Vintage Cort Bass? Know Anything About Them?

I don't have any experience with the J version, but the P basses are excellent! The necks on them are fantastic. If the J's are anything like the P's, you got a good bass.

 

I would guess that the bass is a emid-80's instrument. It has the same tuners that my '86 slammer bass had.

Cort's never seem to fetch much when being sold, but I find them to be great players and modding platforms. I own 4 Cort instruments right now.

 

They are good $200 to $250 instruments

 

"Cort" = Cor-Tec, based in Incheon, South Korea. Since Samick got out of Korean production, Cor-Tek makes ~95% of Korean export guitars and basses, irrespective of notional "brand."

They also produce instruments in Indonesia.

As far as I know, none of their stuff has ever been produced in Japan. If anyone has hard information to the contrary, please share it.

Realistically? $100-$175, and it wouldn't be a quick sell.

Still trying to wrap my head around the concept of this being a "vintage" instrument.

 

This is not the same bass but very close. Also a Cortez. I picked it up from another TB member last week. Other than the headstock shape and your's saying Cort the style is very similar. Mine is probably early to mid 70's. Is the truss rod cover metal or plastic on the white one?

 

The serial numbers and make locations were put on stickers on the back of the headstock. My serial is WO201085. I assume the 85 at the end gives you the year. The location sticker is completely worn except the letter R lol. Hope this helps a little.

 

That's a very misleading article. And for the record, I don't believe this Cort bass has anything to do with "Cortez" instruments.

 

Why do you think the article is misleading?
There is not much info available on Cortez but most of what I have read says Cortez became Cort.

 

Hello? It's a loose copy of the Fender Precision logo from the early '70s.

 

As previously stated, Cort is a Korean company, Cor-Tec. Cortez was a distributor. Cort may have made some instruments for Cortez, I don't know. But your bass was almost undoubtedly made in Korea. Now that is not bad. Some Korean instruments, particularly from the late 80's were well made.

 

It's supposed to be a blatant copy of the Fender logo. That was the idea. The whole bass is a Fender copy and they wanted the logo to look Fender-ish as well. Why do you think Fender finally started suing all those Japanese copy makers? They were getting very close to making it look like a real Fender from a distance. Tokai was probably the worst offender. I had a Tokai strat copy and they used the same font as Fender and the T in Tokai looked almost like the Fender F.

 

Couldn't it possibly just be one of the P's necks on a different body?