I find this discussion about "Koa" guitars quite odd. I like to play ukulele and as I get more educated about this instrument I have learned that major Hawaiian ukulele manufacturers have problems with their Koa supply. As a result, they already have moved from using single piece tops and bottoms which were common up into the 90s to bookmatched pieces, and are also introducing alternative woods such as Mango and Asian acacia as substitutes for Hawaiian Koa. Now if the traditional local Koa users who one would think have good relations with the suppliers have difficulty finding the wood for small numbers of small instruments, where the heck do the mainland or overseas guitar manufacturers find their wood to build much larger numbers of big guitars? Something is just very fishy with that idea of Koa guitars.
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