Welcome back! Thanks for taking the time to read my blog again. This post is to update you on what I did this week concerning my project. This week, I went out to the hardware store and bought all the materials, including hooks, wall hangers, a wood board, a wooden stick, wood glue, nylon string, toothpicks and wood staining. I looked for cheap but good quality materials, because after all this project is about building my instrument at the lowest cost possible. I also bought materials that were made to do one thing, but in my project they will be used for something else. For example, I bought large picture hangers to use it to tie the strings to the ukulele. It's all about perspective! And since this is supposed to be a cheap project, I suppose I should tell you how much all of it cost. After doing all the math, I got a total cost of $15,10! I looked up on the guitar center website and the cheapest soprano ukulele (which is the size I'm making) cost $40! So I think I can count the "lowest cost possible" part of my project a success. This week I plan to put together the acoustic box at least, and look up the tuning for a soprano ukulele, meaning what notes I should get when I play the strings. Until next week!Lorena
