Triple-crown of Korina Limiteds

[Going Modal]

For what it's worth, at this very moment the following 3 guitars are all available (from different buyers) on the ol' 'Verb:
• KL-33
• KL-1812
• KL-380

Granted, at least a couple of them are grossly overpriced; but how cool would that be to have the entire series?

 

[Em7]

There is another Korina guitar that was also a limited production model; namely, the Mira Korina. My Mira Korina is the only PRS guitar that I have kept for more than a decade. If you find one on the used market, slap a pair of 57/08s in it and enjoy (IMHO, Mira pickups are too bright for a Mira Korina). I ordered the pearl pickguard and truss rod cover when PRS was still making the white Mira with gold hardware.

Here is an old photo of my 2009 core Mira Korina:

 

[Going Modal]

slap a pair of 57/08s in it and enjoy

Truer words have never been spoken (for almost any PRS).

 

[]-[@n$0Ma☩!©]

I'm confused. Are we just talking about KL's, piling-on with limited guitars made of Korina, or both?

I vote both.

 

[sergiodeblanc]

how cool would that be to have the entire series?

It’d be sad for the other two, since the KL33 is all that would get played.

 

[]-[@n$0Ma☩!©]

It’d be sad for the other two, since the KL33 is all that would get played.

Put down the taco and pile-on with a photo already.

 

[sergiodeblanc]

Put down the taco and pile-on with a photo already.

https://imgur.com/UcUBYcR

 

[watelessness]

interesting. i actually prefer the mira pickups in my mira-rina

 

[aphantomvaper]

Those are some sweet Guitars, especially those Miras! Keep schooling me, I'm learning

 

[Going Modal]

Are we just talking about KL's, piling-on with limited guitars made of Korina, or both?

Pile-on's allowed... nay, encouraged!

 

[Davey]

How about a KL-33 that underwent a flying change during its build by Paul and factory built with a set of early unetched 57/08's instead of miras.

 

[sergiodeblanc]

How about a KL-33 that underwent a flying change during its build by Paul and factory built with early unetched 57/08's instead of miras.

There’s not a better guitar on the forum.

 

[Em7]

interesting. i actually prefer the mira pickups in my mira-rina

You must like very bright, stiff pickups. What I love about the 57/08s is that they are asymmetrically wound like the original PAFs. The originals were asymmetrically wound due to the limitations in winding technology in the fifties. Not having perfectly or near perfectly wound coils causes an imbalance in the humbucking circuit, which, in turn, allows the pickups to retain some of the fidelity and bounce of a single coil at the expensive of low-level hum. I cannot stand modern humbucking pickups in the bass (neck) position. The feel is just too strident and the notes are just too clickity, clunky when played clean. The distorted sound is okay, but the clean sound is no, just no unless the tone control is rolled off significantly. A lot of guitarists swap a humbucker-sized P-90 for a neck humbucker for this very reason.