I'm not sure how many of you here work with Koa and what type of finish you put on it, but I was shown a different way of applying Danish oil on Koa by an older woodworker here. All the books and articles I've read say's to "soak" the wood with the oil until it stops soaking in, than to wipe off the excess. Well with Koa, you get endless leaching if you soak the wood with oil. I found that out the hard way and could never figure out how to stop that from happening. It was getting old having to constantly wipe off the leaching oil from the wood.
This older woodworker showed me a better way of putting oil on Koa. He sands down to a very fine grit and then burnishes the wood with an old worn out sandpaper which is basically paper. Then he wipes on the oil in a couple of very light coats and waxes after the final coat. No bubbling oil for days on end and leaves a very nice sheen.
If anybody has a different or better way of applying oil to Koa, I would like to hear about. Always willing to learn a better way of doing something.