Honestly, this Cort is slightly less resonant in the lower frequencies.
Much better than most people would expect from a moderately priced guitar. Low and behold, when I received the guitar the tone was similar to the J-200. The body and neck materials on the Cort MF710F FM reminded me of a 1964, Gibson J-200 I owned, years ago. When I bought the Cort, I was looking for a cheap guitar to use for my own enjoyment. Also, all the trusses are scalloped (something which is more common on expensively made guitars). If the sides and back are laminated, they'd have to laminated on both sides of each piece, because the inside of the guitar is flamed maple, too. I'm not sure if it's engleman or sitka spruce. Here's a link to the Cort MR710F:įor the whole story regarding Cortez, Cort, and Jack Westheimer follow this link:īill, I can't speak for the Cortez guitar Robert's friend has, but my Cort definately has a solid spruce top. Like your Cortez, it has flamed-maple sides and back, maple neck and a solid spruce top. It listed for about $450 new and is comparable in construction and sound, to guitars costing 3 or 4 times as much. I currently own a used, Cort MR710F which I bought for $150. Robert, if Cortez guitars are anything like Cort, they're probably well made and under priced. This guitar can be heard on the Jimmy Bruno-Joe Beck album "Polarity". At one time, they manufactured a great signature jazz guitar, the 7-string "Joe Beck" model. Cort also manufactures it's own line of "signature" electric guitars such as the "Hiram Bullock", the "Neil Zaza", and the "Pagelli". Because of this volume of production, Cort can manufacture high quality guitars under it's own name, for a fraction of the cost of the more sought after brands. In recent years Cort guitars are credited with making economy priced guitars for many big name companies such as Fender and Gibson and turn out an estimated 1,000,000 guitars annually. Cort guitars are manufactured in South Korea and Indonesia. Cortez guitars later became Cort guitars. Incidentally, the Everly Brothers thought highly of, and played Emperador guitars before the J-200 and Everly "signature" Gibson guitars. Along with Cortez, his name is associated with Kingston, Teisco (later known as Teisco Del Rey), Silvertone, and Emperador brand guitars. Westheimer is credited with being one of the first people involved with global guitar manufacturing/importing. Robert, in a nutshell, Cortez guitars were made in Japan and exported by a company started by a man named Jack Westheimer.