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Original Post By:
Danno
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Date: 8/20/2010 6:21:55 PM |
Let's see if we can get some good and fun Ideas. Please add your Ideas.
1. Small cup Holder. 2. Bird House. 3. Fly Swatter. 4. Port-a-Pottie for the road. 5. Fire Wood. 6. Spare Ping Pong Paddle.
Next!
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Posted By:
Dave in Petaluma
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Date: 8/20/2010 8:53:49 PM |
| Give them to me and I'll "hot rod them" usually new top, bridge, saddle, frets, tuners, & reglue every thing, Time permitting.
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Posted By:
Danno
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Date: 8/20/2010 10:29:59 PM |
Here are some more ideas.
7. An egg Slicer using the strings and pushing the egg over the sound hole.
8. A boat paddle
9. A Drum (James Hill does that already)
10. A pair of unique wooden shoes.
Anyone else?
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Posted By:
Geoff Rezek
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Date: 8/21/2010 5:56:22 AM |
It is a Uke size bongo. Turn it over and use it as a lap drum box.
This will bring non uke players into the band and fun. It is amazing the different drum sounds you can get out of it.
Geoff Rezek
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Posted By:
Dutch
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Date: 8/21/2010 8:02:28 AM |
Puppets use the uke as a full size guitar. And if the script gets a little rough, the shock value is on the audience, not the performer. They don't really break grandly if they are strung. Actually, one has to "pre-break" them to get the desired effect. The Muppets destroyed old ukes regularly.
Strength & Honor
Dutch
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Posted By:
ChefJeff
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Date: 8/21/2010 8:47:25 AM |
| Easy-to-throw frisbee.
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Posted By:
cowbelle
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Date: 8/21/2010 9:12:32 AM |
11. Travel perch for parrot or macaw. Put a perch over soundhole and permit bird to poop and chomp in one simple location.
After a long trip the remains of uke could be thrown away in a sandwich bag.
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Posted By:
ChefJeff
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Date: 8/21/2010 9:17:11 AM |
| Christie, there's an old proverb, "never poop where you chomp." It applies to most of us, senators especially, but I don't know about parrots.
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Posted By:
old smelly bob
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Date: 8/21/2010 11:07:46 AM |
Chef da Jeff, any recipes for a high-fiber popsicle?
or an inconvenient ladle? ;=)
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Posted By:
hashireeightman
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Date: 8/21/2010 11:47:38 AM |
11. Collect autographs
12. A birdhouse
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Posted By:
joe persons
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Date: 8/21/2010 12:48:38 PM |
| 13. Bean Bag Toss game for your school carnival fundraiser. Toss a beanbag into the soundhole and win a prize!
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Posted By:
~~ KENT in Surf City ~~
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Date: 8/21/2010 2:16:14 PM
(Updated: 8/21/2010 2:17:03 PM)
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| ~~~ Make a base, stand upright, wire, add a shade & you have one cool lamp. You can get everything you need @ your local hardware store & it's a fun project. ~~~~~~>>>)))}}}*>
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Posted By:
hokeypokey
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Date: 8/21/2010 2:20:58 PM |
| wall art
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Posted By:
BeachBumTom
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Date: 8/21/2010 2:50:07 PM |
| Danno, I actually have been planning to use an old "unnnamed" soprano uke for a birdhouse. Stick a little perch in it and nail it to a post on my patio and voila (!) a cool decoration and residence for flying friends. BBT
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Posted By:
DCL
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Date: 8/21/2010 3:51:13 PM |
16.Hamster house
17.Weapon/home security
18.Dog Toy
19.Cricket Bat
20.Piggy Bank
21.Rug beater
that's all I got for now- hilarious post
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Posted By:
PHMike
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Date: 8/21/2010 4:30:20 PM |
Pick someone famous, say the uke belonged to them, claim the star busted it up on stage, sell it on eBay, use profit to buy playable uke.
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Posted By:
hashireeightman
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Date: 8/21/2010 4:59:05 PM |
PHMike, Someone put an electric guitar on ebay back in 2000 or 2001 claiming "this would have been Elian Gonzalez's guitar if he stayed and grew up in US."
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The custody and immigration status of a young Cuban boy, Elián González (born December 7, 1993), was at the center of a heated 2000 controversy involving the governments of Cuba and the United States; González's father, Juan Miguel González Quintana; González's other relatives in Miami, Florida and in Cuba; and Miami's Cuban American community.
