Eight-year GAL member Michael DaSilva makes high-quality, handcrafted ukuleles. After falling in love with all things ukulele, he escaped the high-tech business world and began building instruments in 2004 and has built over 350 instruments to date. He continues to single-handedly build four or five instruments a month for ukulele enthusiasts around the globe.
▪ bio current as of 2015
2016
AL#126 p.6
Michael DaSilva
▪ DaSilva builds the uke body normally, then rips into it with a saw and a big honkin’ chisel. He fits a bent wood gore, then binds it, which is complicated by the changing angle. He demonstrated the whole process live at the 2014 GAL Convention.
2015
AL#124 p.4
Michael DaSilva Bob Gleason Jay Lichty Woodley White
▪ Four prolific uke makers take us into their shops to talk about how and why they build. From their 2014 GAL Convention panel discussion.