Curly Koa???

[leatherneck]

Larry, you've done it now.

[Jim Neaves]

Thanks everyone,I found a piece that I do believe will make one of the absolute prettiest risers I have ever seen.

Jim

[Steve H.]

I have a bunch and might be able to hook you up.  Traveling in the morning so will be gone a while to answer a response.

[7eyes]

Koa is fairly soft for a riser.

[Jim Neaves]

I will be adding some layers of glass internally to the riser so it will stiffen it tremendously. No worries then!

Jim

[7eyes]

Sounds like that will be beautiful.

My local wood supplier has some four in slabs of curly and mottled Koa at $36 bf. One slab would be over $300 and you'd still lose some cutting out the premium wood. Expensive stuff, but beautiful.

[Steve H.]

Soft?  I cut into one piece an it seems hard as a rock, granite not shale.

It burns as bad or worse than purpleheart or chechen.