About a year ago I was fortunate to pick up a very nice old billet of Koa from a retiring luthier:
Wonderfully quarter sawn:
Very nicely figured:
I've been waiting to get my re-saw equipment and my chops up to bite into this billet and I'm there finally.
I was able to get 8 back sets from billet by cutting it in half and making 8 slices from each piece:
I'm very satisfied with the look and especially the tap tone I'm getting from the very hard old Koa billet!
The domestic wood locker deepens.