Gibsun 1959 Korina Explorer

[jmh151]

Re: Gibsun 1959 Korina Explorer

It doesn't matter what colour it is or what colour you pain it...there are NO Korina trees anywhere in the world and there is no finish on this planet called Limba...Limba is a wood, korina is a finish. If your Limba guitar has a honey colour to it naturally then good for you but calling it korina wood keeps a long time myth alive...a myth that is completely wrong!

Do you want to end the myth that there is no Santa Clause too?

Seriously, with Epiphone, they should be chastised for telling the public their explorer's and V's are Korina, when in fact they're made of some mystery wood. Saying a guitar is "mahogany" doesn't tell you if it's Honduran, Phillipine, South American or Brazilian mahogany, each of which have very different visual, weight, and tonal characteristics.... So should you also chastise companies which merely say their guitars are built from mahogany?

 

[JacksonMIA]

Re: Gibsun 1959 Korina Explorer

Seriously, with Epiphone, they should be chastised for telling the public their explorer's and V's are Korina, when in fact they're made of some mystery wood.

No more than anyone else who advertises guitars made of Korina.

They might as well call it rare Corinthian onyx wood.




I'm going to go play my Jackson now, and it's made out of sunburst wood from the rare suburst trees of southern California.

 

[jmh151]

Re: Gibsun 1959 Korina Explorer

No more than anyone else who advertises guitars made of Korina.

They might as well call it rare Corinthian onyx wood.




I'm going to go play my Jackson now, and it's made out of sunburst wood from the rare suburst trees of southern California.

That's something Ed Roman does