Old Guitar Converted to Baritone Ukulele by freeza36
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My dad's friend recently bought a house to renovate and re-sell, right down the road from ours. We got to go and look through the items that the last family left, and something really stood out for me; a beat up toy guitar. Although it had a couple stickers and numerous dents on it, I decided to take it home and see what I could do with it. After a few minutes, I decided to make it into a baritone ukulele, to add to my collection. The entire project took about 3 hours, most of which was spent scraping off stickers. I used the instructable by tewharau for inspiration. 
 
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Step 1: The Guitar Itself

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The guitar used is an old First Act guitar, specifically the "First Act Discovery." It has many dings and dents in it. A cheap guitar overall. It also had two large stickers on the front, but for free, what the heck.  
bigmark says: Mar 15, 2012. 12:35 PM
Thank's I just finished turning my kid's old one in to a ukulele....We have the same old guitar...I used a broken DS pen for the nut....Thank's I was about to throw the guitar away till I saw this... Keep Picking!!!!!!
freeza36 (author) says: Mar 15, 2012. 3:42 PM
sure. Mhy pleasure. Are all of the nuts like this on the first act discoverys?
bigmark says: Mar 15, 2012. 4:16 PM
I think so...there huge!!! lol The string's rested on the first fret!!!
freeza36 (author) says: Mar 15, 2012. 9:08 PM
yeah it was pretty bad. It had an extra fret
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