This Guitar is SHOCKINGLY Good...and It's a CORT?? 

Amazing review as usual! i always enjoy the demo and in depth look you give to guitars. another Guitar that i feel may fly under the radar is the Swope Geronimo. id suggest checking it out if you want!

cort makes prs se guitars and a lot of guitars from ibanez to fender they are actually the largest guitar manufacturer i've been using cort guitar since 2013

I wasn't expecting veneer at that price point anyway. A thick cap would have been too much to ask for. Still gorgeous though!

Thanks finally you tested a cort guitar. But some people may not have fantastic day or a great day. Except for that you present your video well.

Have you ever reviewed Wolfgang evh guitars?

Congratulations!!

Good work!

That is awesome!

Grande tío guitar!

Aguante Tío Guitar!!!

I suspect Cort made the korean Hamer guitars too.... i could be wrong on that though.

Exact.

@@nathang1184 theres a McKnight video on YT where he explains Brands. There you go

@@nathang1184 You can find information also on brands forum.

totally agree man

well said!

Newer players or hardcore brand fanboys tend to favor famous brands. BUT those who are looking for good specs within a budget would find Cort a real bargain. But it don't hold value well, if you are looking for an upgrade in near future and resell it, it's not a good choice. Then again, why would someone on a budget would resell it that fast, it will last for a long time for sure if you chose to hold into it.

My friends literally says that cort is not well made and cheap, but they didn't even see the more expensive guitars

I own a cort X1. Its been here for 3 years. Its not much of a guitar, the build is ehh and humbuckers are barely good enough, but their neck, fretboard and machine heads are very solid, i rarely drop in tunings and can hold the tuning for up to a week, and the fretboard doesnt crack despite big humidity changes and are well built. Everything else is okay, its a 150 dollar guitar and for that its a pretty good pick.

@@homemadelemonade976 yeah, those X1, X2, CR100, G100, etc are designed for absolute beginners. But they are priced lower than other beginner LTDs, SGRs and *a few* Ibanez GIOs. As soon as you move up to intermediate level guitars, Ibanez and Cort do the right job. Ibanez starts incorporating IBZs (DiMarzio made) & Quantum pickups in some of their guitars (others have Infinity pickups) and Cort starts EMGs (Retroactives or HZ) in almost all of the guitars, good (great in case of Ibanez) tuning stability, etc. At the same time, you get LTDs and SGRs with stock pickups, 'not too stable' tuning, a pathetic Floyd Rose which is a royal pain in the ass. So Ibanez and Cort are the best bargains, imo. That's where I say, why pay for the brand value.

Oh please. We all know you didn’t actually think you had enough. 😁

Cort really has turned that ugly duckling (from the 90's and 2000's) into a gorgeous swan. Good On Them....it's great for competition...and i would happily own one at that price.

Do not go to their website and download the catalogue. Don't

Same.

You thought it was over... *laughs*

What do you think of the new 2019 g260cs model? I love how it looks, it's fairly cheap, and plays great.

Abu Narine took me a minute to realize my ears weren't playing tricks and he was actually saying Cort. It really is on a whole different level for their house brand.

Cort has had a wicked g series flagship for a while.. there used to be a model with emg sa/sa/89 pickups.. such a smooth player!

last time i saw a Cort guitar was about 30 years ago in a neighborhood music store and they were really just, unplayable junk...3 decades later and i don't recognise them at all, that unit looks and sounds just as good as an Indonesian Ibanez at half the price....amazing and massive congrats to Cort.

Cort takes already existing shapes and gives them their own spin and they do it right. They know how to step things up.

It has been for a while, but people keep on not paying attention. I owned a gb94 like 15 years ago and it was just worthy of a two/three time more money bass

How wide is the neck at the nut. Do you think the same or wider than the "universal" 1.65 in?

sounds like the same i had, probably 1995 roughly. my dad got it used for me one xmas.

Jim And Dee Patton How would you compare the blue burst to the antique burst in appearance? Blue is my preferred colour, but the picks seem pretty lack lustre compared to the antique burst.

