This scale length (20”) and rim size (11”) has proved very flexible for my customers. Guitar players, uke fanatics, mandolin pickers and more have been able to import their tuning and string material to get what they need. In this case, we have steel strings tuned dgbe, like a baritone ukulele. It is a perfect machine for jug band, blues, folk and fingerpicking, I am really please with it. I like cherry for banjos lately because it is almost as loud as maple, has long sustain and a slightly dusty growl that I like. The cherry for this one is all cabinet making scraps from the Carpenter Ant Stash in Portland, the pistachio is from California orchards.