My Bird Can Sing- a work in progress- the Wolfelele Uke

I had the great fortune to be able to participate in a Ukulele building workshop at FAI 2011 a few weeks back and have continued working towards my goal of a one of a kind, hand painted uke.  The folks at Wolfelele, a small Canadian maker of ukulele kits, provided several for the workshop and boy, how cute!  The super cute, triangular "travel style" that I have only seen as vintage "beach" ukuleles.  Here is a shot with uke finished (without strings) at the end of the workshop.  To get a a very affordable instrument, checkout Wolfelele's website: www.wolfelele.com

Since getting home, I have taken off the strings, fretboard, tuning pegs and gears and the bridge and sanded the entire body really well.  After seeking some advice, I plunged into the painting.  I started with a spray primer and then decided to use some glossy, blue spray paint I had on hand.  Here are a couple of working shots....

Now of course, as my luck had it, I started running out of the blue paint in my efforts to do the final spraying. Unfortunately, this has led to some puddling in places, so I am back to sanding those areas.  Ugh...off to tend to this right now.  I'll keep you posted, if the sanding goes well, I'll launch into the hand painted bird motif on front and back!  I cannot wait for my bird to sing!