Making the Gourd Instrument

One of the instruments that can be made from a gourd is a ukelele. A simple instrument, the belly is made from the rounded part of the gourd with a covering and sound hole. A neck for the strings are attached. This is a ukelele begun some time ago and only now retrieved from the closet to finish...

This was the original kettle gourd.

Once but in half and gutted, the face of
a broken mandolin was glued to it.

Screws and threads from another
instruments will be attached to
a tomato stake for a neck.

The gourd belly is being
decorated with vines
and leaves.