NeoConMan Posted June 20, 2010 Share Posted June 20, 2010 http://forums.gibson.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=34963 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted June 20, 2010 Share Posted June 20, 2010 Welcome home - although... dumping the Starfire should be worth a week's ban. <chortle> m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corrosion of conformity Posted June 20, 2010 Share Posted June 20, 2010 Welcome back Neo!!! Sounds like a neat guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shnate McDuanus Posted June 20, 2010 Share Posted June 20, 2010 A '76 Explorer is sweet! But you let go of the Guild? For shame, man! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dub-T-123 Posted June 20, 2010 Share Posted June 20, 2010 Sounds like a cool trade. What finish is the Explorer and what pickups are in it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketman Posted June 21, 2010 Share Posted June 21, 2010 Congrats! I can imagine that giving up the Guild was not easy but I think you did great! You know what we want so get them up soon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibson4life Posted June 21, 2010 Share Posted June 21, 2010 Cool! GET PICS:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoConMan Posted June 21, 2010 Author Share Posted June 21, 2010 Camera is on the fritz - battery compartment door refuses to stay latched due to age and mistreatment. It's yer basic Korina with a white guard. Tuners were swapped in the previous millenia, and the paint has been touched up. It has a DiMarzios, a Super Distortion with a coil tap in the bridge. It's definitely a metal guitar (not really my thing) but it's pretty versatile. Not original, and not perfect, but I got into it for free by moving some other gear - a first for me. It's a collector thing as much as anything - same as the 1976 Fender Quad Reverb I got in the deal. Yeah, the SF III was super nice but I rarely played it. Plenty of them out there on Ebay for a grand, I can always get another one at some point. I tried to trade the SF III to a guy for an equally nice Guild X-180 and $300 - his idea but he changed his mind. So I traded it to Mike Patruno for the Explorer and the guy comes back in and trades in his 180 anyway! (WTF?) Anyhow, the 180 still hanging there in Mike's shop but I doubt I'll spend the cash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted June 21, 2010 Share Posted June 21, 2010 Many congrats on the deal, Neo. I've loved the '76 since I first saw one in an ad. in '77! A couple of things intrigued me; ...It's yer basic Korina with a white guard... A '76 in Korina is actually quite a rare beast. After Gibson QC inspected the supply of Korina they had bought for the re-issues the vast majority was deemed too poor quality to use and reputedly fewer than 100 instruments were able to be made with it. The rest of the series was constructed using Mahogany. Much of the latter were painted whereas the Korina ones were left Natural finish. ...It has a DiMarzios' date=' a Super Distortion with a coil tap in the bridge...[/quote'] The bridge unit is very possibly a 'Dual-Sound' which was basically an S-D with additional coil-tap wiring - and the necessary wiring-diagram! - Otherwise they were identical to the S-D. Looking forward to the pics, of course! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShredAstaire Posted June 21, 2010 Share Posted June 21, 2010 Hi Neo, welcome back!! I like Explorer's...that will probably be my next guitar....I should own one now but I bought a Tele instead pretty recently...back to the drawing board!! On another note, did you get it at Guitar Center? hehehehe JUST KIDDING!!!!!!!!!! :- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyK Posted June 22, 2010 Share Posted June 22, 2010 Couldn't care less about the Explorer. I'm just glad you're back, Neo. So, how long you gotta report to the parole officer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoConMan Posted June 29, 2010 Author Share Posted June 29, 2010 Parole officer? Heard nothing yet.... Anyhows, here's the Explorer. I'll have more pics when I get a camera going again. Pippy, I don't KNOW that it's Korina for sure. Just using a generality in description, since that's the look. Could be plain ol' Mahogany for all I know - the woods are very similar. I'm likin' the sound of the one-of-a-hundred thing though.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluemoon Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 That's pretty cool looking. Nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketman Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 Oh that is sweet! The gold hardware looks nice on it. Congrats... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shnate McDuanus Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 Whoa! Purdy. Nice score. ;) Even if it meant letting go of a Guild. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dub-T-123 Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 You can tell your friends you got it Murphy aged. lol just kidding! That looks sweet. I'm normally not really an Explorer or V guy but there are exceptions and that is one of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 Oooooohhhh! I do like that a lot! Great score, Neo! ;)[thumbup][thumbup][thumbup] (Nice Snap Too!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Witmer Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 (envy) Congratulations! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badbluesplayer Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 Very Nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riffster Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 Wow that guitar has darkened in a very cool way. It is mahogany by the way, not korina on the '76 models. The first korina reissue was in 1980 as part of the historic series and there were only 100 made. Korina is noticeably lighter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyK Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 ... .. That shape makes me want to sing: "Eep' date=' Opp, Ork Ah, Ah" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundergod Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 Good to see you around Neo. Nice guitar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoConMan Posted June 30, 2010 Author Share Posted June 30, 2010 Thank ya TG! On another note' date=' did you get it at Guitar Center? hehehehe JUST KIDDING!!!!!!!!!! :) [/quote'] You can tell your friends you got it Murphy aged. Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!! - Not. Yeah' date=' it has some honest wear and tear on it - by far the roughest guitar I've ever owned. Even worse than some of the new guitars at Guitar Center!!! Already had some finish work done on it, so I may touch up the hanger rash at the headstock. Ten feet away, it looks pretty damned good. Gotta pick it up to see the warts and scars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dub-T-123 Posted June 30, 2010 Share Posted June 30, 2010 Lol I know how you feel about artificially "reliced" guitars. It doesn't look reliced. It looks like it has been around since '76. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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