152 - Brad Kahabka (Ohana Ukulele Custom Shop Builder)

152 - Brad Kahabka (Ohana Ukulele Custom Shop Builder) In episode 152 of “Have Guitar Will Travel”, presented by Vintage Guitar Magazine, host James Patrick Regan speaks with Ohana Ukulele Custom Shop Builder, Brad Kahabka. In their conversation Brad tells us about his path to working with ukulele’s, working in a music store, the military, getting a fine arts degree and eventually doing set up’s on ukuleles at Ohana. Brad explains what it takes to make custom ukuleles, a C&C machine a laser engraver and a lot of hand work sanding and glueing and putting together the fine details. Brad talks about his musical history going to GIT in Hollywood playing in punk bands and following the Warped Tour. Brad talks about how he learned to build ukuleles by reverse engineering the defective ones that came through the shop as well as doing repairs on vintage Kamaka and Martin ukuleles. Brad tells us about the woods he works with and the qualities of the different woods as well as the difficulties of working with certain types of woods and he explains the “Bubble” ukulele… which you need to see to understand. Brad walks us through the ordering process of the custom shop and the cost of the instruments he builds. You can find out all you want to know about custom Ohana Ukuleles and see photos of Brad’s work at their website: ohanacustomshop.com Please subscribe, like, comment, share and review this podcast! #VintageGuitarMagazine #BradKahabka #OhanaUkuleleCustomShop #OhanaUkuleles #ukulele #ukuleles #theDeadlies #haveguitarwilltravelpodcast #hgwt #HGWT . . Please like, comment, and share this podcast! Download Link