Feline V80 - KORINA 2 X P90

This is a fun project.
We decided to make a Korina bodied V80 but load it with a pair of classic sounding P90 pickups. The look of the guitar with the crown inlays in a bound neck and a pair of cream soapbar P90s being so familiar in 1950s goldtop Les Paul Guitars

So we used the V80 format - our take on the 1980s variant of the flying V without scratch plates. However we used Korina style wood known as Idigbo.
Idigbo: latin name Terminalia Ivorensis, which along with Limba (Terminalia superba) are the two very similar timber variants that get labelled as Korina.
Korina was a name made up by Gibson in the 1950s to make the timber sound unique and exotic
Weight is very light, clocking in under 7lbs.

The neck is medium full  not unlike a 1959 era guitar snd suits the guitar better than a whip thin neck profile
We used the Earvana nut that we favour so much that brings the tuning accuracy up somewhat

We used Dunlop 6000 frets which has enough height and mass to work wonders for all kinds of rock or blues playing

Features

Body

• Korina - jointed with chevrons on centreline
• Weight – 6lb 9oz

Neck

• 3 Piece quarter-sawn Korina neck
• Rosewood fingerboard – 24.75” scale length
• Neck Width – 43mm at nut / 57mm at last fret
• Neck Depth –22mm at 1st fret / 24mm at 12th fret
• Neck Profile – Full C shape (like a '58 or early '59 Les Paul)
• Real Mother of Pearl crown inlays
• Ebony headstock fascia
• Earvana nut
• Guitar is more in-tune with itself
• Jim Dunlop 6000 gauge frets

Hardware

• Schaller Kluson style tuners
• TonePros bridge and locking tailpiece studs
• Lightweight aluminium tailpiece
• Recessed jack socket in upper fin (so no tripping over your lead)
• Dunlop straplock buttons (recessed on rear for closer strap fitting), and supplied with the fittings for your strap

Pickups

• Bare Knuckle Nantucket and Blue Note P90s
  
• two volumes and master tone 
  Bare Knuckle/CTS 550k pots 
• Switchcraft switch and jack
• graphite screened cavities and carbon fibre backplate

Case

• SKB flying V case
  (a few minor scuffs on case as has been stored in rack in workshop and a couple of discoloured marks where a tape label had been)