Lipson All Solid Figured Bramley Apple English Style Tenor Ukulele #022 w/gigbag

Alex here;

Less than a year ago, I met Dan Lipson.

I Instantly I felt kinsmanhip for a man who had the same boundless energy and enthusiasm for musical instruments as my team and I. Dan is crazy in the best possible way and his rapid development and transition from guitar building to Ukulele building has been triumphant.

Pete Howlett has (and continues to be) such an important cog in Southern Ukulele Stores relationship and history with the Ukulele and our introductions to his final apprentices (Dan Lipson & John Story) last year have been a perfect new chapter in helping us shephard UK Ukulele luthiery, UK built Ukuleles and the British Ukulele world. It's going in the right direction in the years to come and Dan Lipson is for Southern Ukulele Store at the front and centre of that.

Dan asked me where we should next go from Pete's Hawaiian Style Tenor design and shape and I expressed a desire for the UK to have its own alternativem everyone loves Koa and the Ukulele world is held to the standard of the Hawaiian standard ukuleles by Kanile'a, KoAloha & Kamaka.

Enter Dan with the 'English Style Tenor'. A series of English made ukuleles made from our local indigenous English woods. If Hawaiian Koa is the voice of the pacific islands and the melting pot of those cultural influences and the sweet, harp like sound of Koa then these Ukuleles made from Bramley Apple, English Yew & other English woods encapsulate our deep, rich traditions too. A Ukulele that offers an alternative to the Hawaiian style Ukuleles and instead offers a slightly more broad shouldered, richer English folk tone.

We can only imagine the joy of wokring with this delightful, locally sourced tonewood that emits a faint apple aroma under sanding. The sweetness of this native fruit tree is reflected in the mesmerising figuring that reveals pastel pinks, lilac hues, and darker lines reminiscent of olive wood. The charm in the asymmetry of the bookmatching reveals an allure that cannot be manufactured, only grown and appreciated for mother natures good work, expertly celebrated by Dan in this tenor.

This listing of course shows the actual ukulele you will receive, shipped in a padded TGI extreme gigbag for safe keeping.

Specification and Certification:

Lipson Rose Vine English Style Tenor #025

Lovingly handcrafted entirely of native UK woods by Daniel Lipson and designed by Pete Howlett, completed in May 2026 with the following appointments:

Solid Figured Bramley Apple soundboard
V-braced in UK grown Giant Redwood
Oval offset soundhole
Solid Figured Bramley Apple back and sides X-braced with Giant Redwood
Quartersawn Shropshire Alder (Alnus glutinosa) neck
Shropshire Laburnum fingerboard with "Rose" fret marker in Holly
Laburnum bridge with maple bridge pins
Hand carved Corian saddle and 42mmm string spacing
38mm nut width with hand carved Corian nut
Classic 'Howlett' neck profile
Laburnum veneer headstock with Lipson Ukuleles logo
Der Jung classic Nickel tuners
Worth brown fluorocarbon strings with a d'Addario silverwound low G