Many Thanks to Bob Gleason, the long time owner of Pegasus Guitars on the big island of Hawaii for the Curly Koa in this Parlor Guitar. I visited his home a few years ago after he had visited mine on Maui where his mother lived. He has a wonderful wife, a home in the country, and his shop is much nicer than mine, so full of wonderful woods and a few hours of stories… At one point he asked if I ever made instruments with one piece backs, and I said Yes, but it is hard to find great woods in wider widths. So I turned around as he handed me a one foot wide, five foot long board of Curly Koa , saying… I have saved this board for 35 years, thinking I would make an Archtop out of it. But I never did, and probably won’t: I never did make many archtops, and I keep busy doing my own things. I want you to have this, and I want you to make something very nice with it.

This sweet little guitar has a truss rod, an Ebony adjustable bridge, an extra special headstock logo , and 8 Sea Turtles working their way up the fretboard. It has a Fishman pickup that is not Passive as most of mine are; it is Active, and the battery hides inside the body and behind a Rosewood door

   I can only hope to have made Bob proud.

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