Koa Mix Custom Ukulele - For Sale $1650
Too much is not enough! Koa that is. Here’s a new super tenor uke with a mixture of koa visual textures. This is a Koa Mix Custom Ukulele.
Compression curl koa sound board.
It’s All About The Woods
Body: crinkle curl koa.
Crinkle curl koa body.
Sound Board: compression curl Koa. I started the build with the idea of using a traditional western red cedar. This would be a good choice for both appearance and sound, especially since I had planned on using the koa fret board and bridge. But…..I lost it and guess I just had to go for it. It’s not quite a FrankenUke but close. A FrankenUuke has every piece of the build a different wood. Hmmm, an all koa FrankenUke?
Neck: stacked curl koa. Sanded epoxy finish.
Stacked curl neck.
Fret Board and Bridge: radiused, stabilized blister curl koa.
Stabilized and radiused blister curl koa fret board.
Binding: blond curly koa with maple/black purfling accents.
Accent Woods: koa, koa, koa.
Blond, curly koa binding.
The Rest of the Build
Nut and Saddle: unbleached bone.
Tuners: Gotoh UPT.
Curly koa neck.
Strings: Romero low G.
Case: Crossrock ABS.
And
It’s got all the looks you could possibly want in Koa and it sounds pretty darn good to boot–good volume, good sustain and a rich voice–at least, to my ear. So gang-a-roony, if koa is your thang then maybe this Koa Mix Custom Ukulele should be yours.
