Harry Tomita was born in Honolulu, Hawaii and learned to play his $10 Martin ukulele in the mid-1940s. After a stint in Korea he graduated from UC Berkeley with a BSEE. Now retired, he has decided to resume his interest in playing. The cost of instruments drove him to build his own ukulele and that has been his hobby ever since.

▪ bio current as of 2012

2012
AL#109 p.67               
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▪ Reasonably priced parts for a simple sander drum, purchased at a hardware store.

2007
AL#89 p.68      ALA2 p.23         
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▪ This thickness gauge can be used after final sanding to measure the variations in thickness over the surface of the plates.