-319\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-319'>\n\t\t\t\tPauline . maple rosette\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/muttcrew.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1030834_m.jpg' title=\"Pauline - tenor ukulele with cutaway\" data-rl_title=\"Pauline - tenor ukulele with cutaway\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/muttcrew.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1030834_m-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-315\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-315'>\n\t\t\t\tPauline &#8211; tenor ukulele with cutaway\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/muttcrew.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1030839_m.jpg' title=\"Pauline - maple tail graft\" data-rl_title=\"Pauline - maple tail graft\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/muttcrew.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1030839_m-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-318\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-318'>\n\t\t\t\tPauline &#8211; maple tail graft\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/muttcrew.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1030838_m.jpg' title=\"Pauline - walnut back and sides\" data-rl_title=\"Pauline - walnut back and sides\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/muttcrew.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1030838_m-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-317\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-317'>\n\t\t\t\tPauline &#8211; walnut back and sides\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/muttcrew.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1030833_m.jpg' title=\"Pauline - maple and walnut headplate with MOP dots\" data-rl_title=\"Pauline - maple and walnut headplate with MOP dots\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/muttcrew.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1030833_m-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-314\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-314'>\n\t\t\t\tPauline &#8211; maple and walnut headplate with MOP dots\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8222;Pauline has been a close companion for years. She has accompanied me far and wide, and provided countless hours of musical fulfillment.&#8220; &#8222;OK, dad, enough with the poetry &#8211; get on with it&#8230;&#8220; &#8222;Right, sorry&#8230;&#8220; This is a tenor ukulele with cutaway in cedar\/walnut, which is a tried and trusted wood combination in guitar making.\u00a0Years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":16,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-458","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/muttcrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/muttcrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/muttcrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muttcrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muttcrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/muttcrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"http:\/\/muttcrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/458\/revisions\/487"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muttcrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/muttcrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}