walnut or koa?

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Koa or walnut?

Koa
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Walnut
11
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walnut or koa?

Unread post by Pickles » Thu Mar 06, 2003 7:01 pm

i know a lot of you might prefer rosewood, but if you had to pick between the 2, which would you pick?
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Unread post by Speenis » Thu Mar 06, 2003 7:56 pm

Don't know much about KOA, but from what I've heard, I don't like Walnut. I remember reading in the Taylor magazine about walnut and id didn't appeal to me too much.
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Unread post by Pickles » Thu Mar 06, 2003 7:58 pm

what did you hear about it?
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Unread post by Speenis » Thu Mar 06, 2003 8:03 pm

I really have no clue. I remember reading about their walnut series about a year ago, and for some reason I didn't like them.
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Unread post by gravedigger » Thu Mar 06, 2003 9:04 pm

Walnut is pretty ugly. Koa is beautiful and sounds great as well.
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Unread post by Pickles » Thu Mar 06, 2003 9:06 pm

i dont know about the sound but i agree that koa is beautiful.
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Unread post by marc_roy » Fri Apr 01, 2005 9:03 pm

Tried a JC-16WE today back to back with an HD-28, some gibsons, Larivee and taks.

While other guitars couldn't compete, the HD-28 only sounded better than the walnut guit when strumming hard. I'm a big fan of the HD-28 (have owned an 810 too) but that JC-16we was the shit!

Big vote for walnut. Haven't been impressed by koa's sound or price (but it is pretty!!)
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Unread post by jsgksu » Fri Apr 01, 2005 9:13 pm

I played a Taylor Walnut 12 and it sounded fucking amazing, never played a Koa but they are much more beautiful.
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Unread post by mangold » Fri Apr 01, 2005 10:31 pm

Walnut for sound. no contest. koa is a vanity wood
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Unread post by MahlerGrooves » Fri Apr 01, 2005 10:37 pm

Walnut and koa are both beautiful, but Koa is only found in Hawaii, and I am all for allowing it to not die out just to make guitars.
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Unread post by MWR » Fri Apr 01, 2005 11:22 pm

This is totally subjective but the best sounding Martin I've played was a Koa/spruce combo. Had a lot of wonderful overtones.
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Unread post by juineaux » Mon Apr 04, 2005 6:24 am

I picked koa because it ussauly looks better than walnut. Walnut can look really good or really bad, koa ussauly looks good unless its the brownish dull kind. From what I've seen Black acacia is a really popular alternative to both woods:

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Unread post by CWMCALL » Mon Apr 04, 2005 8:01 am

I have a Taylor 314ce ltd Koa and it sounds great and looks just as good

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Unread post by Kahn » Mon Apr 04, 2005 9:24 am

CWMCALL wrote:I have a Taylor 314ce ltd Koa and it sounds great and looks just as good

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Unread post by mangold » Mon Apr 04, 2005 1:51 pm

juineaux wrote:I picked koa because it ussauly looks better than walnut. Walnut can look really good or really bad, koa ussauly looks good unless its the brownish dull kind. From what I've seen Black acacia is a really popular alternative to both woods:

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