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    McCarty Korina vs Mahogany/Maple

    I think most don't really care but simply have their own personal preferences. I have blue eyes so blue is a go for me, but most any other nontraditional color wouldn't do for me the same way blue might not cut it for others. No worries: more blue for me, more other stuff for them. (He says as...
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    McCarty Korina vs Mahogany/Maple

    Here it is. Just arrived today At 7.8 lbs it's just a touch lighter than my recent nothing-special AmStd HSS strat. Plays like a breeze. Haven't restrung it yet... intonation is perfect, can play half open chords anywhere. Haven't cranked it yet, looking forward to that...
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    McCarty Korina vs Mahogany/Maple

    I live a bit out in the sticks, but recognize that's still a poor excuse for not spending a weekend in my old college town of La Crosse WI, which remains less than 4 hours away and is home to that heaven known as Dave's Guitar Shop. But anyway - I've completed my waffle and just made an offer...
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    McCarty Korina vs Mahogany/Maple

    I still haven't pulled the trigger yet... the mahogany/maple tone set, by the book, seems to match up with some of my likes (e.g. Dream mentioned in first post)... and sure, the amp and an EQ pedal can probably dial in whatever I need, but I don't want to fight the guitar's natural tendencies...
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    McCarty Korina vs Mahogany/Maple

    Thanks for the responses. I'm going to wing it with korina. I've been cruising youtube and something about how articulate it is, even in a video with some novice (not unlike myself in far too many regards) pushing it through some crushing deep, heavy solid state distortion, it was still...
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    McCarty Korina vs Mahogany/Maple

    I'm curious about specific tonal comparisons between the mahogany/maple vs. korina McCarty... I'm in the market for juat one new guitar, used around $1500 give or take. Way back when I owned a McInturff Taurus Sportster, which was a chambered mahogany beast with a nice coil split: I would play a...
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