This is a beautiful custom-painted Fluke ukulele by reknowned children's book author and illustrator, Jon Buller, who writes :
I ordered a tenor Fluke ukulele by phone a few weeks ago, and when I mentioned that I intended to paint it, they offered to send the top separately. This made the painting a lot easier!
I started with a Blueberry Fluke top, which I roughed up a little bit with #600 sandpaper to provide a surface that the paint would adhere to. Then I applied a few coats of acrylic white gesso, followed by a few coats of acrylic metallic gold paint, and, finally, some acrylic black for the linework. I went over all this with a few coats of Stewart MacDonald Colortone Aerosol Guitar Lacquer in a clear satin finish, and then I sent it back to be attached to the body of the instrument."
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