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• About Koa Wood
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• For Beginners: Basic Setup & Care
  • Attaching Strings to
    Tuning Pegs and Bridge
  • Tuning a 4-string Tenor
  • For New Kawika Owners
  • " Nihongo
• Ukulele Chords, Strums & Assorted Music
  • Different Strums & Tunes
    For Different Size Ukuleles
  • Guest Artists
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• Building Philosophy, Cycles
  • Building Philosophy
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• Kawika's Shop Tips
  • Finishing Procedures
  • Making a Side Bender
  • Make a Thickness Sander
  • Soundhole Trim Channel Jig
  • Edge Gluing Tops & Backs
  • Joining the Neck to the Body
  • Make/Install a Uke Bridge Doctor
  • About Ukulele & Guitar Bridge Plates
  • Gluing Bridges with Titebond Glue
  • Positioning the Bridge for Gluing
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• Jigs, Gadgets & Useful Things
  • Jigs & Gadgets
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• Technology - Science & Engineering for Complex Lutherie Problems
  • Introduction
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    • Free Plate Vibration
    • Simply Supported
      Plate Deformation
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  • Sounds, Strings & "Hula Girl" Shaker
    • Ukulele Sizes
      & Resonances
    • Tunings & String Tensions
    • Breaking in a New Instrument
  • Journal of Guitar Acoustics
  • Understanding & Controlling
    Instrument Resonances
    • Measuring Wood Properties
    • Static Measurement of Ex
    • Dynamic Measurement of Ex
    • Dynamic Measurement of Ex, Ey & Exy
    • Ex, Ey, Top Compliance & Frequency
    • Comparing Higher Modes with fdisk
    • Measuring Top Compliance
    • Measuring & Predicting
      Primary Instrument Resonances
  • Lutherie Spreadsheets &
    Calculation Articles
• Left-Brain Lutherie Book
• Collecting Ukuleles & Memorabilia
  • Identification of Old Hawaiian
    Soprano Ukuleles.
  • Vintage Ukulele Instruction
    Manual Listing
• My Shiba Inu's
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• Big Island Saddle Road Birding
  • Introduction
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    • Songs, Pictures &
      Natural History
    • Sound Recording How-To
    • Taxonomy
  • List of Trails
  • Trail Descriptions
    • Tree Planting Road
    • Morita Camp Trail
    • Kaumana Trail
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    • Power Line Road
    • Pu'u O'o Trail
    • Aina Hou (coming soon)
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