DIY Ukulele: Links & Resources

Additional Links Related to Building Ukuleles

2026/2027: These page have not been visited in a long, long time (since 2005) and many links are dead and would need a bit of detective work to seem if they have simply moved or are lost.

Lets use know if you would like anything added.

• Stagg Electric Uke Hack : Fitting a pickup to a cheap uke
• Ukulele Rescue: Fixing a crack howto—Koa sound box and cedar neck Pete Howlett kit . Repair a simple cracked open seam with hot hide glue using percussion technique. Will work for any wooden string instrument. And, yes, I misspoke and should have said "the two halves of the top" or more correctly "the two halves of the back" ...in any event: it made a sickening noise when it suddenly started to crack apart shortly after I rested it on a shelf. It was a new instrument and was probably constructed in a high-humidity shop somewhere in the tropics.
• The building of my tenor ukulele... by Jerry Foster - Koa sound box and cedar neck Pete Howlett kit
• My Summer 2005 Project: - An All-Koa Tenor Ukulele
• Notes from an Amateur Luthier...: - Building A Concert Ukulele (by Kathy Matsushita) —This is a great site with lots of information on building instruments.
• LUTHERIE: The art of stringed instrument building—Building a Concert Ukulele (by Al McWhorter)
• Sam Nihipali & Daniel Yuen's detailed instructions on making your own ukulele - link —Very nice site with lots of information and images on building ukes. Al chronicles his building of a concert uke.
• My New Adventures in Musical Instrument Building
• My Homemade Ukulele - Gary Anwyl's web page of building a soprano ukulele.
• Key Strummers Ukulele Building no. 1 and no. 2 Photo Albums
• Ukulele Building Series (Pegasus Guitars)
• Building a Ukulele
• Uk Ukee —Tips & Tools for the DIY Ukulele Luthier—This is a great resources for building ukuleles. There is a also a store for Lutherie supplies – all ukulele centric.