Korina wood

[dewayne]

if i came across a good deal via internet on a gibson explorer (not korina) what kind of tone would it have compared to my epi explorer that is korina wood if they had same pickups,  strings,  yadda,  yadda? 

[ezbass]

Pretty much the same IMO.

[Dad3353]

I'm not an exponent of the 'tonewood' school of thought. I'm rather 'tone is in the fingers'; two different players will sound different, even given the same guitar to play. If we eliminate the extremes (papier-maché, solid lead...), the stuff they're made of has very little influence on the 'tone'. Still less influence once any kind of disto pedal is involved. Still, some folk enjoy cork-sniffing or developing bat-like hearing rather than playing whatever they have on hand. It's good for commerce, so it's not all bad. 

[Diary Of An Axeman]

Since I do many genres of Rock ; Classic Rock, NWOBM/ 80 Metal, Blues, Thrash, Neo Classical Metal and Instrumental Music.

I notice the more distortion used the more the individuality of tonewood and pickups vanish. But when the guitar is ran clean you can hear the tonewood and pickup nuances.