CORT FLOW-OC & GOLD-A6 BOCOTE
A pair of contrasting all-solid wood electro-acoustics from Cort’s Chinese workshop with a host of innovative features to their name. Better get cracking, then…
CORT FLOW-OC & GOLD-A6 BOCOTE £1,149 & £959
CONTACT Cort Guitars PHONE +82 2 1800 6951 WEB www.cortguitars.com
Regular 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.
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.
It’s a good-looker, with considerable kerb appeal fresh out of the box
The OC is an OM-sized cutaway, fitted with an LR Baggs Anthem pickup for live use. It’s a good-looker, with considerable kerb appeal fresh out of the box. A closer look reveals a cedar top with mahogany back and sides, which is, of course, a fairly standard combo in acoustic guitars. Cedar is a favourite a
