(they also offered a solid color version, but i'm not talking about that one.) around 2023, they also reissued what appears to be the same instrument I'll assume that due to 23 years time frame that the pickups. I own a 50th anniversary korina historic explorer and a mahogany usa explorer in natural Compared to each other acoustically, the korina model is much brighter and nasal. There has been speculation that the epiphone korinas have cheap wood of a different type under the veneer In my case, i have a flying v epiphone
Looking at the sides and under the pickup cavities of my v, i can say it's definitely korina but is in pieces, glued together They just look so good, the. Korina (or limba) is a great tonewood, period, and will work with all kinds of guitars It's probably just tradition that it's associated with setnecks because it was gibson that first popularized korina, and it's closer to the mahogany end of the spectrum than it is to alder or ash. I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on which wood i should choose Sound wise, i do like my strat and would be happy if the mustang, whilst its own beast, sounded somewhat like the strat.
That, and a few personal issues, made me not buy that reverend. There seems not many options of sg style guitars compared to s, t, lp even es or jm style ones Gibson's current basic sg models are a bit frustrating to. Korina body, flame maple top, lindy fralin steel pole pickups, old dimarzio bridge I had four old strats at the time and wanted something different.
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