OHANA CUSTOM USA - DT-RCW Solid Californian Redwood and Claro Walnut Tenor Ukulele #190313p

We're really delighted to bring you a truly North America, American Folk machine by Ohana. There is something so romantic about Californian Ukuleles. Whether its the general vibe or history of ingenuity and manufacturing Cali gives off, I don't know but its undeniable that California made musical instruments have a certain lustre about them and many of the worlds best brands, builders and workshops come from this particular part of the west coast of the USA. Da Silva, Deering, Blackbird, Ben Bonham, Tyde, Kala's US custom shop and now the one and only Ohana Ukuleles are producing custom made Ukes straight out of their long beach headquarters in Signal Hill, CA. 

Ohana Ukuleles is owned by Louis Wu, an underrated historian in the ukulele world who has been working closely with some of the world's best musical instrument factories for decades. With Ohana being a US company, they have been keen to produce high end instruments in house with a prototype being quietly shown off to dealers at the NAMM show as far back as 5 years ago. Louis became very impressed with the work of in house technician and New York born luthier Brad some years ago, with the two designing and tweaking designs as side projects within the Ohana family as far back as 2016. Now with much refinement and efforts to keep the traditional Ohana shape and aesthetic qualities; we are honoured to be the first dealer in Europe to showcase these fantastic instruments.

The DT-RCW is Ohana's a special dealer exclusive US made Californian redwood and Californian claro walnut ukulele. This wood combination is absolutely worldclass and rarely seen despite the fantastic tonal qualities it produces. Being wood of Californian heritage, built in California it is a custom shop uke of high spec at a much more affordable price than if it was made in Hawaii. For example, our custom Kanile'a Manu Hu range was over £4000 due to the complex Geography involved in getting the right woods over the Hawaii.

The instrument is incredibly light and resonant with a gorgeous light modern polyurethane gloss finish. The build quality is fantastic, light, resonant and loud but with character and depth. A confident ringing low G and bell like high chimey picked notes.

The Ukulele is finished off with a gorgeous Ohana custom shop headstock design, with offset mother of pearl markers and a very modern aesthetic and build which is a nice contrast to the other Koa models they make steeped in tradition.

The DT-RCW was one of the very first prototype models Ohana produced and it was shown to select dealers at the NAMM show in summer 2023. We sold through the first two we had to two very happy customers and I was delighted when Ohana accepted my order for one more which we have available here.

Specification: 
Solid Californian redwood top
Solid Californian claro walnut back and sides
Abalone purfling
Ebony fingerboard and bridge
Ebony and claro walnut heel cap and end graft
Mother of pearl headstock inlay
Gotoh geared tuners
38mm nut width
Bone nut and saddle
D'Addario EJ87T with NYL031W Low G
Comes in an Ohana hard case