González's mother had drowned in late 1999 while with her son and boyfriend, from Cuba to the United States. The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) initially placed González with paternal relatives in Miami, who sought to keep him in the United States against his father's demands that González be returned to Cuba. A federal district court's ruling that only González's father, and not his extended relatives, could petition for asylum on the boy's behalf was upheld by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. After the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case, González returned to Cuba with his father in June 2000.
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Posted By:
shawn
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Date: 8/21/2010 5:46:35 PM
(Updated: 8/21/2010 5:52:06 PM)
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fishing lure...."sinker version"
firewood for cold winters up in Mauna Kea....
butterfly net.....
a rapper's necklace....
and a full blown 'uke-themed' bbq
shawn
http://ukulelefriend.com
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Posted By:
Danno
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Date: 8/21/2010 7:13:09 PM
(Updated: 8/21/2010 7:23:59 PM)
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Take off all the strings except for one and use it for a bow and arrow.
Make a model sail boat out of it.
With some rope you can probably make a life jacket out of two ukes.
Play "Spin the Uke" Kissing Game!!!!
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Posted By:
Paul Cundari
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Date: 8/21/2010 7:30:30 PM |
| Molotov cocktail.
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Posted By:
Yosef 1965
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Date: 8/21/2010 8:07:51 PM |
| How bout a "pooper scooper"??
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Posted By:
ToeBone
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Date: 8/22/2010 12:44:27 AM |
I made a gate handle out of a beat Treholipee:
http://www.ukuzoo.com/ViewCollections.aspx?cid=4&iid=340
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Posted By:
Ukester Brown
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Date: 8/22/2010 10:04:55 AM
(Updated: 8/22/2010 10:09:23 AM)
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| Here's the birdhouse I made a few years ago. http://www.ukesterbrown.com/bird-uke.html Oh, and some birds don't need perches. Their rivals like them so they can sit on it and harass the occupants. That's what sparrows will do to wrens.
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Posted By:
shawn
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Date: 8/22/2010 7:46:39 PM |
there's always chopsticks and toothpicks (just watch out for those splinters!)
shawn
http://ukulelefriend.com
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Posted By:
Brudda WUZ
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Date: 8/23/2010 12:46:50 AM |
| scavenge some tines from an old rake and attach them to the bridge somehow to make a kalimba..
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Posted By:
William
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Date: 8/23/2010 1:05:34 AM |
| They make wonderful flower pots for orchids,spider plants,string of pearls or air fern. A plastic bag contains the soil and with discrete watering, the uke remains intact.
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Posted By:
telebob
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Date: 8/23/2010 9:17:49 PM |
hmmm, I think we're up to 37... so...
37. sell it for parts!
38. repaint it in vibrant dayglo colors and sell as artwork
39. practice your woodburning skills
40. practice your carving skills
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Posted By:
JDUke
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Date: 8/23/2010 10:13:09 PM |
| Put it in the back seat of your car and leave the window rolled down to see if the story is true about someone putting another uke with it.
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Posted By:
ToeBone
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Date: 8/24/2010 11:41:21 AM |
| I thought a uke left in a car would get you an accordion.
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Posted By:
Danno
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Date: 8/24/2010 10:50:41 PM |
Target Practice.
Hollow out the Neck and us it as a pipe.
Hold it to your ear and listen to the Ocean.
Tenderize a Steak with it.
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Posted By:
joe persons
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Date: 8/25/2010 1:23:27 AM |
| bed pan??? Nah...never mind!
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Posted By:
franulele
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Date: 8/30/2010 9:30:09 PM |
| Our uke club uses a non-player uke as its piggy bank.
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Posted By:
zazahora
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Date: 8/31/2010 9:34:53 AM |
| Make playable.
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Posted By:
JETUKE
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Date: 8/31/2010 4:14:55 PM |
| Put it under your pillow when you go to sleep and maybe the Uke Fairy will leave you a dollar.
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Posted By:
Taco Man
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Date: 8/31/2010 7:28:26 PM |
| . . .maybe a "bride popper".
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Posted By:
Ukulelegirl
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Date: 9/1/2010 12:55:07 PM |
| Pinata?
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Posted By:
joe persons
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Date: 9/2/2010 2:00:39 AM |
| Excellent one Taco Man! (See Kamoa Uke thread)
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