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This is wrong. Oh, my.......I should have said; your Korina being of the lighter less dense type, resulting in warmer tone. I stand corrected. But this very well explains Marcels comments of having his guitar sound warmer then expected. He might have used a lighter Korina in combination with the more soft Maple of the neck.....resulting in overall more warm tone. The thin 5mm Maple on body was probably not able to bring out the highs enough.

In this neck they used ebony laminates. Great looking guitar. http://www.alembic.com/info/fc_fullspectrum.html

I think you made good decision to put the Bubinga stripes in. LOL!!!!......They can take his girlie, his house, his bike, car, boat, plane.....as long as they stay away from his guitar(s). ;-) Hahahahaha...... I read all this stuff about spalted maple, and other exotics.....what project are you working on now??? Cause it sounds mighty interesting.

Isn' that the most fun stage. And then you dig in, and discover you f*cked up by routing it the wrong way. ;-) If you use only the epoxy on the guitar I think you could have a hard time re-routing the pup cavities again. I would use combo of epoxy and almost fitting wood plugs. Even better option could be to route an even bigger area out and put in a total new wood midden section. This way you get frsh new neck pocket, new pickup area.......having only the fill the backside of this f*cked up trem route with epoxy. Just a thought.

Oh! Then I miss undertood. He was talking about planing/jointing. Couldn't really make of story what he wanted. For joining.......nice sharp cut and then little sanding. Although some advice against sanding. No proffesional equipment needs there, some good old clambs, glue and you're in business.

Why don't you plane everything to right thickness and then glue everything together. As wood is glued and clambed together it will move and work.....to prevent this, you could clamb two large falt pieces of wood on either side. Use wax paper to prevent flat clambing wood to glue to guitar wood. Planning to thickness with sandpaper would take for ever. You could also plane with router. Look at this thread for example: http://projectguitar.ibforums.com/index.ph...opic=8792&st=15 Good luck!!

Hey, Marcel we are with you on the Korina. No attacs!! Your comments are very valuable to us. Learning from other people's experiences, preferences. Can't wait to see how mine turns out. I will have laminated Wenge in Maple neck......but from what I learned Wenge has similar tonal signature as the maple. I have read some stories about this curly maple being awesome to look at, but troublesome in neck performance. They were talking about stability instead of tone.......but bassy tone could very well be result of neck. Building another all maple 7 string neck wouldn't hurt either. If it has no significant effect on tone, you can always build that 7 string Alder body to go with it. ;-) Gosh, would I love to have your guitar in my hands for a little jam.....just to know what mine will sound like. Or better......I must hurry up and finish mine. ;-)

I was thinking that they have done it from the back, but the cavity in the back is shorter than would have been necessary with this applications. What is a Parker Fly? I never heard of that. Darren, thanks for you comments. Will use these URL tags in future. A Korina 24 fret JS......yeah, that smells Ed Roman all over. ;-) If it's a custom I suspect the headstock was done on customer demand too. I don't like it either. And I think they could have done a better job of the cavity covers. $1500 for this guitar new would be good price, $2500 second hand is a joke. And who wants those ugly authographs on their guitar. I don't get these people who think their guitar is worth more with authographs on there. Steve and Joe must have signed hunderds guitars by now. And with little practise I could sign thes too. ;-)

Yeah, but how does it work if you want the http://.... link to be behind e.g the words Photo 2. So clicking the underlined word(s) will open the link.

You're right. Korina itself should have been tid bit brighter than regular mahogany. Adding maple top should have brought out some more brightness. The reasoning behind your choices, I could agree with. What I noticed, reading tons of material about Korina......that there is some difference in weight from one piece of Korina to the next. I hear people refer to it as being light, and some people referring to it as being heavy. I have seen similar stories with mahogany. Different LPs....all weigh differently. (And I know some are true solid bodies, some are hollow bodies, and some have weight relief holes) Comparing apples with apples, there seems to be difference in weight of LP guitars, and only can be explained by the difference in density (read: weight) of the actual mahogany wood blank. I suspect more dense, heavier wood will give darker tone. It could be that your Korina was of the more denser, heavier type, resulting in a warmer tone. Yeah....lol.....but this attitude is better for the builder than the player.... But aren't those 'players' not constantly in search of 'the' perfect sound and the builders just mearly accomodating them??? And then you have those basket cases who play AND build. Well that's the perfect recipe for disaster. ;-) Cause if Korina/Maple isn't giving you your fix, what would just regular Alder do. And would Alder/Maple not even be better. Then someone else suggests Alder/Maple with small layer of Korina. ;-) Darn 58 guitars later we are still building and playing and as we go along, our music taste goes from death metal, to classical Opera. ;-) Seymore Duncan Custom Custom you mean. And I was wrong with the K7, it has PAF7's. The RG8670 has the mahogany, Tone Zone, Air Norton combo.

I wonder how the pups are installed in that JS. In description on ebay it says, this is done so pups are direct mounted. (better sound). But this could have been done by attaching them from the back, cutting wholes through the hole body. That can't help the sound and sustain. Still one gorgeous guitar. (don't like the headstock...similar to LGMs new line, so I suspect he did this one too.)

JS style guitar on Ebay Isn't that great. ;-) Maybe stupid question, I wanted to link the last two pics as links to pics. So with the words Photo 2, 3 (underlined and then linked to http..... but I somehow I couldn't get it working. What code line do you use for this??? I tried this format: <A Href="http/...."> text </A> but that isn't it.

