Hi there.
I live in Melbourne , Australia.
Antoniotsai has an agent operating an ebay store from the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. That agent goes by the name of Dane Clark, and operates a business called MandoHarp.
I purchased a soprano ukulele from him last year for about $325 AUD. It looked very nice on the web page with lots of close-up pictures. It looked pretty good in the flesh too until I examined it more closely.
The pictures you see on this web-page are of the actual instrument I purchased. It seems to have been a one-off of that design, hence the "status-sold" at the top of the page.
Apart from the inlays, I was impressed by the claim that it was a solid koa instrument with rosewood fretboard and bridge, and came in a plush lined hard case. In fact, I found that it played quite well in spite of its faults. Indeed I will go as far as to say it is rather a well built uke. There are, however, a number of faults which really piss me off, because it is potentially not a bad instrument for the price.
I think that if it had been totally built and finished by the one person, it may have been much nicer, but it looks like one too many dills has had a go at it, and spoiled it. The pictures don't show the reflection that you can see when it's in your hand.
The first thing I noticed was the buffing marks which show as criss-cross rays parallel to all sides of the bridge and fretboard.
There are glue smears and splashes all over the fretboard, which don't show on the pictures.
The yellow parts of those puffs of smoke on the headstock are just yellow filler, where the inlays don't fit the routing, as with the gaps between the fretboard dragon's teeth, etc. This could be more of a problem on the fretboard if the filler wears faster than pearl and rosewood.
You can see where the nut was crooked, even with it removed.
The tuners are cheap plastic ones, and the whole tuners, their bushes, and the foot part that is supposed to remain stationary at the back of the headstock all turns in the holes.
When I removed them (tuners), I found that the holes were far too big, and had obviously been drilled to suit different tuners. In fact they looked like they had been drilled with a samurai sword.
The Puff of smoke coming out of the dragons nose has part of it's filler missing.
Furthermore, the finish has a fine crack at the back, where the heel joins the body.
Here's a picture after I replaced the nut and strung it up. It still has to have the holes filled to fit the gold/amber Gotoh tuning pegs I got for it. I'll use epoxy putty to fill the holes and re- drill them.
Apart from that it was basically well put together with nice (unfigured) koa, mahogany neck and rosewood fretboard and bridge. The back is rather nice.
Hope I haven't discouraged you. A mate of mine has a dreadnought acoustic bass that looks magnificent, and plays well. He doesn't have any complaints.
Cheers Hip.