Cort AS-1 thin bodied acoustic guitar with red binding and inlay

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There is a part of me, one clearly rooted in the 1980s I'm sure, that would love to have this Cort AS-1 acoustic guitar. I did a quick search and found very little information about this guitar other than a few reviews that go from poor to a comparison to a Chet Atkins signature guitar. I would suspect that it was manufactured in the early 1990s even though it screams 1987 to me and that it was likely made in Korea. 

The seller claims that this is a "rarest of the rare" guitar and it may very well be. But sometimes items are rare because they weren't good enough to make a lot of them. That said, the seller also claims that this was a $1400 guitar when purchased new, so it may be an example of higher quality from Cort. There is a huge diversity in the Cort guitars I've played, so I guess it's possible that this is one of the better ones.

Has anyone played one of these?

Currently listed at $299 Canadian.

R.W. Haller

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Cort Effector Guitar likely from the 1980s with onboard effects

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I've never seen the Cort Effector guitar. This Effector looks like a nice Explorer in its own right. Given the look of the electronics I'd assume that this guitar is from circa early 1980s. That would likely mean that it was built in Japan, and probably a pretty good player.  I'm sure the quality of the on-board effects is pretty low, but they are push button on and off, and that is tres-cool.

Also the Speed knob would really improve my playing, unless of course that is only for the speed of the effects.

Currently listed at $180 Canadian.

The seller links to this Reverb sale as a comparison, so I grabbed a couple of pictures form there as well.

R.W. Haller

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Cort Jim Triggs Thinline

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I wanted to post about the Cort Jim Triggs thinline hollow-body for a while now, this transparent orange TRG1 is a good opportunity. These really good-looking guitars are hollow-bodies, that means that they have no central beam like semi-hollows - so the stop tail is not screwed on the archtop but is a long model tail piece. I really love the very special and still very simple cutaway, also the tear-drop F-holes. Sobriety and strong impact!

The TRG1 has a single neck pickup and a wooden bridge, that makes it what is considered as a jazz guitar. Here on the right is the TRG2 with 2 humbuckers, a Bigsby and a pickguard - and it looks pretty good in black too. I would put the perfect TRG between these 2 models - with transparent black finish, 2 humbuckers and a stop-tail!

This guitar was produced in the mid-90s, strangely neither Cort nor Jim Triggs websites mention it...

Bertram

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