Product: Cort Earth 150
Price Paid: UNKNOWN
Submitted
06/05/2007
at
10:34pm
by
georgiacuz48
Email: georgiacuz48<at>yahoo dot com
Features
:
8
sunburst finish,dreadnought body style ?tuners but well made,neck thin like my aj epiphone but has unfinished look to it but chords and scales good.china made laminated top,bright finish.unknown wood in neck and body but has a strong and vibrant sound,well rounded
Sound
:
10
just to jam with excellent
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
7
body finish nice,but has no finish on neck,bland
Reliability/Durability
:
7
a good beginner
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Overall Rating
:
8
i've been playing 35 yrs,and i own a custem aj epiphone flattop,electric. a fender stratocaster,bass,new york pro electric,piano, drums.its a bargain guitar i guess but it plays and sounds as good as most of the rest a poor person can afford
Product: Cort Earth 150
Price Paid: US $60 used
Submitted
08/12/2004
at
11:35am
by
Anonymous
Features
:
8
Solid spruce top, 20 frets, 25.25" neck. Dreadnought. I think the back and neck are mahogany, but I'm not sure; check the listings for the 150F. It's probably similar. Dunno where or when it was made.
Tuners aren't awesome, but then again, I'm nuts about tuning, "that is NOT a C, mr. electric tuner" nuts, so your mileage may vary. They're well past acceptable, anyway, and they're better than any other guitar I've played. Teeensy neck -- almost the same size as on my Harmony H0201, which is a glorified ukelele. Only one strap button, and it falls out a lot. Like, every time I use the strap.
Sound
:
9
Briiiiiiiight sound. I play mostly liturgical music, alternative (Radiohead, Moist, Unbelievable Truth) and strange arrangements of classical pieces that have no business on a guitar (orchestral lieder, opera), and it works beautifully for all three. Leans pretty far treble.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
10
Action fine, bridge/etc. fine so far as I know. No buzz. The finish still looks new after a year, despite living in a high-gravel, wooden-shoe-ful, caseless environment. Beautiful, beautiful guitar.
Reliability/Durability
:
10
I've fallen on it several times, and it's always hurt me worse than I hurt it (like the time I broke my fall with my forehead, on the headstock). Seriously, this guitar is an axe, in the sense that you could probably chop wood with it. I've dropped it, I've dropped stuff on it, and I don't even own a case for it -- and it's still in perfect condition. Not even a ding in the finish.
On the other hand, in certain climates the fifteenth (fourteenth?) fret expands, or else something underneath it does, making two or three frets below it useless on the top strings. No other frets swell, and none of the wood swells. This seems to happen mostly in extremely low humidity, the kind of weather where you get electric shocks from tissues, so I have no clue what causes it. Anyway, it does it for two or three months in the winter, then goes away. I've never known anyone else with this problem.
Still, I'm giving it a ten, because I weigh 175 lb.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Never dealt with them. Guitars bought from Cort come with a lifetime warranty, but I bought mine "used" (listed as used, but new as far as I could tell -- still had plastic on it), so who knows.
Overall Rating
:
No Opinion
Played for seven years. I don't know what my other full-size acoustic is (can't identify the headstock symbol, and the person who bought it [in the '30s] is dead) -- and you can't really compare anything to my bass ukelele. Cheap electric for emergency use.
If my 150 were lost or stolen, I'd definitely get another Cort Earth, but probably the 200.
