Korina Wood

The tone is very similar to Mahogany with added mids.

Korina wood. This is a fairly lightweight light-colored wood from West Africa with excellent tonal qualities. White Limba is your typical nice clean wood associated with a few groovy modernistic designs from the late 50s. It grows up to 60 m tall with a domed or flat crown and a trunk typically clear of branches for much of its height buttressed at the base.

It grows up to 60 m tall with a domed or flat crown and a trunk typically clear of branches for much of its height buttressed at the base. Heartwood is a light yellowish to golden brown sometimes with grey to nearly black streaks and veins. Terminalia superba the superb terminalia limba or afara UK korina US frake Africa African limba wood ofram Ghana is a large tree in the family Combretaceae native to tropical western Africa.

11m Followers 128 Following 139k Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Korina Sanchez-Roxas korina. With a Vintage Tint Gloss on it it resembles the famous Korina Flying Vs of the late 50s. Jimmy Wallaces early 1980 Les Paul 59 reissues have Korina Wood backs.

White Korina is a medium to heavy weight wood Korina has a naturally waxy feel to it. Korina is imported from Africa and is not nearly as endangered as its mahogany cousin. Korina for that matter is the light kind.

An excellent tonal choice for hollow chambered bodies. These were the original Flying V The Moderne The Futura and the original Explorer. Wood with such darker figuring is referred to as Black Limba while plain unfigured wood is called White Limba.

Weve virtually grown clones of the lightest Limba tree saplings weve got our hands on. Only 98 Flying Vs were produced from 58-59 along with less than 50 Explorers making them two of the rarest production-model guitars ever. Korina 2 piece Soid Body Guitar Blank - paint grade Terminalia superba Also known in the guitar trade as Korina.