1920s Martin Style 0 Soprano Ukulele

September 16, 2019

1920s Martin Style 0 Soprano Ukulele

I worked on this for a customer and this down-on-its-luck Martin uke shaped-up nice after work was done. It has wood pegs and features that date it to the '20s and, other than that, it's a pretty-typical Style 0 -- solid mahogany body, lightly-built, and with that perfect-feeling cozy Martin neck shape.

Work included: included fixing some poorly-repaired seams and top cracks, filling in a punch-in/gross crack in the side (as best as I could), and some bridge modification to get the action down to spec. It's playing bang-on with 1/16" action at the 12th fret and I didn't even need to level and dress the bar frets -- after all this time they were just fine.

Scale length: 13 5/8"

Nut width: 1 3/8"

String spacing at nut: 1 1/8"

String spacing at bridge: 1 9/16"

Body length: 9 1/4"

Lower bout width: 6 1/4"

Waist width: 4"

Upper bout width: 4 7/8"

Side depth at endpin: 2 1/4"

Top wood: solid mahogany

Back/sides wood: solid mahogany

Neck wood: mahogany