Is Cort crap??? No!
Cranky
I'd post. I have a Triggs 2. Hollow body with the teardrop holes. Best
thinline I've ever had. Love the guitar. My all time favorite. Love
the Mighty Mite pickups. They are superb. Don't know anything about
the solid bodies you are considering, or how the MM pickups would
sound in them. Mighty Mite has a website. This is actually Cort, and
you can talk to somebody about Cort guitars through the phone number
there. I took a chance on my Triggs 2 on Ebay. Fine guitar. Quality
control the best. Gibson and Gretsch, take a hike. No shit. The only
thing I saw compare was a super nice Guild.
"JM" <johnmerkins@NO_SPAM.hotmail.com> wrote in message news:3d6b1...@news1.mweb.co.za...
> Let me repost with a more provocative subject line :)
>
> Anybody own a Cort mahogany solidbody, i.e. the M-520, M-600, M-700 or
> CL-1000? Or even the MGM (yes, it's agathis, but same sort of idea)?
>
> I'm a lifelong player of strats and stratty things and, as middle age sets
> in, I find myself wanting a mellower tone and deeper crunch. Short scale
> would be interesting too. But I'm not about to spring for a Les Paul
> (horrendously expensive here in Africa), and I'm not convinced by Epiphone
> quality -- or, rather, I don't know if I could be seen dead with such a
> Gibson wannabe. Rather play an Asian guitar that doesn't pretend to lofty
> American origins.
>
> The Corts I've listed above seem to be very nice guitars. I like what I've
> felt/heard/seen of them in the shop. I've had a
> top-line Cort acoustic for a few years and it's great. I'd like to know how
> the Cort mahogany solidbodies stand up to a few years of use, and whether
> the tone they produce remains satisfying. And how do people feel about the
> Mighty Mite "vintage alnico" humbuckers that they have on them?
>
> Please let me know, and whether you'd recommend one model over the others.
>
> Thanks
>
> JM
JM
I should try out a Triggs if I can find one.
JM
Cranky <bopca...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Richard Liang
one I've ever seen at the price range. Even the Duncan Designed pickups
aren't too shabby. Mostly though, it plays like a dream and the
acoustic tone is amazing. Now they have real Duncans, which must make
it even better.
I'm very impressed with the Corts I've seen.
Richard
JM
> Mighty Mite has a website. This is actually Cort, and
> you can talk to somebody about Cort guitars through the phone number
> there. I took a chance on my Triggs 2 on Ebay. Fine guitar. Quality
So MM is Cort? I remember Mighty Mite as a seller of aftermarket bits and
pieces, including pickups, from way, way back -- possibly as long ago as the
70s. Did Cort emerge from MM, or vice versa? How long has Cort been branding
stuff under its own name, anyway?
JM
HPIman
this level of workmanship for under $400. I think these go for around
$300 on e-bay.
I heard that Hamer contracts CORT to make the Hamer import models???
Not sure if this is true though.
Garrett
Cranky
>
> > Mighty Mite has a website. This is actually Cort, and
> > you can talk to somebody about Cort guitars through the phone number
> > there. I took a chance on my Triggs 2 on Ebay. Fine guitar. Quality
>
> pieces, including pickups, from way, way back -- possibly as long ago as the
> 70s. Did Cort emerge from MM, or vice versa? How long has Cort been branding
> stuff under its own name, anyway?
>
> JM
Now, this is where usenet and I part company. I've told you that you
can call yourself. Do it. I don't have time to spin round and round.
Cranky
>
> > Mighty Mite has a website. This is actually Cort, and
> > you can talk to somebody about Cort guitars through the phone number
> > there. I took a chance on my Triggs 2 on Ebay. Fine guitar. Quality
>
> pieces, including pickups, from way, way back -- possibly as long ago as the
> 70s. Did Cort emerge from MM, or vice versa? How long has Cort been branding
> stuff under its own name, anyway?
>
> JM
Why don't you... CALL CORT THROUGH MIGHTY MITE LIKE I TOLD YOU THAT
YOU COULD DO, FOR CRYING OUT LOUD?!
It is shit like this that makes usenet such a waste of time.
Cranky
> "JM" <johnmerkins@NO_SPAM.hotmail.com> wrote in message news:3d6b8...@news1.mweb.co.za...
> >
> > > Mighty Mite has a website. This is actually Cort, and
> > > you can talk to somebody about Cort guitars through the phone number
> > > there. I took a chance on my Triggs 2 on Ebay. Fine guitar. Quality
> >
> > pieces, including pickups, from way, way back -- possibly as long ago as the
> > 70s. Did Cort emerge from MM, or vice versa? How long has Cort been branding
> > stuff under its own name, anyway?
> >
> > JM
>
>
> Why don't you... CALL CORT THROUGH MIGHTY MITE LIKE I TOLD YOU THAT
> YOU COULD DO, FOR CRYING OUT LOUD?!
>
> It is shit like this that makes usenet such a waste of time.
Sorry JM. There is an obvious reason why I call myself, "Cranky."
Because I often am. It is just that the go round and round thing
starts to wear on usenet. You can find out for yourself what is going
on with a phone call.
