There is this recent Epiphone Les Paul model that featured a koa top. Link to Epiphone's product page for this guitar: http://www.epiphone.com/Products/Les...m-PRO-KOA.aspx
I've been reading through the multitude of User reviews posted on various dealer/retailer websites to try and determine if the koa top is going to yield a tonal difference vs a maple top. Very few of the reviews speak to that point, and those that do are vague about what the tonal differences are.
I am familiar with the online descriptions of koa as a tone wood, but those don't seem very applicable to this particular application because those mostly approach it as a side or top wood on an acoustic guitar.
So, whether it is this particular koa Epiphone vs a similar maple top Epiphone, or some other make of Les Paul type that was available in both koa- and maple-tops, does anyone here have experience with this to comment on what, if any, are the tonal differences, and how subtle or not those tonal differences are?
My gut suspicion is that the koa top will be warmer but only very subtley so.
I've been reading through the multitude of User reviews posted on various dealer/retailer websites to try and determine if the koa top is going to yield a tonal difference vs a maple top. Very few of the reviews speak to that point, and those that do are vague about what the tonal differences are.
I am familiar with the online descriptions of koa as a tone wood, but those don't seem very applicable to this particular application because those mostly approach it as a side or top wood on an acoustic guitar.
So, whether it is this particular koa Epiphone vs a similar maple top Epiphone, or some other make of Les Paul type that was available in both koa- and maple-tops, does anyone here have experience with this to comment on what, if any, are the tonal differences, and how subtle or not those tonal differences are?
My gut suspicion is that the koa top will be warmer but only very subtley so.
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