Chris' Design Notes

Introduction of Three Koa Colors!

I am excited today to announce 3 New Stained Colors of our very popular AAA Curly Hawaiian Koa capos.  There are several reasons why we are making this move.  First, I love Curly Hawaiian Koa.  Its natural color can range from golden yellow to dark chocolate in color.  It can also get so figured, curly and beautiful that it can blow your mind with its beauty.  Second, we have a Hawaiian Koa Reforestation Commitment as it relates to Hawaiian Koa and thus we can ensure its sustainability and regrowth. 

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Our New Quickship & Build-To-Order Strategy

I'm sure that your noticed that we offer a lot of design variety in our products.  In fact, we now offer over 35,000 different variations... Yes, I know that is way, way too many :) It is just that nice customers like you kept asking us for new and different things and we had a hard time saying no.

But that philosophy created some operational problems for us.  Read this article to see how we fixed it.

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Developing New Hawaiian Koa Stain Colors & Finishes

One of the ways that we plan to expand the proliferation of Hawaiian Koa across our product portfolio is with the introduction of color.  So this week I thought I would share some of the experiments that we are doing with regards to Hawaiian Koa staining & finishing.  Here are some of the colors that we are playing with...

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Hawaiian Koa: Thalia's New Sustainability Mission
We have embarked on an exciting plan that we will be explaining in more detail over the coming months.   But here is what I can tell you now about what we have planned...  We have decided to take on a new mission as it relates to Hawaiian Koa and sustainability.  
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Creating a Better Fretpad & Solution for 12-Strings

Today, we are excited to launch OctaveTouch™, our new patent-pending fretpad technology. This is a 12-string solution that turns any 200 series capo into the best 12-string capo in the world.  Watch the video above for details and read on if you would like to read the full backstory of how this new technology came to be.

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