Opal Instruments

Opal Instruments
Opal Instruments was founded in 2015, in Pomona, California, by Scott Dordick on the back of his photographic equipment factory, with luthier help from Sam Radding.

Initially they started out using the name Duell with an oval hole in the centre of the headstock but the hole was removed and the name was changed to Opal Instruments.

Opal Instruments started out making 3 models of electric Tenor Ukulele, all with an aluminium frame for the body, (the neck is a standard sort of wooden one). One, called the Wooden Top had a wooden top and back on an aluminium frame to be electric / acoustic, the other two were just skeletal frame designs, the Open Frame and the Sword.

The Sword has now been discontinued, but it has been replaced with a couple of minor variation on the Open Frame design. They have also added an all wood model, similar in look to the Wooden Top but with no frame and the back and sides routed out from a block of wood. They still only make Tenor scale Ukuleles but the oval hole in the centre of the headstock has come back.