27 Jun FIUL / RedPaul / we are feeling the love
One of our lovely customers, Paul Redfern, mentioned us at FIUL (the recent international uke fest in France). We are chuffed and excited! Paul’s intervuke
News From The Workshop
26 Jun My first hand-drum banjo
Steve Edwards sent me this little Remo hand drum to be converted into a banjo uke. Details he specifically asked for included, no headstock veneer, violin pegs and for the fretboard to be left plain above the 12th fret. A fun project! ...
23 Jun Receding Waters
Last night Hebden Bridge saw some of the worst flooding in living memory. Though we got stuck wading through it on the way home from a show, all at Tinguitar are safe & dry. We wish we could say the same for some other local ...
20 Jun Ukulelezaza plays our first ever koa uke!
Ukulelezaza (aka Remco Houtman-Janssen) kindly uploaded this video of our first ever koa ukulele (spruce top). We loved it so much we couldn’t just couldn’t keep it around here. We are glad Remco enjoys playing it and ...
13 Jun Brazilian mahogany in-stock
We’ve just invested in a little over 2 cubic feet of Brazilian mahogany. This wood variety is getting more and more difficult to come by, so I was pleased to discover a stash of it in a timber yard not far from me. Transporting ...
12 Jun Two new ukes are heading for homes
We just added two new galleries to the site. Our first ever Koa uke has left the building (and is winging its way to the most excellent Ukulelezaza as we type this). The Koa ukulele is a soprano with a Bearclaw Spruce top. It’s ...
12 Jun Ukulele Hooley, we are excited to meet you!
It seems we’ve only just recovered from Cheltenham/The Uke Fest of GB and we are already making preparations to go to Ireland to Ukulele Hooley in August. We are excited around tinguitar central as it’ll be the second time ...
08 Jun Back to the coal face
After the excitement of the weekend, the workshop is back to business-as-usual. A longneck soprano electric uke came together today ready for finishing, a mahogany soprano got its fretboard and an 8-string tenor got its soundhole ...
07 Jun Customer Orders and Summer Preparations
With the bank holiday weekend and the Ukulele Festival of Great Britain now over, we are all getting back to work at Tinguitar central. We’ve got all three members of the team working today (2 in the shop and one working on the ...
03 Jun How much rain?!?
It’s the last day of the uke fest of GB & we don’t know if it could have rained any harder. We had a great morning (sold two more ukes!) and we enjoyed meeting new people. By mid-afternoon, however, we found ourselves ...