This is a brand new Uke from Steve that I waited a year for. I have gotten to know Steve over the years and he truly is a master luthier in every respect. The time and detail he puts into his instruments is off the charts and it shows in the sound quality, beauty and playability.
The sound is full and warm with the lovely highs that the spruce top produces and it has barely begun to open upon to it's full palette of sound potential. Steve encouraged me to go with walnut rather that koa as he loves the full sound walnut produces on his ukuleles.
I also had Steve install a Mi-Si acoustic trio pickup. This innovative system incorporates a L.R. Baggs Element undersaddle pickup element with the Mi-Si Simple Jack battery-free active preamp/endpin jack. It sounds fabulous plugged in and has tone and volume control dials. just inside the sound hole.
This is a brand new perfect and flawless beauty and unfortunately, I am unable to afford it right now.
Check out his site for more info, it has Jake Shimabukuro picking up his new use from Steve:
