Recent content by KohanMike

I too firmly believe that most people are good and kindhearted. I stopped watching the news years ago to avoid all the ill feelings it generates. I do watch CBS Sunday Morning because it always shows good news stories. I also watch various YouTube videos of heart warming actions of people all...

First, I've had about a dozen Bruce Wei ukes, mostly customs that have been very good. When I first started playing uke, I had a tough time fitting my fingers after playing guitar for almost 50 years. Turns out it was a soprano, so I went to a store and tried a concert and tenor. Tenor is it for me.

I love buying new gear, whether it's ukes, accessories, etc. and I don't consider it an ailment or "syndrome" so from now on I'm going to call it UAP, ukulele acquisition passion.

I have been using Bruce Wei Arts in Vietnam since 2013. He makes them from scratch, exactly to the specs that I ask, including thinning the solid top to improve resonance and projection. I even tell him fret marker position. Recently I had him do a couple of thinlines like the Kala Traveler and...

I never changed the nut when I went to those flatwound strings and the action is fine for me. You said you sanded the nut, did you mean to ask about the saddle? The saddle is part of an assembly, it can't be sanded. The only other thought I have is cut down the bottom of the slot in the bridge...

I recently met Phil from The Guitar Merchant who has group ukulele lessons in his West Hills store, 22807 Saticoy St., 91304, www.theguitarmerchant.com. If you need any repair, setup, modifications done, my go to place for the last eight years is Eric's Guitar Shop near Roscoe and the 405 in...

Exactly where in Los Angeles are you? I live in the gap between Beverly Hills and West Hollywood, called Beverly Grove West. In mid 2013, I joined Cali Rose & The CC Strummers of about fifty members. We meet in person every other Sunday and Wednesday in a Mar Vista backyard when weather allows...

I got a surprise Like for my post here in 2020. Since then I've switched to only thinline tenor cutaway ukes due to nerve damage in my neck spinal cord from radiation treatments for Hodgkins Disease in 1973 when I was 23. All configured the same as the Kala Travel.

For almost ten years I used a Kala solid cedar top, acacia koa tenor cutaway A/E that was my go-to uke, but I had to give it up last year along with my six other standard depth ukes because it became difficult to play them with nerve damage to my neck spinal cord from radiation treatments for...

I've never been married or had children, and when I retired in 2012 at 62 for health reasons, I knew I would get involved in something to occupy my time. I played guitar for almost 50 years, then took up the ukulele in mid 2013 (after I attended a ukulele play-along by the Los Angeles Music...

I use a Neewer USB mic kit I bought from Amazon a few years ago for $45.98. I record audio with it while I sing and play my ukulele on my MacStudio using GarageBand that comes with the Mac. If I also want to record video, I use QuickTime Player that also comes with a Mac.

The reason I asked for the luthier name is if it was Bruce Wei (which it is not), who I've used for almost 10 years, I would offer to step in on her behave since I have a very good relationship with him.

I added one, Bruce Wei in Vietnam.

I'm in. I added my go to luthier, Bruce Wei in Vietnam, who I've used since 2013, making me 14 tenor and bass ukes, the vast majority came out very good and the price is always right. Eric's Guitar Shop, the place I use for modifications and repair here in Van Nuys, CA, says that Bruce is a...

Correction, the Nexxus 360 has a USB micro recharge port.