On Korina

[uwe]

So that is why they used it so rarely. I like to think of it as a mix of alder and mahogany in sound.

http://www.gibson.com/en%2Dus/Lifestyle/Features/korinawoodmakesgreatguitar/

[Basvarken]

Did they ever use Korina on bass guitars?
I've always loved the "nosey/middish" and resonant sound of a Flying V.

Maybe that doesn't work on bass?

[OldManC]

Makes me think a Korina Thunderbird would be a great addition...

[uwe]

I've got two full korina basses: My Gibson custom shop short scale Explorer bass and my Tonfuchs custom built bass. Those korina basses sound great, blurrier than maple, brighter than mahogany and more bass than alder.





Tonfuchs is blue thing on the right:



The (now deleted) Epiphone Explorer bass also featured a korina body they said. It at least sounds like it.

[Chris P.]

I like the Tonfuchs bass, though I love some other models from the Tobfuchs site better.

I'd forgotten that you have a Reverend two. I used to have one. Nice bass, but I never played it.

[uwe]

I like my Reverend Brad Houser (spelling?), it has a voice of its own and is one of my favorite five strings. Pity they stopped making them.

Uwe

[sniper]

just for grins and giggles uwe, what kind of wood is used in the neck of the Gibby custom?

[OldManC]

just for grins and giggles uwe, what kind of wood is used in the neck of the Gibby custom?

I thought for those grins you were going to ask what wood was used in the Brad Houser... 

[sniper]

nah, just scored a NOS mudbucker and i'm thinking Korina with one of those maple Gibby necks on ebay. i have always respected uwe and his breakdown on wood tones.

thoughts on my next project as my version of an LP is drawing close to fruition.

maybe in an SG shape?

[exiledarchangel]

Uwe, you're just too show-off, you're always finding excuses to show around some tasty basses.
But I forgive you, Germany is a great country.

[Chris P.]

Uwe, you're just too show-off, you're always finding excuses to show around some tasty basses.
But I forgive you, Germany is a great country.

Not long ago, Uwe didn't even had pics of his basses, later he asked his daughter to make some pics, so he isn't thát show-off-ish;)

[uwe]

The Custom Shop Explorer has a Korina neck - in that way it is not an exact replica of the handful of fifties Explorers which were Explorer guitar korina bodies with EB 2 maho necks (Explorer headstock grafted on) and a mudbucker. But the "wealthy-Texan-car-salesman-who-divorced-and-it-all-went-down-from-there"- preowner, who had a fifties original, specified when this was built in the early eighties that it be all Korina just like the guitars. There are no issues with stability, if anything Korina is more stable than mahogany.

That said, I could see a maple neck fit well too sonically, give the whole thing more snap.

Uwe

[uwe]

Uwe, you're just too show-off, you're always finding excuses to show around some tasty basses.
But I forgive you, Germany is a great country.

Hey, it was getting kind of quiet around here so I thought I'd start a conversation on something! 

[Chris P.]

Isn't the neck on that first Explorer mahogany? It seems to be slightly darker than the body, so I thought it was mahogany.

[exiledarchangel]

I know guys, just joking!