Ok, this was found in a trash can and recycled. Put new strings on it, adjusted the action and it sounds pretty darn good. Called CORT cause I can't find any info on it and a fella there said it was made in 78. Korean origin.

Anybody ever see on like this? Plays very well, heavy ass neck and a nice round profile like an old LP maybe a 60's style neck for an LP. Has a micro tilt adjustment too which is cool and bullet truss rod. Needs new tunning machines but stays in tune very very well irregardless. Ok let me know and thanks for any info. PS CORT says it was made like 78 according to serial number and they didn't make very many single humbucking guitars.

Cort Serial Number Lookup. Designs and as near as we can determine the majority of better made guitars and basses were Korean. Serial Numbers - Cort serial. You cannot identify a particular Cort model just by the serial number alone. Serial numbers mainly identify the year that the instrument was produced in.

So there ya go. Heard back from CORT. Made between 78 and 80 but probably early 78 according to the serial # and the owner of CORT. List price back then was around 350 maybe a bit more depending on where and who was selling it(retailer). Everything is original on it and it is heavy and like I said has a fat neck. Micro tilt adjustment is cool to fool around and makes a big difference it seems in string height.

Has a bullet truss rod and the input jack it beat up and bent up a bit around the edges but works as it should. One would think it would be a metal guitar, at least I did but it isn't. Nice fat and twangy tones depending on switch position and tone rolled on or off. Sustain is very good too.

Balances nicely on the shoulder too. Pretty happy with it. I have a Cort acoustic steel string, and it is one of the best darn acoustics I have ever played.

I put extra light gauge strings on it so it plays almost like an electric. (Well not quite but the action is great) I put a Fishman transducer pickup under the bridge nut, and only recently I found out that those need a pre-amp so I picked up the Fishman pre-amp for acoustics new for 50 dollars and it sounds sweet. The jack for the plug is in the center of the rear strap holder, so you don't even know the guitar was modified to look at it. Without any electronics being plugged in it has a great tone; solid rosewood back and sides and solid spruce top. I think the fretboard is Ebony. I only paid about $200 for it new.

I must have bought it God knows when, but it was way before the early 90's is all I know. I was just thinking inexpensive acoustic when I got it, but it has turned out to be a gem. I have a Cort Strat copy. Its the regular s-s-s Strat configuration and just has a regular bolt on neck with no tilt feature. The neck is maple/maple and is a fat 'C' shape. 8 Bit Pcm Mono Wav File Download.

Truss rod adjustment is in the cavity. The body is made from some kind of plywood and is seriously heavy. 10lbs or more, definitely heavier than the heaviest Les Paul.

It has more sustain than Pauls and Juniors. The tuners and trem were crap. The trem block wasn't even solid, it was just made from stamped sheetmetal.

I replaced the tuners with Gotoh vintage style and I replaced the trem with one from Allparts. A regular Fender trem wouldn't work because of the narrower string spacing. Another crazy thing about this guitar is that the single coil pickups are larger than Strat single coils. I probably still have the old tuners in a box somewhere if you need a replacement for that one on the end.

But I recommend swapping them for modern tuning heads because they're junk. If that guitar was made in 1978 then I'm Mick Jagger. I'd place it ten years later since it has all the hallmarks of the eighties' Eddie Van Halen one pickup super strat lineage and it also has that eighties Cort Headstock and string guide. In 1978 there simply wasn't a market for a guitar like that.

Serial numbers of Korean guitars are confusing, people I know kept on trying to sell a 1989 Squier (made at the Cort factory) as a 1979 because of them using the Fender serial dating method of the S standing for 'Seventies' and the first number of the digits standing for the year of manufactor. Let me guess, you've send the serial number to Cort without a picture of the guitar itself because I'm pretty sure they wouldn't make a mistake like that.