Bill,
Thanks for the explanation and for the warm welcome. What you are saying makes perfect sense. As I understand it Kanilea has not made any Ukes for anyone else since roughly 2009. So the uke I purchased was made before the TRU bracing was introduced At the time Joe Souza was making Ukes for Lanikai the Lanikai Uke probably was identical to the Kanilea K-1 super concert that was being manufactured at that time. I would not expect a 3 year old NOS uke to have any of the recent innovations.
When I get it, I will definitely let you know how it sounds. Even without the newest bracing I suspect that it being made by Souza's hands with an all select koa body that the tone will be pretty pleasing!
At least I hope so!
Mahalo again
Mark