I stumbled onto a super good deal on a locally built Weissenborn.
Another name for Weissenborn in my case is "new instrument to distract me from actually mastering the instruments I already had".
It has a repaired crack in the top running down from between the 2nd and 3rd bridge pins (seems very stable, and not very obvious when you look at the top), and this resulted in a dramatic price reduction.
It's beautiful, and has wonderful tone and volume.
I'm not yet a slide player of any sort, but that will change soon.
Thus far the sounds I've gotten out of it range from something resembling music, to sounds akin to the howling of a dog in great pain.
(But I know it is not the fault of the instrument - the guy I bought it from played it for me and it was wonderful.)
It is all koa, and really beautiful!
