Month: November 2022

This sweet concert ukulele is pre-owned and looking for its second home. Features koa top, back, & sides, black acacia neck, Brazilian rosewood fingerboard & bridge, abalone rosette & peghead Dart inlay.

Please note that this instrument is pre-owned and has some strumming marks on its top and a bit of buckle rash on the back.

• Koa (Hawaii) top, back, & sides
• Black acacia (northern California) neck
• Brazilian rosewood fingerboard & bridge
• 15″ string length
• 1-1/2″ nut width
• French polished shellac finish
• Bone nut & saddle

“This is a guitar I made for my son Eli Dart. The size and style were made to his specs and the ornamentation for memories. The back and sides are made from wood my Grandfather (Eli’s great grandfather) harvested in Angola, Africa, in the early 1920’s. I do not know what kind of wood it is. It is heavy and a bit waxy like Rosewood and beautiful! The top wood is Sitka Spruce from Ketchikan Alaska. A big blow-down, not logged and shipped to me as split blocks to be sawed by me into top wood.

The ornamentation is from his memories of growing up on a ridge in Redwood country and a swing in a Maple tree. The Green Man is watching over it all. I like making things special!”

-David Dart

• Body size based on David’s 00 body (14-½” lower bout) 
• Dart legacy African hardwood sides, back, and peghead overlay
• Master-grade Sitka spruce (Ketchikan, Alaska) top 
• Honduras mahogany neck
• Ebony binding, bridge, and heel cap
• Ebony fingerboard
• Pointed cutaway
• Waverly tuners   
• Abalone Dart logo
• Abalone edge purfling & soundhole inlay 
• Custom abalone & mother-of-pearl peghead, fingerboard, & heel cap inlay — designed, cut, and inlaid by David Dart
• Mother-of-pearl side dots 
• Bone nut & saddle 
• Satin polyurethane finish
• 25-3/8” string length  
• 14 frets to the body
• 1-11/16” nut width 

Just completed: custom David Dart parlor guitar, with master-grade Sitka spruce top, Honduras rosewood sides & back, Honduras rosewood neck, fine herringbone purfling, ebony appointments, and celestial-themed inlay with a wolf howling at the moon on the peghead. This one has twelve frets to the body, for a slightly shorter overall length. That’s the Scorpio constellation on the upper frets ✨

• Honduras rosewood sides, back, and neck
• Master-grade Sitka spruce (Ketchikan, Alaska) top 
• Ebony binding, bridge, heelcap and peghead overlay
• Ebony fingerboard
• Waverly tuners
• Custom fingerboard & peghead inlay — designed, cut, and inlaid by David Dart   
• Mother-of-pearl Dart logo
• Fine herringbone purfling appointments 
• Mother-of-pearl side dots 
• Bone nut & saddle 
• Satin polyurethane finish
• 24-3/4” string length  
• 12 frets to the body
• 1-13/16” nut width 

This one was custom-ordered, but please contact us if you’re interested in something similar.