Fender Fullerton Jazzmaster Ltd Edition Ovangkol Electro Acoustic Concert Ukulele

Check out the Fender fullerton jazzmaster limited edition ovangkol electro acoustic concert ukulele.

Fender have an interesting history with ukuleles. They have dabbled over the years with cheaper instruments made in the far east of variable quality and general direction before paying more attention to the uke properly in 2009. One of my earliest memories of working for Southern Ukulele Store is selling the first incarnation of a Montecito tenor ukulele. Customers were always drawn to the Fender iconic designs with the 4 in line machine heads (which by complete chance, actually increase the string tension in a positive way on a ukulele). 

In recent years, opinion has been divided with the introduction of the Fullerton series. These ukes offer up the iconic Fender stratocaster, telecaster and jazzmaster shapes in colourful Fender famous colours.

This limited edition version of the Fullerton is something a little more special than it's classic Fender cousins. Constructed from ovangkol, an African relative of rosewood, it offers similar wide spectrum tonal properties in the highs and lows that you would expect from an instrument constructed of rosewood, with a slightly fuller midrange and brighter treble response not unlike that of koa.

The negatives? Well, these electro acoustic ukes don't have a strap button fitted and the factory set up and strings are a bit ropey... but, we have a plan!

We know the secret sauce to making affordable ukuleles play their best is a good set up and the right kind of strings so what we have done is set this concert ukulele up with Fremont blackline fluorocarbon strings and a Soloist smoothwound low G and they sing now! The instrument not only looks the part but it now sounds and feels the part too. We charge a bit more than a warehouse style shop would but we give the instruments a thorough set up, an improved set of strings and fit a strap button to the butt of the uke

Listing shows a typical example, it will not come in a bag but fits wonderfully in our TGI extreme tenor bag. If you have any questions, please get in touch.