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The CORT Club!!!

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I picked up a Cort Curbow off of eBay about 5 years ago for my son for about $200.00 - mint condition. It's got an "ebanol" fretboard ... kind of feels like it's been sanded and polyurethaned and sanded again, but with frets. Not bad. Good for popping and slapping. It's got an EQ switch that's really cool. Good value for the dough. I wouldn't use it as a gigging bass necessarilly, but a great practice bass.
 
#44
I know it isn't a bass, but my "go-to" guitar is a Cort M700. I traded a Les Paul knockoff for it, and this thing rocks. Solid mahogany body, mahogany neck with rosewood board, set neck, sperzel locking tuners, wilkinson bridge, twin humbuckers with coil tap, abalone dot inlays, and fully bound neck and body. I love this thing, but I am yet to see another one in real life.

Simon
 
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Muusers said:
I hear a lot of people saying that Cort isnt an appreciated brand or something like that, but then why isnt Cort celebrated?

BTW, almost owner of an Artisan A5
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Cort already takes most of their time to make Korean Fenders, Ibanez, etc., and have no time to really get a kickstart on their own brand. Not to mention their making a load of money off Fender and Ibanez anyway.
 
#47
Here's my Fretless Cort Curbow. Don't comment on picture quality, for some reason my camera can't take good pictures indoors so I had to change the settings and this is how it came out.
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#48
I sort of have a Cort. I have a Tanglewood Curbow, which I'm told is the same company just different continents!

It was a silver fretted, but I decided I didn't like the Ebanol, so I've just pulled the fretboard off, and am about to send it off to have an Ebony fretless fretboard fitted.

Hopefully it will make it an awesome bass!
 
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Muusers said:
I hear a lot of people saying that Cort isnt an appreciated brand or something like that, but then why isnt Cort celebrated?

BTW, almost owner of an Artisan A5
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Cort flies under the radar pretty well. There's no major endorsees and they aren't sold many places. I have an A5, and i highly reccomend you get a tube preamp or modelling pedal for it. Running it solid state will sound just awful.

BTW, Cort makes all the G&L Tribute guitars and basses. You might have one and not even know it. :)
 
#51
Greetings from the other side!
This is my first post on the electric side of the fence, have been on the D/Bass side for the past 5+ years however, only just 4 weeks back, I picked up a CORT A6 to go along side my D/Bass Jazz Gigs that require an electric set towards the end of the night! I got a call from a music shop here in Brisbane that knew I had an interest in a possible 6 string and although I had the option of a NEW Tobias 6 except.... that the price tag ran $5999.00 Aussie. I could NOT justify the purchase. The shop called to tell me that a guy who had bought the A6 only a few months back could not get his hand around the bass and decided to trade-back to a guitar.... I checked it out the next day and just LOVED every feature on this bass. Sound/ Neck/ Weight and all in MINT condition... got a good hard case and a set of Thomastik-Infeld flats thrown in for a Grand! I'm a Happy Chappie! And further more, I went back yesterday to buy a new strap and Locks for the A6 and found that the same guy had infact bought 2 basses at the time... the A6 and a B4FL. and he'd brought the Four Fretless back two days ago and traded that one.... I played this mother and fell in love with it also.... Got this one with a hard case and a set of 4/ Infeld Flats for $700.00 Aussie... LOVE both of them! I was first concerned when I heard about Cort / Korean etc.... thinking that they could be a junky type product however, having played the units and checked out the quality parts used in construction, and the general overall sound. I think as most of the comments on this thread have said....they are a GREAT AXE!:hyper:
 
#54
Here's a picture of my GB94, i got it about 2 months ago and every day since it has just amazed me, the comfort, the tone, the look. I tried out several basses (some twice the price of the GB94) before deciding buying this bass and I really really don't regret my decission. I love this bass.
 

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perogato02 said:
All right, big up for this thread: >I can join your club since I am the very proud owner of a Cort Artisan A4 :hyper:
But could somebody give me some info about my bass (time of production) since I don't have the switch between my eq-knobs :hmm:
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need those pics to get into the club!!

I've heard real good things about the gb, hope to get one soon to see for myself! I can get em at cost...
 
#58
Heck yeah. Apparently Rob Elrick wasn't impressed with the marketing (or lack there of) of these basses, but it sure plays & looks like a much more expensive bass. The bass has been upfitted with an Audere pre and some Sadowsky-style knobs since I took these:

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