New models offer ergonomic designs and exotic tonewoods at affordable prices.
Cort has introduced the Bevel Cut Collection, a new series of acoustic guitars designed with an ergonomic beveled cutaway. The four models in the collection include two Grand Regal Bevel grand auditorium models, a dreadnought-sized Earth Bevel and an orchestra model Luce Bevel.
All four guitars boast solid Sitka spruce tops, 20-fret mahogany necks, ovangkol fretboards and bridges, dovetail neck joints, a 25.3 inch scale and 1 11/16-inch nut width.
The two Grand Regal Bevel models are the GA-MY Bevel, which features myrtlewood arched back and sides, and the GA-PF Bevel, boasting pau ferro back and sides. Both models feature arched backs and L.R. Baggs preamps, as well as diecast gold tuners with black knobs, ebony bridge pins and an abalone rosette that corresponds to the top-rim binding.
The Earth Bevel and Luce Bevel feature mahogany back and sides, with diecast machine heads and a herringbone rosette.
The Grand Regal models are being offered for $899.99, with the Earth Bevel and Luce Bevel at $399.99.
Rich is the co-author of the best-selling Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion. He is also a recording and performing musician, and a former editor of Guitar World magazine and executive editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine. He has authored several additional books, among them Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, the companion to the documentary of the same name.