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Epiphone : 1958 Korina Explorer review. 2 reviews, 22 votes and 18 comments total
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1958 Korina Explorer Review

manufacturer: epiphone date: 01/09/2009 category: electric guitars
1958 Korina Explorer
 Features:8.5
 Sound:7.5
 Action:9
 Reliability:9.5
 Impression:9
 Overall rating:
 8.7 
 Users rating:
 9.3 
 Comments:
 18 
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overall: 8.6
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 comments posted
fretsonfire74 :
Don't like it in yellow, but it's a damn nice guitar.
POSTED: 11/19/2008 - 05:10 am / quote |
deadlydunc :
if it has a rosewood fretboard, what is finished in ebony?
POSTED: 11/19/2008 - 06:12 am / quote |
Underjoggle :
deadlydunc wrote:

if it has a rosewood fretboard, what is finished in ebony?
The body comes in natural Korina or Ebony finishes, it just happened to have the natural picture up.

POSTED: 11/19/2008 - 06:54 am / quote |
trashbeast :
The guitar..? Lol. Ebony=Black
POSTED: 11/19/2008 - 06:56 am / quote |
damskippy :
I've got an Epiphone Korina SG, not terribly fond of it. It has that Yellow Korina finish as well, I added gold hardware and it looks pretty damn cool. If only it played as well as it looks. The tone is kind of ambiguous, but the neck feels really good. But over all since my buddy gave it to me for free I guess I shouldn't bitch.
POSTED: 11/19/2008 - 08:04 am / quote |
Vendim :
The only bad thing .....the only thing I would swap...Only thing I wish it had.....
I guess you wanted to say: There are SOME things...

I've got a Gibson Explorer and it was in a poor condition.... The fretboard wasn't adjustet really good ( but I handed my guiatr the guitar builder and he fixed it), there is a (little)scratch on the headstock and the toggle shwitch doesn't work sometimes... I guess I have to call the guitar-guy again... The guitar was (for a Gibson ONLY) 888 Euro and for that amount of money I expected a better guitar...

POSTED: 11/19/2008 - 10:31 am / quote |
warrenguitar :
Looks like a great guitar, i love the explorer shape! Wat's the difference between normal and jumbo frets?
POSTED: 11/19/2008 - 11:06 am / quote |
Rutherford :
Damn Awsome Guitar

POSTED: 11/19/2008 - 01:39 pm / quote |
nowa90 :
warrenguitar :
Looks like a great guitar, i love the explorer shape! Wat's the difference between normal and jumbo frets?
the size

POSTED: 11/19/2008 - 03:23 pm / quote |
leony03 :
nowa90 wrote:

warrenguitar :
Looks like a great guitar, i love the explorer shape! Wat's the difference between normal and jumbo frets?
the size


haha. Jumbo frets are a cheaper way of producing what is known as a “scalloped” fretboard. The idea behind this is to make it so that your fingers don’t have to actually press all the way down onto the neck of the guitar, thus allowing you to have a lighter (and therefore (supposedly) faster) touch. What some guitarists would do is to have the fret board slightly dug out (scalloped) between the frets. Putting slightly higher (or “jumbo”) frets is a lot cheaper than having a scalloped fretboard.

copied and pasted off a website

POSTED: 11/19/2008 - 06:11 pm / quote |
sandman-105 :
i've been thinking of getting this or the Epi goth for a Brootle Explorer build but since they are the same ecpt the cosmetics i think i will get the goth and save like $100
thanks for the review

POSTED: 11/19/2008 - 06:37 pm / quote |
David_Bowie=GOD :
sandman-105 wrote:

i've been thinking of getting this or the Epi goth for a Brootle Explorer build but since they are the same ecpt the cosmetics i think i will get the goth and save like $100
thanks for the review


korina is a better sounding wood

POSTED: 11/19/2008 - 09:04 pm / quote |
Bbauer :
ive learned to hate epiphone, ive relized that epiphone to gibson sucks compared to ltd to esp, ltd's are built with more quality and precesion the epis ever will be
POSTED: 11/19/2008 - 09:19 pm / quote |
thegrungyhippie :
Bbauer wrote:

ive learned to hate epiphone, ive relized that epiphone to gibson sucks compared to ltd to esp, ltd's are built with more quality and precesion the epis ever will be


XD

POSTED: 11/19/2008 - 09:29 pm / quote |
Instant Mash :
Bbauer wrote:

ive learned to hate epiphone, ive relized that epiphone to gibson sucks compared to ltd to esp, ltd's are built with more quality and precesion the epis ever will be


Could that be because Epiphones aren't built specifically for your style of music, which I'm gonna assume is metal?

POSTED: 11/20/2008 - 12:48 am / quote |
Joseph Castro :
Bbauer wrote:

ive learned to hate epiphone, ive relized that epiphone to gibson sucks compared to ltd to esp, ltd's are built with more quality and precesion the epis ever will be


i hate esp's. the fret bars are too high for me

POSTED: 12/01/2008 - 02:25 am / quote |
Edby :
hmm am looking for a crisp clean tone and i can either get this or a jackson JS30KE Kelly. The kellys got really good reviews but im afraid the kelly might go out of fashion whereas this is a timeless classic design!
Help
Help?

POSTED: 12/20/2008 - 06:44 pm / quote |
fretman5000 :
Joseph Castro wrote:

Bbauer wrote:

ive learned to hate epiphone, ive relized that epiphone to gibson sucks compared to ltd to esp, ltd's are built with more quality and precesion the epis ever will be

i hate esp's. the fret bars are too high for me


i hate esps 2. they are very poor quality that ive played and are overpriced 4 what they r.

POSTED: 12/29/2008 - 01:56 pm / quote |
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