Cort Guitars is a guitar company who are located in South Korea. They are one of the largest guitar manufacturers in the world and produce instruments under their own brand name as well as for many other companies.
They have a great little selection of affordable left handed guitars in a wide variety of attractive designs and finishes. We’ll take a look at the electric models today, but stay tuned for a peek at their left handed acoustic and bass guitar range at a later date…
Cort KX1Q TE Left Handed Guitar
• CONSTRUCTION: Set-in
• BODY: Mahogany w/quilted maple top and Tigers Eye finish
• NECK: Mahogany, Modern “C” Shape
• BINDING: White
• FRETBOARD: Rosewood, 12″ Radius(305mm)
• FRETS: 24 / Large (2.7mm)
• SCALE: 25 1/2″ (648mm)
• INLAY: Abalone dot
• BRIDGE: Tone Pros Lic. Locking bridge (CAVR)w/string thru body
• TUNERS: Die-cast
• PICKUPS: EMG-HZ OPEN SA1(F) & TB1(R) (H-H)
• ELECTRONICS: 1 volume, 1 tone (w/push pull), 3way toggle
• STRINGS: D’Addario USA
• HARDWARE: Black Nickel
Cort M600 BBB Left Handed Guitar
• CONSTRUCTION: Set-in
• BODY: Mahogany w/ quilted maple top in Bright Blue Burst finish
• NECK: Mahogany, Modern “C” Shape
• BINDING: Ivory
• FRETBOARD: Rosewood, 12″ Radius(305mm)
• FRETS: 22 / Large (2.7mm)
• SCALE: 24 3/4″ (629mm)
• INLAY: Rectangular White Pearl w/ Abalone
• BRIDGE: TonePros Lic. Locking C-TPFP bridge & CT1 tailpiece
• TUNERS: Die cast
• PICKUPS: Duncan Designed Chrome Covered HB102 (H-H)
• ELECTRONICS: 1 volume, 1 tone (w/ push pull), 3way toggle
• STRINGS: D’Addario USA
• HARDWARE: Chrome
Cort ZW42 WR Left Handed Guitar
• CONSTRUCTION: Bolt-on
• BODY: Mahogany with Wine Red finish
• NECK: Maple, Modern “C” Shape
• BINDING: n/a
• FRETBOARD: Rosewood, 12″ Radius(305mm)
• FRETS: 22 / Large (2.7mm)
• SCALE: 24 3/4″ (629mm)
• INLAY: White Dot
• BRIDGE: Tone-o-matic bridge (LP2) w /string thru body
• TUNERS: Die-cast
• PICKUPS: EG4LP (H-H)
• ELECTRONICS: 2 volume, 1 tone (w/ push pull), 3way toggle
• STRINGS: D’Addario USA
• HARDWARE: Chrome
Cort X2 BK Left Handed Guitar
• CONSTRUCTION: Bolt-on
• BODY: Basswood with Black Finish
• NECK: Maple, Modern “U” Shape
• BINDING: n/a
• FRETBOARD: Rosewood, 15 3/4″ Radius(400mm)
• FRETS: 24 / Jumbo (2.9mm)
• SCALE: 25 1/2″ (648mm)
• INLAY: White Dot
• BRIDGE: Full Action II
• TUNERS: Die cast
• PICKUPS: EG4B (H-H)
• ELECTRONICS: 1 volume, 1 tone, 5way s/w
• STRINGS: D’Addario USA
• HARDWARE: Chrome
Cort G250 BK Left Handed Guitar
• CONSTRUCTION: Bolt-on
• BODY: Basswood with Black finish
• NECK: Maple, “C” Shape
• BINDING: n/a
• FRETBOARD: Maple, Rosewood, 12″ Radius(305mm)
• FRETS: 22 / Large (2.7mm)
• SCALE: 25 1/2″ (648mm)
• INLAY: Abalone Dot
• BRIDGE: Wilkinson VS50 II
• TUNERS: Die cast
• PICKUPS: MMSB/MMSB/MMHGB (S-S-H)
• ELECTRONICS: 1 volume, 1 tone (w/ push pull), 5way s/w
• STRINGS: D’Addario USA
• HARDWARE: Platinum
Cort G200 BK Left Handed Guitar
• CONSTRUCTION: Bolt-on
• BODY: Basswood
• NECK: Maple, “C” Shape
• BINDING: n/a
• FRETBOARD: Rosewood, 9.5″ Radius(240mm)
• FRETS: 22 / Medium (2.4mm)
• SCALE: 25 1/2″ (648mm)
• INLAY: White Dot
• BRIDGE: EG7BV -40 (10.5) 6-screw Vintage Tremolo
• TUNERS: Die cast
• PICKUPS: EG5B/EG5B/EG5B (S-S-S )
• ELECTRONICS: 1 volume, 1 tone, 5way s/w
• STRINGS: D’Addario USA
• HARDWARE: Chrome
Cort Website
The Cort website is unfortunately not very lefty friendly – that fact is that there isn’t a single mention anywhere of any left handed models whatsoever. I had to contact Cort to obtain a list of their left handed models. There are a couple of left handed models listed in their PDF price list but the rest are mysteriously absent – this leads me to believe that the list I have been supplied with includes guitars no longer in production.
The website doesn’t actually list a few of these guitars in the finishes I was told, so I’d never have known had I not gotten in touch with Cort. Some parts of their website don’t even work at all, for example the specification page for the X2 is broken and doesn’t display – I had to get the specs by looking at the website’s source code!
Cort have a nice little selection of left handed guitars, but their website sure could do with being a little less discriminatory!
For more information:
Cort Guitars Website
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