Friday, February 16, 2007

Loco Factory

Having finally secured a couple of moments to phone up Headway, makers of La Uke ukuleles and possibly Loco ukuleles, I gave them a quick dial.

The brief conversation confirmed my suspicions. Locos are indeed made by Headway China.

A look at their website has lots of nice photos showing how La Ukes are handcrafted etc, etc. The page for Locos are considerably more simple and less impressive. It leaves one wondering if it is only guitars that they make at Headway China. Wonder no more.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank you so much for your investigations. I tried to contact some Loco dealers by my side to find out, were the Locos are made. They all say that it comes from China, but not exactly from which builder. Thank you for finding out that it is Headway China!
Greetings from Germany
Nanja

uker said...

Hi, again, Nanja.

Finding that Locos were made by Headway was the easy part. Finding out whether they were made in Nagano or in China required the phone call. I am glad you found the information worthwhile. Enjoy you ukulele!