Koa 1

Precious Wood on Steroids

We designed and built this stylish guitar for Bernd Kiltz from Gitarrenlehreronline.de. Bernd wanted a real premium guitar that would truly shine in his videos. The choice therefore fell on a AAAAA quality koa top with an intensely flamed grain as a 5mm “drop top” (meaning the top is bent downwards in the armrest area and glued in place). The body was made of very light and extremely resonant red cedar, which Bernd had already loved on his NH1.
Bernd chose a superbly beautiful Pale Moon Ebony fingerboard to contrast the top, which was glued to a lightweight spanish cedar neck with inserted carbon rods. We then added black ebony bindings and 22 polished EVO frets.
Matching gold hardware was, of course, used – the tuners with ebony buttons were provided by Schaller, and the fixed bridge came from Hipshot USA.
Last but not least, Andreas Kloppmann once again delighted us with his pickups: this time, we used the Hammer & Anvil set – perfect for those who want to give it a little extra power and punch.

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Description

Specs

Body: Red Cedar
Neck: Cedro / Spanish Cedar
Top: Koa Drop Top
Fretboard: Pale Moon Ebony, 25.5″ (648mm) Scale, 22 medium EVO frets
Pickups: Kloppmann handwound pickups // Hammer & Anvil HB Set
Electronic: 3-Way Pickup selector switch; Mastervolume + Tone
Hardware: Gold; Schaller Locking Tuners; Hipshot fixed bridge
Construction: Bolt-On
Finish: Natural Highgloss

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