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Quilted Maple
Selmer/Maccaferri Tenor Ukulele
Commissioned by Bob Willis
(Melbourne, Australia)
The Timbers Selected......
Soundboard - Adirondack Spruce.
Back and Sides - Quilted American Maple....
Body Bindings and Backstrip - Ringed Gidgee....
Neck - Curly American Maple...
Fretboard, Bridge & Headstock - Ebony...


SOMETHING DIFFERENT!
A Gypsy Jazz Tenor Ukulele
Being built in the likeness of a Maccaferri Gypsy Jazz Guitar.
  • Body Shape with distinctive Cutaway
  • Grande Bouche... (‘D’ soundhole with traditional Rosette)
  • Canted/Bent Soundboard just below the Bridge
  • Maccaferri Ladder Bracing Design
  • 3 piece Floating Moustache Bridge with Hand Made Brass Tailpiece
  • Longer Scale length (483mm, regular Tenor is 432mm)
  • 14 frets to the body
  • Fretboard with Zero Fret and 26 Frets
  • Snake Head shaped Open Headstock