Author Topic: Nice early SC Signature (Read 206 times)

Enzo · « **on:** February 14, 2010, 10:20:05 AM »

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280465020439&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

With that price, the make an offer option is mandatory

keith_h · « **Reply #1 on:** February 14, 2010, 12:40:02 PM »

Way over priced Buy It Now.

Keith

lembic76450 · « **Reply #2 on:** February 14, 2010, 01:07:51 PM »

Unless he has case candy stating that it is Koa,
it really doesn't look it to me. Possibly Walnut?

dannobasso · « **Reply #3 on:** February 14, 2010, 03:35:21 PM »

Not Koa to my eyes.

mike1762 · « **Reply #4 on:** February 14, 2010, 05:22:28 PM »

I wonder how many of these went out the door with a Stanley sticker. Is he claiming the body is Koa or the top/back? The top/back look like cocobolo. Maybe the $8,000 was metric dollars.

bsee · « **Reply #5 on:** February 14, 2010, 09:42:36 PM »

While I wouldn't stand up and say that's definitely koa, the pics are all on the dark side and the grain does look sort of koa like. I think it would take a more accurate picture or a wood card to tell the tale. Koa neck stringers would be pretty unusual, but who knows what sort of experiments they were doing with wood types back in '87.

In any case, at $8K for a signature instrument, it almost wouldn't matter what the woods were in terms of value.

glocke · « **Reply #6 on:** February 15, 2010, 12:10:16 AM »

Definitely not Koa to my eyes either. Its also priced about $4000.00 too much.

cozmik_cowboy · « **Reply #7 on:** February 15, 2010, 07:00:12 AM »

My guess is maple & purpleheart neck, mahagony core w/maple lams & rosewood top & back. I don't see anything that remotely resembles koa.

Peter

jedisan · « **Reply #8 on:** February 15, 2010, 09:01:28 AM »

Yep, I say rosewood too. I had one of these from around the same build date. And I believe on these models, especially with the signature on the headstock, rosewood was the go to wood for front and back at the time.

to_81_0190 · « **Reply #9 on:** February 26, 2010, 06:42:39 PM »

The discription is stating 'Body is Hawaiian Koa'. I have seen few Alembics with Koa center but I can't make it sure from pics. The top would be Indian Rosewood.