I've played the Epiphone 58 Korina. It is a nice guitar to play (though I am sure that it had a maple neck not mahogany!). This is the one with the strings through the body and controls all in line. I got it for my Godson for his 16th birthday, and he has been using it all the time since (though he has now got his dad's 63 SG with BK's so it might start to gather dust!). Last year he put a Black Dog bridge and a gibson 57 neck in it. Either a Stormy Monday or Mule neck is next, though since he picked out the pickups for his Dad's SG (Mule bridge and VHII neck - that's what he liked at Music Live), perhaps he'll pick a different neck pickup.