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Cort Factory Controversy.

#21
perogato02 said:
That is globalisation for you :D
But then again:
if it is a good quality bass guitar, I don't mind where it is been made.
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I do get annoyed if it's deceptively labeled...

In UK, there's annoyance that English beef cattle can be trucked up to the lowlands of Scotland, kept grazing there for 30 days and then can be slaughtered and sold as Scottish beef (with a massive premium on the price)

There's a deceptive little number going on in my county right now:

Some pork sausages are being sold with an image of a Gloucestershire Old Spot pig on the package and on the back of the package, it has the following:

"Our free-range Gloucestershire Old Spot sired pigs"

it's not actually Gloucestershire Old Spot pigs they're made from, but "mongrel meat" as the papers are putting it...

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#27
ClassicJazz said:
The country of origin labeling is based on the percentage of labor done to a particular item in a location. I forget the actual numbers, but you can have something fabricated in China, then sent to the USA for finishing. If the work that is done in the US is more then in China, they can put made in the US on it.
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Is this how Highway One Fenders are made, but with Mexico?
 
#33
I suppose the only really controversial aspect of this is the labelling, coz Cort does usually produce very high quality gear.

But if your Fender Jazz has Made in U.S.A. stamped on it, then it is reasonable to expect that up to 75% of the manufacturing wasn't done overseas, thus robbing (much higher paid) U.S. luthiers of jobs.
 
#34
CrashClint said:
You have to wonder about rumors, I heard that the Sadowsky NYC body and neck is built overseas and finished in the US and they are basically just a warehouse. Is there any truth to that at all?
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The Sadowky NYC basses are all USA made, but he doesn't make the bodies. Sadowky's are what they are, really nice kit basses that get the job done. He's more of an assembler than a luthier, a great one at that!
 
#38
MyUsernameHere said:
The only rumor like this that I have heard is that the Cort factory is building robot replacements for all the C.E.O.s of the big US companies, replacing them in their sleep and threatening to harm their family pets in order to keep the families quiet. Supposedly, Cort is doing this in order to facilitate a diabolical plan for a one world government, headed by Cort, in which the manufacture of bass parts is just the first step toward the enslavement of all mankind.
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Sounds about right to me. SHHH they are watching us!!!
 
#39
The very first bass that I ever bought was a used Cort bass. I think I paid $80.00 for it? I believe a member of TB said the model was simply called the X bass but another person overseas was selling one that was my basses twin and said the model was called a Cort LP DP Bass. Here is a pic of the one that was being sold overseas, I think in the UK but looked identical to mine. This bass sold long ago but had I known about it, I may have made an offer on it just to get the identical bass of my very first one again. A while back, someone on here made a thread about if people still owned their first bass. It got me reminiscing and ever since then, I have been trying to reacquire identical basses to all of my previous ones that I used to own.

Here was what my old Cort LP DP looked like.

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