CORT FLOW-OC

CORT FLOW-OC & GOLD-A6 BOCOTE
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GUITARIST SEPTEMBER 2022
CORT FLOW-OC & GOLD-A6 BOCOTE £1,149 & £959
CONTACT Cort Guitars PHONE [phone] WEB www.cortguitars.com
Our two new models are representative
of Cort’s own extensive acoustic range –
we counted 14 different series on the
company’s website, many of which have a
number of different instruments on offer,
adding up to a considerable list.
Aside from being new 2022, all-solid
wood models, there’s no theme linking
the duo before us; both these guitars
are standalone models and so we will
be looking at them individually, and the
Flow-OC seems a good place to start.
R
egular readers will have spotted
the Cort name cropping up quite
frequently with its well-received
electric models. But as you also may
already know, the huge manufacturing
machine behind the brand, Cor-Tek, also
builds guitars for some of the world’s
leading brands, not least PRS’s electrics
(in Indonesia) and its acoustics and
hollowbodies in China, as well as
Manson’s start-up models and many,
many more.
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What You Need To Know
So, what’s the common
denominator with these two?
Apart from the fact both these
guitars have sprung from the
same factory and bear the Cort
marque, there’s very little similarity
between them. They merely
represent samples from the
array of acoustics available in the
company’s current catalogue.
Bocote… that’s a new one
This is true. Similar in appearance
to ziricote, bocote hails from Central
America and North Amazon regions.
Tone-wise it shares some of the
qualities of a good rosewood with
dashes of tonal colour similar to
that of African blackwood.
Is this another ‘alternative’
wood, then?
Yes. And why not? Despite the fact
many independent luthiers and
big companies have a good (and
perfectly legal) stock of the more
endangered woods, the search for
more sustainable tonewoods that
veer away from the practices of
the past continues apace.
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