Canora 1959 Flying V Replica

Beautiful finish. Three controls, three-way pick-up selector. Pickups sound great. Great Japanese build quality.

Played through a Fender Blues Junior. Sounds fantastic. Can get some great dirty and clean sounds. Rich, full and bright tone. People love this guitar.

Using 11s for strings (generally thicker strings = better tone IMO).

Beautifully made. Action is low and smooth. Easy to adjust action and intonation. Nice rosewood fretboard.

It's been around since the 70s-80s and still looks and sounds great.

Never needed.

Been playing 15 years. Other guitar is a USA Telecaster. If you find one of these grab it and hold onto it.

blood/cherry red with white pickgaurd and black tone and vol knobs. nice bridge replica of the original Gibson Flying Vee, though this one is not a string thru. plywood body, but beauty pickups , even though most likely japs. rosewood fretboard almost looks exotic but just hasnt been laquered feels beautiful. not fret wear. tuners were crappy so replaced them, came with gigbnag though not original looked like someone had used a car seat cover!

sounds great for a MIJ of that 70/80s era.

nice set up dec ent pots, etc

would withstand live playing if not doing any who numbers, townshend would ruin this guitar in an instant!

forget it

A Canora brand guitar, though i've not heard of them being worldwide and have only seen them in Australia. Either way, most likely a jap-made era guitar - the good era - i've played the shit and the good and this guitar lies more near the good end of the jap work...

butterscotch finish, see thru transperancey, has a nice grain though body is plywood... still sounds good for its age of probably late 70's?? no serials so undatable...

faithful to the fyling V style of 1958 or 1959, not string thru but. nice neck profile, tuners crappy, easy and cheap to replace...

somone had replaced the veneer on this one to "gibson", did actually look like a gibson which drew my attention, but soon found out that the veneer peeled off to reveal Canora...

pickups are small humbuckrs almost P-90 like in tone. 3 controls, tone and volume, neck is rosweood and iof a really ncie grain too.

suits my style of playing, hendrix, blues, rock, zeppelin, rhandy roads, sabbath, stones etc. you get the idea. used with a fender twin and marshall JCM... vox tone bender and wah V847. sounds great overdriven not muddy at all and clean and bell-like thru the twin...

action was well done, pickups and all good, other than the tuners., cleaned up the crappy veneer job and thats about it!

No Canora company or support that I could find???

The finish on this axe is awesome. Someone did a good job! Flat olympic white-ish that's aged a bit. I'm thinking 70's/80's stuff?? Or of that era anyway to have this aged look. Lack of serial numbers didn't help. I opened her up to try and date the pots and saw her original colour, flat white! Gibson 1959 or 1958 Flying V body style, true replica as I've seen the real deal down at the guitar store... String thru body sort of, it hooks on through the surface not acutally thru the body - hard to explain. tuners were crappy plastic and so replaced them. neck straight as an arrow, scale is Gibbo. no accesories, bought second hand, probly 3rd hand or fifth! 22 frets, vol and two tones two smallish humbuckes and 500K tone pots, sleek sound! not muddy at all thru a fender twin anyway. neck looks like mahognay with rosewood fretboard, i think body is alder or basswood...

great style for rock or blues, fender twin with vox wah and other assorted thins, echoplex EP-3, flanger etc, digitech shit. pots awesome, not noisey at all, full sound a bit bright though.

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tuners were fucked.

who is canora anyhow?

9 years been playing