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My $6 thrift store ukulele beat the $300 one at the shop, and the guy there was not happy
I got into building weird little instruments last spring and grabbed a beat up ukulele at a garage sale in Fresno for six bucks just to mess with the action. The guy at the music shop on Blackstone told me it was firewood and that I needed a proper one with a solid top to even hear a difference. So I set it up myself with a file and a new set of strings, then played both back to back for my neighbor who has played for 20 years. She picked the cheap one three times out of four, said it just sounded warmer. Anyone else into fixing up junk instruments, or am I just hearing what I want to hear?
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harperschmidt29d ago
That's the setup doing the work, not some magic in the cheap wood. A good fret job and proper action can make a $6 uke play better than a $300 one straight off the wall, since most shops never touch the setup on the floor models. Keep doing your own work, and next time check the nut slots and saddle height too, that's usually where the real gains are hiding.
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