Hyunsu, can you please post some pics of your Ibamez screw up. Please!! It will boost the confidence level of "us" mortals up a notch. ;-)

I have read the color of the wood is really striking direct after cutting, but will get darker and more brown under influence of sunlight. Amazing color though.

You can have this "best" tone discussion forever. What one thinks is bassy, the other decribes as warm.....and then I haven't even mentioned the whole pups discussion. ;-) I think you're right on the money there. From your story I get you were looking for an Alder type tone from you Korina. You got a more Mahogany tone. That doesn't surprise me. Have you tried the K7 before you started building your Korina 7. Cause I suspect your sound to be close to this K7 sound. K7 also has Tone Zone 7, Air Norton 7 combo. I'm very curious how my Korina JS-7 will turn out. As I'm planning a Air Norton 7 neck and Blaze7 bridge pick-up, I think my JS will sound close to yours Marcel. Can't wait to hear mine. Would love to hear this extended range with nice warm, low, bassy sound. I mean that's why you play a 7 to begin with, right??? Some combinations of wood, also give some great tone. On the lespaulforum, I read a nice discussion about the all mahogany LP vs. the maple top mahogany LPs. The all mahogany seem to be darker, warmer, more bassy sounding. The maple on the regular LPs seem to bring out the brightness bit more. Korina seem to have tid brighther mahogany type sound. I heard some Korina V's and was very impressed with their sound. Almost like an LP on steriods. This guitar building is a one big journey to finding that great sound. And isn't the journey more important then the destination. What fun would it be, if some one handed you YOUR perfect guitar, with perfect tone. No more questions, no more what if, no more maybees...... I rather keep on searching, cause the hunt is much nicer than the catch. ;-)

As you're using some exotic wood, a ultra thin neck profile, it can never hurt putting the carbon rods in. Just my $0.02

Looks promising.

Marcel, what pups did you use in the Korina body???

Q: How should I plug it? With one huge formed plug? Or (certainly not)...with some kind of putty/wood filler? (I don't think so).... So check the thread othe guy building the Van Halen Kramer. He used some kinda epoxy to fill one of the pick-up routes. See you bought other LP type body on evil-bay, and was talking about putting a Strat style bridge in??? Isn't this how the other body is routed to begin with???????? And if I ever screw-up a body, I know whom I'm gonna off-load it to. ;-)

What type of neck wood are you using??? How thin are you planning your neck profile??? These things determine the need of carbon inserts. If you're using exotic wood next to an ultra thin neck profile I would consider carbon inserts. If your using maple with regular neck profile (LP, Universe type profile), I don't see the need for inserts. You see them more often in bass necks. In longer profile it adds strength. Having said that, ....using carbon adds to coolness factor of guitar built of course. ;-)

When cutting my Korina body the dust was giving me sneezes. ;-) Nothing serious though. And darn do I love those Korina LPs. Yam,yam,yam...

I voted Korina (Limba). From multiple source (internet, small custom building luthiers, magazine articles, etc............) they all seem to agree about the great tonal qualities of Korina. Reading reviews of Korina guitars, their owners/player clearly mark their Korina guitar among the nicest sounding guitars in their collection. Currently building Korina JS-7 and if tone lives up to expectation, I will do a Korina LP. Swamp ash, Alder, Basswood, Mahogany, Maple....they all seem to have their place in guitarland.....but somehow they miss the mistique that hangs around Korina.

I would suggest doing a search on RG in this website!!!!

What ever guitar forum you go to; jemsite, lespaulforum....almost everybody *HATES* good old Ed Roman. Funny thing is, that the more I learn about guitars and how they work, the more I realize.....that the stuff I've read on Ed's site seriously cuts wood. And of course he is plugging his own guitars, but it's easy to see through that... Most guitar companies are very conservative, you won't see Gibson come out with 25,5 scale Les Paul. Funny thing is....they have made 'm. As custom test versions. I have read posts of people seeing and playing them, and loving them. Same with Korina bodied LPs. They are a very limited few out there, and originally they had planned them. Unfortunately the shipment of Korina didn't arrive, or importer of wood had some trouble with getting things organized, so Gibson went ahead with Mahogany LP. The great thing with building your own copy is that you're no longer bound to the marketing departments of Gibson, Ibanez, Fender, etc.......you're only bound the limits of your imagination. From my JS-7 built I still have slap of Korina left. And that slap just screams LP to me. Up till now I never considered a LP. I just didn't like the neck.....to thick for me...but then your mind goes wondering......hmmmm Korina body......Ibanez style neck.......hmmmmm.......korina body with korina top, or maple top, or mahogany top.....hmmm......what would work better??? Mahogany neck, or maple neck.....or even Korina neck.....Definitely Ibanez style neck shape......24 frets, 25.5" scale.....and headsape??...RG, SC, or just regular LP???? The Gibson Custom department would laugh at me when proposing stuff like this (or ask me to hand over some serious ca$h and keep it quiet.) Isn't that the great thing of building guitars, you can make this wild ideas reality. And if everything just turns sour.......you can always burn the guitar....in the fire place, open a bottle of wine......and enjoy the flames. ;-)

Brrrrrr..........not my style. Sorry!