Wholesale Supply
Veneers sold online are regularly in stock on Oahu and if in stock available for purchase. Any others online can be custom ordered and please contact us directly. If you are the Big Island or Maui please visit our distributors found on our dealer page who often have stock available locally.
Guitar and Ukulele sets are not sold online. Please contact us for current availability. There is a minimum $1,500 purchase. We will send pictures of the sets we chose for final approval before shipping. We do not take pictures of many sets for customers to choose a few. We do our best to match top, back and sides, but Koa changes so much in color and figure even in the same tree it will not always be perfectly matching.
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Koa Guitar Sets
We produce Koa guitar sets for electric guitar tops and solid electric guitar body blanks. Winkler Woods mainly supply figured, curly and high grade Hawaiian Koa tonewood for electric guitars to its customers worldwide. However, we also produce electric guitar sets made from Hawaiian Mango wood from time to time. As for other exotic tonewoods, it will depend on wood stock availability. Most of our tonewood products are made to order, customers can inquire or request a custom order.
We sell high quality Koa electric guitar tonewood and the pricing of our Koa electric guitar tops will depend on the grade level of Koa tonewood used in making them. We have 2A, 3A, 4A and 5A grades available, the curl of Koa wood is much better on higher grades. Visit Grades of Koa page to learn more about our tonewood grading system.
Koa Guitar Set #1 Electric Guitar Tops
A sample look of our Koa guitar set for electric guitar tops. The Hawaiian Koa tonewood used for this set is master grade 5A (Super Curly Koa). We produce Koa electric guitar sets for other grades as well 2A, 3A and 4A.
Grade: 5A Super Curl
Sets: Guitar Tops
Specie: Hawaiian Koa
Koa Guitar Set #2 Electric Guitar Tops
Another sample look of our Koa guitar set for electric guitar tops. The Hawaiian Koa tonewood used for this set is master grade 5A (Super Curly Koa). We produce Koa electric guitar sets for other grades as well 2A, 3A and 4A.
Grade: 5A Super Curl
Sets: Guitar Tops
Specie: Hawaiian Koa
Koa Guitar Set #3 Electric Guitar Tops
Another sample look of our Koa guitar set for electric guitar tops. The Hawaiian Koa tonewood used for this set is master grade 5A (Super Curly Koa). We produce Koa electric guitar sets for other grades as well 2A, 3A and 4A.
Grade: 5A Super Curl
Sets: Guitar Tops
Specie: Hawaiian Koa
Our Sourcing of Hawaiian Koa Tonewood for Electric Guitar Sets
Winkler Woods is capable to supply Hawaiian Koa electric guitar sets as wholesale for business-to-business and retail for luthiers. Our sourcing of high grade and curly Hawaiian Koa came from the Big Island of Hawaii. We harvest and salvage Hawaiian Koa trees that were damaged by natural environmental factors, most of the time we can find them in the summits of Mauna Loa, then process the woods as logs to be turned into lumber, tonewood, and veneer. We do all the processing from green to final product in our workshop on Oahu, Hawaii. Since newly harvested Hawaiian Koa still has a high amount of moisture content within, we will then prepare the Koa wood for treatment and drying process. The time duration of drying and finishing "green" Koa can take up to six to eight months depending on the condition of the wood.
Curly Koa Electric Guitar Grades: Medium, Heavy and Super Curl
Our Hawaiian Koa tonewood for electric guitar sets are cut quarter sawn and we measure their qualities by curl, size, figure, stripness and color. Koa wood is graded by strength and depth of curl or evidence of figure and character, this is our way to determine the grade level of a Koa tonewood piece. Master Grade 5A being the highest because of the tonewood's strong and deep curl within the template. A Koa tonewood with stronger and deeper curl is more expensive because it produce better sounds.
➤ Super Curl (Master Grade 5A) - Excellent, strong, deep curl no less than 90% and no blemishes within the template.
➤ Heavy Curl - strong curl and figure, usually throughout the entire plate, generally visible from all angles.
➤ Medium Curl - pervasive curl yet may disappear or look stronger at certain angles or have bald spots.
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