James It’s all up to your taste. I had an antique burst and traded it in because I really like blue better, too. And like all guitars that are the same model, some have better tops than others. This is a veneer and so its not going to be “4A”, absolute best possible top. But it is still an amazing value to me.

Garbage there's a blue burst one too and it's even sexier

Every finish is good as long as it’s finished. - my broke self

Beats Gibson Les Pauls easily 😂

@@pranjalsharma3370 t is exactly like that a lot of guitar for the money

Thanks! Love your killer tracks! 👍

This has got to be the ultimate crossover.

Ooo! Nice to meet you here!

Ash lol

I heard it too!

LOL! Dirty mind! ;-)

Swamp ash- nice wood for guitar. Swamp ass- what you get driving in your car with leather seats all day and the a/c is broke.

Shrek's beautiful swamp ass

I was thinking that also at the start of the video. I'm wondering if Cort makes the Sterling line.

Just Someone - that was my first thought!!! Ernie Ball..... WOW!

@@dbmabe - same here!!! First seconds of the video I was going....finish looks like Eddie's (Van Halen) old Ernie Ball single horn E.B. guitar - freaky! 👍

@@spacejaime It looks like its right at about the same price point as most of the Sterlings. On Reverb, they're going new for $599.

I was thinking the same thing!!

Actually, that's PRS SE series. They are made by the same company as Cort.

Cort is the factory where PRS SE editions are made since a PRS SE Santana can be had for $649 pretty easily, and since the SE "Paul's Guitar" is $999 suggested list, your statement is bogus.

@@britishblack PRS SE Santana is made in Surabaya/Indonesia, it was Cort's production facility before PRS take a contract with them.

@@britishblack PRS moved their overseas manufacturing a couple years ago from Korea to Indonesia. From World Music factory to Cort. Easy to miss if you didn't see their announcement.

$3600 CDN + 13% HST

How did you get the custom shop contact? I can't seem to find it

@@J_Abad I bought my guitar about 17 years ago so maybe they don't provide those services anymore? It's the only guitar I've bought from them and it's still a blessing to play so I've never have looked for another guitar. Sorry for not being able to give you better info than that. ☹️

Pacifica 612 is a beast

Ha,,,,,,me too!! Made in Japan, right? I got it in '88 and red with white pickguard to try and look like the red Strat David Gilmour was using at the time. Great guitar but I have to take it to a luthier....crazy loud noisy pickups.

@@2010njdevil probably I don’t recall where it was made. Mine was white. 🤘🏻

Thanks man!

buy a second-hand cort = the best deal

it’s the truth. Cort does make guitars for lots of other companies. I’ve got one and it’s a beautiful, well built and well playing guitar for under 600$.

..he's right...100% right..

Indeed, they make almost all "east-made2 guitars for major manufacturers including Ibanez, Washburn and so on.

Depends on the model but it's true

The price tag on a Gibson or Fender makes me say forget it. This Cort looks amazing. $400-800 is the sweet spot for electric guitars I think. My Epiphone Les Paul is pretty damned nice. I can't justify a $3000 guitar. I'd be too afraid to scratch it anyways.

..those are the Big Boys...its jus that the average consumer doesn't really even know what he/she buying...🤔

when i can play as good at Guthrie, Ben Eller and Chris Zoupa i'll make sure to buy a Suhr, until then i'd happily play with that gorgeous Cort.

Where are you located? I might be interested...

@@douglaughlin6139 I am in central California. I only have one left in stock at the moment. I can ship as long as you are in the contiguous states.

Amazing that I read this comment at exactly 4:50 am. Twighlight zone.

4:39🧐

When was that? They have had a good reputation since the 90s

They make all the PRS SE stuff and stuff for lots of manufacturers.

@@morganghetti One of my best friends used to play on one of their strat copies back in the early 90s. Absolute garbage.

How much do the makers get paid?

@@gavin4848 Is this related to the controversy about the mistreatment of Cort's factory workers in Korea?

Nice information.

@@gavin4848 minimum wage workers gets minimum wage, respectively to each area.

Usd 385 is a bargain, we are all twice as much

Just stop caring what your "contemporaries" say about the decal on your head stock. Probably the best session man in Nashville, Jack Pearson, plays a Squier Affinity Strat! He says its resonance is better than his name brand guitars and he played it all the time with the Allman Brothers Band.

