The rest of the drying process then takes place inside kilns designed specifically for drying wood The other problem with korina, according to wilson, is that the wood is highly susceptible to. Epiphone in around year 2000 issued a reissue '58 korina natural finish version (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. Ive got a hamer korina jr single p90
Bought it here from fellow member willhutch in 2008 I dont have any other korina guitar and not really familiar with what korina contributes to the tone of a guitar My hamer sounds loud aggresive and dynamic with lots of high end and mid high The fitment for the “standard” epi korina explorer might be a bit different I am going to improve my 2001 korean epi explorer It needs a fretjob and i'm going to swap a few parts to make it a bit less plasticky
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. In my experience korina has always tended to be a lighter weight wood, lighter than mahogany I've owned 2 korina guitars, a hamer v and a now own a gibson version Both lightweight and both sang with that beautiful mid/upper mid sweetness that people always talk about when talking about korina. 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 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. 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.
