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Brock Poling
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Lance and I would like you to welcome Volcano Guitar Works as our newest sponsor. The proprietors Doug and Alan Degenhart have some of the finest Koa you will find anywhere.

You really owe it to yourself to check out their new web site www.volcanoguitarworks.com

And Alan supplied me with a synopsis of their harvesting process. I think you will enjoy this.

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Logs purchased from Hawaii are loaded into containers and shipped by boat to California, where they travel by rail to Columbus, Ohio. From there they are placed on a truck and transported to our millyard in Millfield.





Once the container reaches our millyard, it is unloaded using a front-end loader.





The majority of logs are then split via chainsaw into manageable cants that are small enough to be placed on the mill.





Cants are then placed on the mill and cut into roughly ?” slices.





Guitar and ukulele patterns are then layed out on these slices and blocked out using a bandsaw. These pieces are resawn using a horizontal bandsaw, stickered, and then dried for several weeks.





... and here is a great example of the finished product. This is a set of premium 5A Koa I picked up from them not too long ago.





Considering these guys are right in my back yard I cannot tell you how excited I am to see them come aboard.

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Gee Brock, I checked out their site, boy have they got some Kracker koa    he-he, ya get it? Volcano Guitar Works.... KrackerKoa! ahh guess ya had to be there, it was an aussie thang.

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Brock Poling
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Yeah... Cracker means a whole different thing here. ;-)


But I agree..... their Koa is fantastic.Brock Poling38985.4241550926

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"Logs purchased from Hawaii are loaded into containers and shipped by
boat to California, where they travel by rail to Columbus, Ohio. From there
they are placed on a truck and transported to our millyard in Millfield. "

    Wow...

Great pics...!
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Hey Brock!

Thanks for the visual trip on a Big scale!

Are any of this wood going to be available to us OLF'ers?

Thanks again,
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Welcome to Volcano Guitar Works, great looking koa for sure!


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Welcome aboard.

Pretty wood!!
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Brock Poling
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[QUOTE=WalterK] Hey Brock!

Thanks for the visual trip on a Big scale!

Are any of this wood going to be available to us OLF'ers?

Thanks again,
walter[/QUOTE]


Yeah, if you click through to their web site they have a lot of wood you can buy online. I just bought another set this morning....


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Doug and Alan,
Glad to see you all aboard! You've joined a great and supportive community of fine luthiers.

Steve
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Welcome On!

Good to see the progress pics. That's cheating though splitting with a chainsaw isn't it .

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Welcome!!
Can't wait too see more....

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I looked at that set this morning... it was between that and one other.... It was a tough decision.

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Holy schmolly Hesh, great buy!


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That is some fine Koa.

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I played a Morgan some time ago, all Koa, and could easily look and listen to the stuff forever. It and the stuff here shown is just gorgeous.

Welcome Volcano folks!

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The Heshmiester, back on track! great purchase, I liked that set myself, but earlier today I quickly turned my computer off to avoid WAS.

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Holy (rhymes with spit)...

I had no idea Koa trees were that big...

Wow!!!

Hesh, you're just a zoot (rhymes with boar)!!!

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This is both wonderful, and terrible news.
Wonderful, because I always knew that Doug had the best Koa around.
Terrible, because I'm already wood poor. This won't help a thing.

Doug, it's just great having you here, and I really look forward to buying all your wood.

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