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Location: Tennessee | Check it out ...
Koa top Elite |
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Location: New Orleans | Anything I'd say would be an understatement but that guitar is one rare beauty, a total GEM. I want to play it RIGHT NOW!!! What a find! That guitar is gonna make somebody REALLY happy. Damn... |
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Location: closely held secret | Custom, looks a lot like the '06 Collectors.
"The case has some bubling from being in storage"?
I hope the guitar wasn't in it... |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I believe a run of these was made specifically for Guitar Center and only sold there. The model number means KGC (Koa Guitar Center). There is a thread someplace in the vault on this but I'm too lazy to look for it. Dave |
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Location: SoCal | It was also a panelmeister --- not a solid koa top. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | CAUTION!
Staring into Koa Wood can be downright mesmerizing and habit forming! |
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Location: Warren,Pa. | Well, it's pretty to look at but a Koa verneer is no better sound-wise than a yellow pine verneer (or the Koa Celebrity that's out now). I'd wait for the '06 Collector's. Haven't I heard, though, that Koa isn't really a great tonewood for tops? |
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Location: Atlanta,Ga. | Hey Mike why is your ovation logo on sideways??Didnt i teach you anything?
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Location: Upper Left USA | Well, Sam...
...if I had seen the close ups yours or Miles' I coulda been correcter! Moody insisted his go the "right" way. He's sharper than he looks!
Actually since YOU put that one on I need to see what Miles has on the other Jim's guitar. I want to hear some first hand on why the two of them have the same grain of walnut - where there more in the family? |
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Location: South Jersey | There's something about a koa topped acoustic and a Marshall half stack that's just right, ya know?
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Location: Paris/France | Hello,
Elias is selling a 1778-KGC.
Very nice and detailed pics:
1778-KGC KOA
The Koa top is really nice!!!
J :) |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Koa is pretty, used to be the standard for "Hawiaan" steel guitars, Steel Guitars, it has never been a good acoustic wood for an acoustic guitar, the grain does not have the desired straightness like spruce, and tends to muffle the sound of an acoustic. The best Koa "steel" I ever saw was built by John Dopyro and had a resonator and a pickup built in so the Koa was mostly cosmetic, a feature that almost all recognize as it's greatest use. If you like it's looks, BUY, if you like acoustic sound, LOOK AROUND!! |
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