Cort SFX 10

I recently took delivery of a new cort sfx 10 natural colour. This is one seriously "pretty" guitar.To say that it is a fantastic guitar for the money (AUS $780) is quite irrellevant. This guitar is an incredidibly good guitar, irrespective of the price!!!
Engleman spruce top (solid), ebony bridge and frett board (good solid black all the way, no fillers or patchy wood), quilt maple arched back@ sides, flawless build. High quality tuners, on board fishman prefix T which sound absolutely stunning, fantastic deep tight bass and clear detailed highs. Nothing quacky or shrill.A friend came over to test it out through my Laney 15" soundhub, and the sound was that pristine and detailed you would sware you were listening to one of those sunday morning coffee chill out cd's.

unamplified it produces the sounds you'd expect from a really good guitar. the volume is good unamplified and balances well with an unamplified voice. Plugged in is a whole new world, the sound is really up there among the much higher priced Matons, takamines, Godin multiacs and so forth. It really does hold its own and this guitar would be at least half to a third of the price of the instruments I've refered to above.

I changed the supplied strings with Phos bronze 10-48 which suit my mainly fingerstyle playing. this immediately boosted the volume and sound. (came with coated 80/20 brnze, the coateds loose some of the sparkling edge I think). Fitted the lower bridge (comes witha tool kit and various hight bridges)the action is 2mm at 12th frett wood to string, quite low and butter soft fretting, good for my style, however if you play the big ham-fist strum just replace the supplied higher bridge an by0pass the $100 an hour set-up luthier.
Among my musical commrades we have at our dissposal about 5 custom shop/hand built cort sfx's and NTL's these are as good a guitar you can buy and this factory assembly line sfx 10 is not to far out of the field and at a tremendously reduced price,

Have been playing (among others) these corts for about 5 years now without any drama, which is morev than I can say for some of these fantastic and hellishly expensive Canadian products which have needed complete neck refurbishments and the like done to them: the warranties seem to be written on a toilrt roll. We did have a glich with one of the fishman systems in a custom cort, it was replaced for us without a song and dance routine.

the shop I deal with is quite OK we've got a good respect bothways.

I've been playing about 40years now and have quite a few good instruments. My view is that an instument is to be played and respected, not hung up in a glass cabinet believing some day it may be worth a million dollars.I look for bang for the buck. It's all very well having a $25,000 Gibson (yes I've seen them) but do you take it out on the road and use it? can you insure it? can you afford to insure it? Quite seriuosly a while ago I was recovering from an operation and a good friend (teacher and awsome player) took me for a drive to another city to check out this mega musco store, they had 2 try out lounges with leather sofas. One lounge had all your guitars $100 up to $1200 the other lounge had your winners are grinners guitars $2500 up tp $12500. Guess what we tried them all; verdict: a $850 cedar top Crafter blew them all away for sound,
volume, you name it.

My advice is you need to BE THERE and TRY IT OUT all the rest is purely middlemen, hype and advertising. The Cort sfx 10 compares extremely well with much more expensive guitars; and by the way all my gear head musco mates love it. The shop has more on order as a result of the great interest in mine.