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Share Your Explorers

bursty

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Dec 25, 2012
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I discovered a hand made Korina Explorer that was available and purchased it.
Neck is claimed to be 25mm/1 inch thickness at fret 1.
Should be here in a few days.

EX body frt.jpg

gotta love that looooooong neck tenon
EX tenon.jpg

The builder had a 1 piece board of white Limba (Korina), strangely cut it into two pieces, and joined it at the opposite edges of the board to assemble the body of the Explorer. Wish they would have just used the 1 piece board as it was but I will take it like it is as there isn't a choice.
Explorer Limba 1 pc.jpg
 
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Phil 52

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The builder had a 1 piece board of white Limba (Korina), strangely cut it into two pieces, and joined it at the opposite edges of the board to assemble the body of the Explorer. Wish they would have just used the 1 piece board as it was but I will take it like it is as there isn't a choice.
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Of what I once read or heard somewhere it was said that a glued 2 piece body
is more stable than a 1 piece body.
I'm NO expert so I don't have a clue if this is right.
 

Joe Desperado

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That board was not wide enough for a one piece. See how the picture shows the halves interlocked? The grain pattern shows that half was from one edge and half from the other edge. When two piece body, I prefer the center seam was from the same edge. Helps match the grain, but requires a longer board. One piece body needs 18” wide minimum. 16” wide requires the cut he made and matches the pic.

Beautiful guitar btw!!!
 
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