I just drilled and glued some curly koa wood blanks. My question is what should be a good finish for that wood, I have never used any koa before. On the other pens I have made I have alway used a couple of coats of shellac/wax mix, polished it and then put on some hut wax over the top. I have only a small amount of koa and dont want to screw it up. I actually just picked it up personally on Maui a week ago. My wife and i were there and we stopped in a small gallery where a fellow was making all sorts of high end free form sculptures, mostly from koa and these were small scraps left from that. Anyway one thing led to another and I am going to mail a couple of pens to him, he was interested in selling them in his gallery. We saw some really nice wood items, custom made stuff. An especially nice stop was a gallery in Hana, actually the only gallery in Hana. It is adjacent to a high dollar hotel. The lady that runs it is really personable. She has some really good furniture, several norfolk island pine vessels, etc. and a lot of paintings, prints, etc She also has 3 NIP bowls made by Ron Kent locked in a display case, they were for sale. She saw me admiring them and took them out so I could handle them. I guess they dont move too fast as the same bowls were there a year ago. If I remember right they were priced in the neighborhood of $3000 each. Anyway what should I use on the koa pens? Thanks in advance Jared