These are spool clamps. After bending the uke sides, you glue the instrument top and back to the sides using these as clamps. They retail for $26.95 for a set of 6 clamps. I made these using a long 1 inch dowel and glued some cork on them, drilled them and inserted the 6 inch bolts and wing nuts. I made 25 of them for about $20. It took me about 4 hours...3 hours to figure out HOW TO and find all of the materials (just kidding). Of course, the cork sheets were too thin and I glued 3 sheets together.
At first I had the wrong size bolts and wing nuts the picture on the internet looked small. When I finally got out an ukulele side and looked at how this was going to work I went to the hardware store with my uke form and the guy asked why I was challenging him!
I have been going through the different stages of the process of building the instrument, reading and researching as I think...I want to bolt the neck to the body with the whole thing enclosed so I can do some binding and trimwork BEFORE attaching the neck. I will need to go through the soundhole to bolt the neck in. One guy at a hardware store swore to me that there is no such tool that does things at a 90 degree angle!! I've seen Wes work on the bike with one. Well, I'll have to go to Sears. I'm tired of talking to idiots in the hardware store!
The guy at Tacoma Screw is more user friendly.
