Talk:Gibson Futura

The article is wrong in several places. The one from the trade show is Korina. I can account for two mahogany models.

This model wasn't a precurser to the Explorer, but a scraped third design.

Rick Derringer had two copies made (not dimensionally correct) and played them in the early 1970's.

They are just full of little construction surprises. Very odd routing scheme. I have never seen the Korina one in person, but I have had the others in my hands. The last I knew, the first proto was living in the Orlando area among ancient Persian rugs.

Korina guitar had a logo, and white plastic. The mahogany guitars never had logos, or numbers, and they have very ratty single-ply black plastic, with the pickguards showing what appears to be saw chatter across the width at an angle.

These guitars are thicker than the other Modernistic guitars, but are still super lightweight, especially considering the overall size.


 * Can you source any of this? Have you seen the trade-show guitar?  And on what basis do you assert that this was a "third model" and distinct from the Explorer?  And on what basis do you say the NAMM guitar had a white p/g, since in the only known photo it didn't have one?


 * I'm not being as challenging as my tone looks. I'm genuinely curious, since so little firsthand info is out there Solicitr (talk) 12:33, 18 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Update: The korina trade show guitar presently has a white pickguard but it was added by owner Kurt Linhof; the original p/g was long gone when he found it. The wiring channel on that one was routed freehand. The mahogany example now in the Chinery collection had its wiring route indexed off the side of the body with an edge guide; neither conforms to the layout used on production Explorers.--Solicitr (talk) 13:44, 2 August 2015 (UTC)