Our first uke

[rod]

Gday ppl,
Me and my sons cut up a piece of black-wood on Monday last week for a neck on a guitar I am in the process of building.I was not to happy with it, but glued it up hoping it might magically improve while in the clamps over night,but alas it did not,so I stuck it in the corner and laminated one up with Qld maple and Hairy oak instead.....The kids have been hovering around the shed annoying me since,so I came up with the brainwave to let them build a Uke with the neck!Here it is a week later and I have being working on it solidly since!
Anyway it is all but done with no plans,just a trip to the local music store with pen and ruler...I just summized that it would not need a truss rod, but now I am thinking maybe it should?........Thoughts please..

I would like to post some pics,but my camera pics are oversize, and I don't know how to get them on here.....

Thanks all......Rod.

[Puff]

Way to go mate!
If the kids are in you're on a winner
Stuff the truss rod - play slide

[Allen]

What size of uke are you building? Scale length?

No uke that I've seen would need a truss rod. The tension on the strings is at most around 50 ibs. for a Tenor Uke with high tension strings. They actually need to be built feather light to be responsive, and can stand a neck and that is incredibly thin compared to steel string instruments and a fret board that can range from 2.5 mm to 4mm thick at the very most.

If you are on a Mac then iPhoto will resize the photo's for you suitable for posting on the forum. On a PC then I'm out of touch but others will be able to help you out on that account. I think that John Maddison knows of a good freeware program for that platform.

[Dominic]

Hey, I found this resizer for windows 7. Gives you an option with a right click to resize. It will resize the original or make a copy and you can do custom sizes that work with this site. Simple.
Cheers
Dom
http://imageresizer.codeplex.com/

[John Maddison]

... I think that John Maddison knows of a good freeware program for that platform.

Irfanview allows you to re-size, sharpen, crop and colour|brightness|contrast-adjust images, amongst other things.