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I made this ukulele in 2013.
It's made of cheap whitewood and has a solid body with a bolt-on neck.
Originally it had friction peg tuners, orange glitter paint, and a cheapo guitar pickup given to me by a uni housemate.
It has a single chickenhead knob for volume control.
There's no nut. Instead it has a zeroth fret and four screws to align the strings.
String spacing = 8mm at the nut and 12mm at the bridge.
Scale length = 432mm.
It's tuned to G-C-E-A with a low G.
I made some upgrades in 2021.
I reshaped the body to add arm and belly relief, replaced the pickup with a hot-rail humbucker, and swapped the friction pegs for machine heads.
I also added a tailpiece which acts as a whammy bar, with an arm made from an old fork.
The ukulele needed re-painting, so I used some hard wearing orange kitchen paint - no glitter this time.
