I am keeping this one!

[Burl Source]

....at least until I see something I like better.
I sent it to K&G roughcut. I could tell it was going to be decent,
but when I sanded it......:shocked3:

http://i901.photobucket.com/albums/ac219/burlsource/feb12/k004.jpg
http://i901.photobucket.com/albums/ac219/burlsource/feb12/k003.jpg

[Andrew H]

Wow.

[Mint427]

That's really impressive.

[Burl Source]

http://youtu.be/TWt_wjMvZE0

[Eamon Burke]

This is the wood you have to keep to show vendors when they ask what you want.

[Dave Martell]

What a tease!

[tk59]

I'm sorry, Mark. I'm gonna be the only honest one here and tell you it's the ugliest piece of koa I've ever seen. You should just toss it in with my next order. I might use it to experiment with finishes or something.

[Burl Source]

I'm sorry, Mark. I'm gonna be the only honest one here and tell you it's the ugliest piece of koa I've ever seen. You should just toss it in with my next order. I might use it to experiment with finishes or something.

Maybe I could sand it real smooth and paint it black or something.


What a tease!

I know.
But there were a few more with this batch and a bunch of others being done by K&G right now.
Not positive but I think some of them might look even better.

[mr drinky]

Seriously? A video? Mark should be banned from wood video.

k.

[rmbonham]

i would keep it as well. That is the most amazing koa I have seen.

[Mike Davis]

Damn Mark...Dave is right....That is just incredible.

[Burl Source]

I figured Koa like this might knock people like Johnny Chance off the fence.
Through the next month I will be getting a bunch of really good koa back from stabilizing.
The guitar reject piece is going to have some real good reddish fiddleback.
I cut up an underground stump piece that will have super 3D compression curl.
And there is some I never showed anyone that came from an old stash that was inherited about 20 years ago.