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#8
flea claypool said:
not sure bout a koa neck but check out the victor bailey he has a koa jazz and it is delicious
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Warmoth will build a neck out of koa ...

mine is koa body with koa neck , front is zebra wood ...
wonderful tone wood , very stable as neck material {due to Warmoth super-bass construction } ...
 
#11
tekhna asked: Which Aero is that at the bridge?
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Pardon the delay in answering - I didn't get back on line until today. When I first assembled this bass (in '82) I had 3 DiMarzio J's in it. I filed the ears off a pair, glued them together and had the rout expanded for them. Those are pretty hot pickups to start with. With the third the output was sizzling, way more than I needed. With this incarnation I decided to go with only a pair of Aero's and they are the bomb IMO! Great pickups!!! Anyway, that's an empty cover below the bridge pickup (with a strip of aluminum foil inside to look like polepieces) to cover the hole.

Now that looks a bit special.
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Thank you very much!!! :D
 
#12
I had a Peavey RSB with a solid Koa body. I haven't touched it in about a year, as I sold it to a friend, and my tastes have changed since I sold it. Getting Koa instruments I feel is going to start to get difficult in the next decade or so, as it's already on endangered species lists. Hope this helped in some way,

Ray
 
#15
I believe that Koa has the same tonal characteristics as Mahogany, and Mahogany is a great sounding body wood, so I think that Koa would be a fantastic choice. I'm not sure about it as a neck wood, but I have seen a bass that Mike Tobias built entirely from Koa that looked very nice, so if he thinks it can be suitable for a neck wood, that's good enough for me.
 
#16
here's a "koamohag" J with a unmarked Moses neck(my thumbs are really crappy, sorry)...in case you're wondering the marker dots are not off center, neither are the strings, sort of....The distance between the outside of the strings are equal, not the distance between the center of the strings..I'm not really sure if it makes much difference or not, so it was probably a wast of time..If you are planning to get Koa as a top wood only it won't have a huge effect on the sound, but opinions on this can vary...bottom line is it is a great looking wood and gets lot's of comments...
 

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Halftooth said:
I believe that Koa has the same tonal characteristics as Mahogany, and Mahogany is a great sounding body wood, so I think that Koa would be a fantastic choice. I'm not sure about it as a neck wood, but I have seen a bass that Mike Tobias built entirely from Koa that looked very nice, so if he thinks it can be suitable for a neck wood, that's good enough for me.
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Victor Bailey jazz is made of Koa and Mahogany, Maybe that's why it sounds sooo goood! :bassist:
 

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