Andy van Tol
Ask them, I did, they're very open about it.
Andy
Fuente
"JM" <johnmerkins@NO_SPAM.hotmail.com> wrote:
Umm, back to the original question... I took delivery of my Cort M600
about a week ago. Had to wait approx, a month. Paid $399 in Ohio. My
other guitar is a MIM Strat, 4 months old. Both guitars were sort of
impulse buys..the Strat when I was visiting my brother in Atlanta. He
was down in the dumps, we had a few beers , visited GC and my new hobby
was born. Haven't played since college 20 years ago. Love my Strat and
really want to get serious this time around. Anyway, I was looking at
EPI LPs when MF had them marked down. Read a couple postings about the
Cort M600, did a little research and laid down the money. I am IN LOVE
with it. Now, I don't know crap I'll admit, but this guitar is gorgeous
(honeyburst). It feels perfect to me; weight, scale, action, my fingers
flew up and down the neck. I took some pics of it at work and when I get
bored I run a slideshow of it! I know none of this really means squat to
you guys, but I'm thinking about it at work, and playing it whenever I
have any free time at home. Using a Fender Frontman 25 I hear the
difference between my Strat, but the main thing is it 's just more fun
to play. I feel like I'm holding an instrument that's worth a lot more
than I paid.. can't say the same about the Fender (although I DO respect
Strats, in fact I was going to buy another American, but couldn't
justify the price diff). The humbuckers pop with sound, I do like the
clean sound on the Fender slightly more than on the Cort, but I haven't
experimented long enough to be sure.
Wrapping up, I cannot find a flaw of any kind in the Cort's
physique...beautiful mahogany, thick maple cap, sweet abalone inlays,
well..it almost makes me blow off work to stay home and play (not a
brilliant idea nowadays). I am very, very happy with mine. I don't see
how you could possibly be disappointed.
JM
> > YOU COULD DO, FOR CRYING OUT LOUD?!
> >
> > It is shit like this that makes usenet such a waste of time.
>
> Sorry JM. There is an obvious reason why I call myself, "Cranky."
> Because I often am. It is just that the go round and round thing
> starts to wear on usenet. You can find out for yourself what is going
> on with a phone call.
Ummmmm, actually I can't call Mighty Mite or Cort or anybody else in the US.
I'm in South Africa where even US toll-free numbers cost me several dollars
a minute (and my currency is 10 to the dollar). You might have picked up my
location from my original post.
Apology accepted, nonetheless. But I disagree that it would be a waste of
your time or anyone else's if you explained the relationship between Cort
and MM as it was explained to you on the phone. Your reply would go into the
Google archive and then many people like me wouldn't need to ask the
question again. At the moment, there's almost nothing about Cort the
company.
JM
JM
> aftermarket bits and
> > pieces, including pickups, from way, way back -- possibly as
> long ago as the
> > 70s. Did Cort emerge from MM, or vice versa? How long has Cort
> been branding
> > stuff under its own name, anyway?
>
> Ask them, I did, they're very open about it.
>
> Andy
I'd love to ask them, but I can't. I'm in South Africa!
JM
JM
Fuente <jrubey@NO_SPAMMOsprynet.com> wrote in message
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> EPI LPs when MF had them marked down. Read a couple postings about the
> Cort M600, did a little research and laid down the money. I am IN LOVE
> with it. .... [snip] .... I don't see
> how you could possibly be disappointed.
Thanks for the vote of confidence. I went and played several Corts in the
shop yesterday but, sadly, the only M-600 they had was cursed with very old
strings and the tone was unimpressive. Same thing for their only CL-1000. An
M-700 (the M-600 with a Wilkinson trem) sounded and played very nicely
indeed, as it did the last time I fiddled with it. But I don't want a guitar
with a trem (I have enough of those). And I'm wondering, probably
erroneously, whether the M-700 has premium pickups along with its other
zooty hardware. So I'll go back next week, by when they've promised to
restring the M-600 and CL-1000, taking my own tube amp, Pod and headphones.
I'm also going to play a whole lot of Epi LPs to make sure prejudice isn't
blinding me. And other stuff too, including a couple of Cort MGMs. Hah! I
have a pleasant day off ahead.
JM
stuart
value, great build quality. I can't fault it. I just can't play it as nice
as it looks.
Stuart
"Richard Liang" <rhl...@interchange.ubc.ca> wrote in message
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Carl McCaskey
my only dealings with Cort guitars were a couple of years ago at some shops
I visited on vacation. They mostly carried the Cort strat copies and I was
less than impressed with them. The quality on those were well below average
with uneven fretwork, poor pickups and other quality control problems. At
that time I would not have even recommended them for beginner guitars (they
were that bad IMHO). I also will point out that sometimes the most expensive
guitars just don't feel "right" to some folks for whatever reasons (in my
case, I just don't care for the PRS guitars that I have tried - can't put my
finger on why, I just know the ones I have tried just don't feel "right" for
me). Over time I have discovered that if one is happy with the guitar, it
don't matter whose name is on the headstock. Best to try before you buy
whenever possible.
Carl
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