“Jakarta Punk: The Marjinal Story” – UPDATE

It’s common knowledge that Electric Ukulele Land endorses and supports punk band Marjinal and their efforts to provide a glimmer of hope for street kids in Indonesia. Their weapon of choice is the ukulele; Their passion is Punk!

A couple of months ago The Jakarta Film Team achieved funding for a project to film and promote Marjinal’s work via Kickstarter. They will produce a documentary called Jakarta Punk: The Marginal Story. Its aim is simple: to affect change by raising awareness.

The team have been providing regular progress updates and the latest announces the creation of a facebook page. If you haven’t done so already, why not pay them a visit and offer them some support! I know that they would very much appreciate it.

Marjinal

Awol : Got idea for direction

You never know where inspiration may come from. I posted this asking what should my first build be. I already had a few ideas of what I’l like but no idea how to make any of it happen. Then Electric Ukulele land’s own Daniel Hulbert showed me this:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Jc7eWmm3Jc]

My eyes lit up! Yes this is what I’m looking for, though I’m not crazy about the body style at all. So I plan to buy the components and see what I can load them into. Perhaps the flying v or something else a bit more rocking. Also have no desire to unscrew the back to change batteries so want to use  Daniel Hulbert’s battery idea from his uku bass build.

I’m in need of the list of parts that make up this build. Who can help me there?

Kingcaster uke build : part 12 – How to fit fret markers

So I’m building an electric ukulele… and I’m making all sorts of mistakes along the way.

This might have been an interesting fret marker

In my last post I revealed that I had “forgotten” to fit the fret markers – the little dots that are strategically inlayed into the fretboard. I should have done this before I hammered home the fret wire so that I could have sanded and smoothed to perfection without risk of damaging the frets. I didn’t and that’s just the way it is unfortunately. Here’s how I recovered…

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