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  Epiphone 1958 Korina Flying V

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• hemsley 28th Dec 2007

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  Good Points: the shape and styling of the guitar are quite nice. Thats about it.

  
  

  Bad Points: the gold plating wears off within months. The tuners, despite being branded grover (i highly doubt they are actual grovers) never stay in tune. The pickups sound dull and dreary, with little tone and even less on the higher notes. the pickup selector makes a huge buzz when you switch it while plugged in. the build quality is awful, made in korea.

  
  

  General comments: I use this mainly through a wem clubman- a great little amp. It was so awful that i completely re fitted it with everything new. I replaced the out of place v plate with a bigsby trem, and fitted a roller bridge. The pickups were changed with a tony iommi gibson custom wound in the neck and a seymour duncan zebra coil 58 in the bridge. I also fitted locking groer tuners. All of the poorly gold plated features were replaced with chrome, and i put in an actual gibson pickup selector. Now the guitar sounds and looks fantastic. Its one of my favourite guitars. But if you're not looking to spend '£250 refitting this guitar, i would suggest you look elsewhere. The rule of bad build quality generally goes for all epiphones of this price range. Look at Samick Gregg Bennett guitars. They are the same price, have pickups designed by seymour duncan, real grover tuners and are built really nice, generally are real quality guitars.
  

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• jedders 5th Sep 2006

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  The Epiphone 1958 Korina Flying V electric guitar has a brilliant sound when using both pickups, and it has a lot of sustain too, which is really useful, as I play lead guitar in a band.
  
  The shape is quite awkward to play sitting down, but this is by far my favourite guitar, and I also have a Fender Telecaster and Samick Les Paul with Seymour Duncan pickups. The Flying V was made in the same factory!
  
  You just can't get a cooler guitar than this!

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• thinmetalhendrix 24th Jan 2005

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  Epiphone 1958 Korina Flying V - This is the best guitar I've played. My mate has a Fender Strat and this is much better. It has a nice sound clean or with gain. I play out of a Mairshall MG15dfx and it sounds sweet. It looks great and when you first put it over shoulder and hit that first note you can't help standing in front of the mirror and doing a pose. Its retro style might not be for everyone, but I love it. The damn thing won't stay in tune but you won't mind tunning it up more ofte ...

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