Korina Junior Score

Awesome Jaye! I am trying to talk myself out of one. /emoticons/default_rolleyes.gif

There is one at the local GC that I have gone back and played three times. It is a 97 model, with a second serial number, I am assuming from a limited run that year. It's tagged at $2199, which is too rich for my blood. You're right, these things just tear it up. They look simple but holy crap! Enjoy it!

In the mean time, I will keep trying to convince myself I don't need one. /emoticons/default_laugh.png

 
There was a limited run of five sets (a single and a two pickup model) in brace cases, each set numbered-the first set being displayed at NAMM in 1999. They got the first two "wrong" and used the stop/tuna. I think that the 3, 4 and 5 sets were wrap tails like the newer ones. The new ones are "NAMM limited edition single pickup reissues" in the jargon of other guitar makers...

 
I think the new ones were a custom order item first before they debuted at the NAMM show. Custom order ones came with the keystone shaller tuning machines ala a Korina Vector. The catalog version has the regular shaller tuning machines.

Mine is one of the few that has a one piece body and the only one to have an extra long pickguard.

 
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Great score, Jaye!

Those sound like great guitars. The perfect kind of guitar to keep you honest...just PLAY.

I'll bet it sounds best when loud. One of my favorite tones was a P-90 Special into a McIntyre modded Bassman (think early Marshall...) into a 4x12 w/ Vintage 30s. Once you hit 8 on the volume, I understood the Malcolm Young groove thing better than ever.

Again, conratulations!

Best Wishes

 
sweet deal. and stoopid light! 1 piece? Seem's like more 1 piece Korina Juniors are popping up. 1piece or not it's still killer!

 
Sweet guitar Jaye. I've been tempted many times by one, but never have had a chance to really crank one up. Given our past, I know how on-the-mark your tone reports are.

BTW, how is the Reinhardt? I as tempted last summer to get one for the lower wattage thing. DABECKs amps are killers, but sound best cranked.

Oh, and give me a call if you join a metal band and need to sell your Junior! LOL

 
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