Looking at Kanile'a deluxe koa guitarlele (GL6-D S#14642).

After DownupDave sent me photos of his new l'iwi uke, I went on HMS to have a better look at it. Dang Dave, you did it again with another spectacular find.

Anyway, I got to looking at the guitarlele GL-6D. Being an old guitar player, I miss the steel string sound and have been waiting on the Pono UL4 series to come out. This model has me intrigued and thinking about adding a six string A tuned instrument to the stable.

Has anyone played the GL-6? Is it string steel or nylon; neck width? I wrote Andrew and know he'll send the specs.. In the meantime, I thought I'd ask any of you.

The UAS has struck and there is no relenting til it's satisfied.
Thanks.

So......you're blaming it all on me :biglaugh:

Cool, I can live with being an awesome enabler . Anything to help out a friend find the fix he needs :music:

Hi Pat..i am going down to the HMS store today..i will see what Corey says about this uke and let you know.....take care for now

Wow, that's a great-sounding instrument, and Corey seems to be channeling Lenny Breau in the video, with all those harmonics!

Hi Pat...looks like 14642 is at Andrew's office...but 14643 is here at the store...super nice reddish/brownish Koa and has curl it it ...looks real nice...Corey says all the GL-6 ukes sound about the same....and he likes um....good luck

Patrick, the GL6 is made for nylon strings, not steel. Scale length is about the same as a baritone, nut width is 51 mm or 2", much like a classical guitar. A little too wide for my hand, but other than that, it's a real fun instrument. If you want a small steel string guitar, Pono makes the UL model with six strings as well, looks like they're available right now:

http://ponoguitar.com/index.php/ul-40sp-small-body-parlor-guitar-200.html