For 6 months i'd been searching for a pretty slab of Hawaiin Koa to send to Erik Smith of Crow Hill guitars to build me a fully hollow (small) body electric guitar. Why Koa wood? Well i'm a Phish Phan and the guitar playing of Trey Anastasio had a profound influence over me. I grew up on Slash, Jimmy Page, Hendrix, Clapton, but Trey's playing is on another level altogether and incorporates influences from all of those guys and a hundred others as well. He pulls from a wide array of genres including Blues, Jazz, Classical, Bluegrass, Latin, Broadway, Orchestral etc and i'll spend a life-time learning his compositions and the theory behind them. I digress... The point is he plays a hollow body guitar custom built for him by Paul Languedoc, a Local Burlington Guitar builder (and later to become Phish's sound engineer) and while he has now built nearly 10 guitars for him the ones that sing to me like no other guitars i have ever heard are Koa1, 2 and 3 (the Ocedoc -...