Re: New V day
Edit: should have checked the serial number.
That's my old one that I sent to TC in gratitude for returning my Hamer. It's definitely not Korina. I bought it, brand new in 2002 or 2003, in Japan during a port call in Sasebo because there were 2 Vs in the store, an overpriced 67 ri that played like crap and that thing which blew it out of the water. They relocated the strap button for me right there, no extra charge. Either way, it came with all the case candy (though no case) that's still floating around here, somewhere. I'd have kept it but for the small frets which, oddly enough, don't bother me much these days.
I hope that Gibson comes off the hs without any damage because under that halfass Gibson clone is a cool (and rare) MIJ.
Those aren't the stock pups, either, though I know I sent them out with it. They're Tesla Vintage 60s or some such that I wanted to try out. I was impressed, so they stayed in, not that the stock Gotohs were bad at all.
It's called a BFV-58 and there WERE Korinas but they were BFV-58Ks and there were only a few. A guy on the MLP has one.