Reform? It depends what you're into. If you like features, just look at all the features you get for the price with lesser brand names compared to the big fancy brands. Particularly when it comes to innovations.

I'd say that about sums it up. When you "plate join" wood, there is usually a biscuit or dowel pins used. But I think what you are looking at may simply be a plug they inserted from drilling all the way through for pickup wiring....If that were a true dowel it would mean that it is running parallel with joint. I've never seen or heard of a plate joining with half rounds cut in each piece intended to be joined. Dowels aren't used that way,..typically they are at a 90 degree location relative to the joint. The biscuits or dowels are probably located strategically. Perhaps there is one between the joint between the bottom of the neck pocket and the back side of the guitar. Who knows.

The dowel is in line with the a hole drilled for wires to go between pickup cavities. Doweling after drilling is a nice touch though.

Same in egypt bro Broke family✊

Cort is of very good quality. Gibson on a headstock automatically makes it expensive, yet the quality of their guitars post y2k are subpar!

I wonder about this too.

The main difference is in the average stiffness. The small pots tend to turn more freely. I prefer the looser feel of small pots, but a lot of people don't. Tom Anderson uses alpha small size pots, and most people aren't complaining.

It looks like an Ernie Ball Sabre that has been left in the microwave for too long...

@@dillfunk-vd9je I thought EB also!!

Cort makes non the non U.S.A made PRS, and most other brands too.

4.gitar sayur

I´m planning to buy this guitar, I saw the g300 but I need to save some money this one looks like a good option!

And Fender. And PRS. And btw, the not-made-in-America PRS are made by Cort, as far as I know...

Because Fender and Gibson and PRS have to pay American wages. Not the case in Indonesia.

even mid range Corts like kx300 sounds and look great

I have a Cort Yorktown, wich is one of the top model, and its marvelous sound and comfort never cease to amaze me

I play cort G110 and apart from the chrome hardware plating corroding everything else is fabulous. The pickups are alnico-ferrite-ferrite H-S-S respectively and has medium jumbo frets with maple neck and rosewood fingerboard with poplar/basswood body

Bijo Ariapad - I’m in the U.S. but I’ve seen an Ibanez $1M guitar offered for $98 on Reverb - turned out to be a scam. I have stuck with Sweetwater & Guitar Center for my big purchases (like amplifiers, guitars and cases) and Musician’s Friend for the small stuff (like tuning machines, tuners, strings, picks, etc.).

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@@BBQ1953 Your Reverb example is hilariously hyperbolic. Many smaller guitar shops use Reverb for their online storefront, and every single listing shows who's selling the item. It doesn't take much to tell if you're dealing with a reputable seller. Plus for a brand like Cort, Reverb is one of the only places you can find reputable sellers online here in the U.S. That said, I won't fault you one bit for loyalty to Guitar Center, or Sweetwater(especially Sweetwater, seeing as they're truly phenomenal), but you are sleeping on Reverb. For used and rare stuff there is no better spot to check out, and your insane worst case scenario example is not even vaguely representative of the experience. Additionally Reverb itself has your back on the unlikely event that someone tries to screw you(and no reputable seller will screw you on there). Though maybe you don't have a need for something used or rare, which is fair. Considering neither Sweetwater nor Guitar Center carry Cort electric guitars, what store is trying to sell them at that bogus amount?!(599$ is indeed the going rate in USD) I can't imagine they're getting anyone's money with prices jacked up like that... reminds me of the stores that had the balls to ask for full MSRP for Fender guitars back before they(finally) decided to kill off the BS car dealer pricing model. As for your complaint initial complaint itself, it is disappointing that so many Asian manufacturers still primarily use the tiny pots(even on mid and some high tier instruments). While I've never thought they sounded any worse than a quality CTS pot, nor have I heard any major durability issues with the higher quality dime pots(like this guitar has, or like my MIJ Geddy Lee signature Jazz bass has), I will agree that they "feel" cheap and unsatisfying. On an instrument where they've nailed the specs and feel at a tiny price point everywhere else this is a small but notable downgrade(especially considering how cheap good pots are).