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Old 03-17-2016, 07:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Mark Hatcher View Post
I have the pleasure of building a Koa ​Piņa parlor guitar for TomB'sox. Tom visited my studio in January and we picked out woods and I got to watch him play (and hear his daughter sing) and had a great talk about comfort, tones and expectations.

​Piņa means "little pineapple" so a Koa parlor certainly seems right, doesn't it?








I love flamed maple, flamed mahogany...but no wood I have seen has the beauty of flamed Koa. Some examples of flamed walnut and mango come close, but Koa is the champ in my book.


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