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Aged to Vintage Top

A vintage instrument is the holy grail of acoustic guitar tone. The wood on the top cures and opens up more over time. This unleashes a tonal quality that is missing in new instruments – until now. Using a special process we call ATV (Aged To Vintage), we treat the solid sitka spruce top to give it that big and open tone of a decades-old, highly-sought-after acoustic. This torrefaction process delivers that amazing tone to you right out of the box.

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Solid Sitka Spruce & Solid Pau Ferro Wood Combination

Featuring superior strength and dense grains along with the flexibility to resonate freely, the premium grade solid Sitka spruce top on the Gold Series is ideal for virtually any musical genre with a brilliant and clear high-end, warm and rich midrange, and a deep but tight low-end for a beautifully balanced sound.

Pau Ferro, also known as Morado, Santos Rosewood or Bolivian Rosewood, boasts many of the qualities that are highly regarded in tonewood that is close to Indian Rosewood. It is stable, abrasion resistant, stiff, attractive, exotic and has good impression strength parallel to the grain.

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Auditorium Cutaway Body Type

With dimensions of 4 5/8″ (117mm) body depth, upper bout width at 11 1/2″ (292mm) and lower bout width at 16″ (405mm), the Auditorium body size is perfectly in between the large Dreadnought and the more intimate Grand Concert. This makes the Auditorium body type ideal for both strumming/flatpicking and fingerstyle playing and suits the versatile acoustic player who prefers to have one guitar to cover a variety of sounds and playing styles.

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Fishman® Flex Blend System

With a sophisticated modern design and innovative technical engineering, the Fishman® Flex Blend System offers a wide range of sonic control along with a built-in tuner. Volume, Tone, Phase, Blend and Tuner functions are all available from three knobs and the tuner display. You can also adjust the Tone knob to best suit fingerpicking or strumming techniques without feedback issues and other sonic anomalies while delivering the most natural acoustic sound to your amplification system.

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Walnut Reinforced Neck

The neck on the Gold has been reinforced for added rigidity and stability using two special inserts. This is constructed with two pieces of walnut installed to add stability while still retaining the natural properties of wood to further upgrade the Gold.

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Hand-Rolled Fret Edge Treatment

The shaping and treatment of a guitar’s frets have a big impact on comfort and performance. Most guitar makers simply bevel the frets at each end to eliminate the sharp edges. Boutique acoustic builders, however, use a method to dress their frets to make them round, smooth, and ultra-comfortable to touch and play. This process is highly complex and time-consuming and requires the skilled workmanship of experienced craftsmen. On the Gold, the Cort offers this enhancement typically reserved for much higher priced instruments.

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Neck Profile

Cort has developed comfortable dimensions in neck thickness from the headstock to the heel to increase comfort in your hands and optimize playability. To assure consistency, Cort uses state-of-the-art CNC machines to accurately mill each and every neck. Each neck is then carefully sanded and finished by skilled craftsmen who have a dedication and passion for building some of the best acoustic guitars in the world.

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Sonically Enhanced UV Finish

UV finish is about 30% thinner than standard finishes and this allows the wood to “breathe” and vibrate more freely. This process requires a shorter drying time and reduces chemical interaction between the finish and the woods,which is ideal for your instrument’s longevity. Due to the much shorter drying time and the lack of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) in the UV finish material, it is also an environmentally friendly process. This high-tech finish is strong enough to be resistant to scratches but light weight enough to improve the natural acoustic resonance of the body for a full, rich tone.

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Ebony Fingerboard

There are many types of woods that are used for fingerboard but no other compares to the jet-black beauty and slick smoothness of Ebony.
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Ebony Bridge Pins

The high density of Ebony wood keeps the fundamental acoustic sound focused and tight with greater sonic projection than plastic, enhancing the transfer of the string vibrations throughout the soundboard top, body and the neck.
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Exclusive Deluxe Soft-Side Case

The new Cort Deluxe Soft-Side Case is not only stylish and sleek, but combines the best attributes of a hard case with the flexibility of a padded gig-bag for superb protection for the instrument as well as excellent portability.
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Specifications

Overview

Top Material

 Torrefied Solid Sitka Spruce

Back & Sides Material

 Solid Pau Ferro

Body Shape

 Grand Auditorium

Body Finish

 Gloss

Construction

 Dovetail Neck Joint at 14Fret

Bracing Pattern

 Hand Scalloped X-Bracing

Scale Length

 25.5″ (648mm)

Electronics

 Fishman® Flex Blend

Body Binding Material

 White ABS

Rosette

 Abalone with ABS Multi Ring

Bridge Material

 Ebony

Bridge Pin Material

 Ebony with White Dot

Saddle

 Genuine Bone

Neck Material

 Walnut Reinforced Mahogany

Neck Shape

 Comfort C Shape

Neck Finish

 Satin

Nut Material

 Genuine Bone

Nut Width

 1 3/4″ (44.5mm)

Fingerboard Material

 Ebony

Fingerboard Radius

 15.75″ (R400)

Number of Frets

 20 Frets

Inlay

 Gold Custom Inlay

Tuning Machines

 Deluxe Vintage Gold

Strings

 Elixir® Phosphor Bronze
Nanoweb Light 12-53

Colors

 Light Burst Gloss (LB)
Natural Gloss (NAT)
Headstock

Headstock Shape

 Gold Head Shape

Headplate Material

 Black ABS

Head Back Plate Material

 N/A

Headplate Logo Style

 Gold Logo Style

Headplate Logo Material

 Mother-of-Pearl

Headplate Inlay Material

 Abalone, Mother-of-Pearl

Head Binding Material

 White ABS

Head Purfling Material

 Black ABS

Headplate Finish

 Gloss

Head Volute

 Round Volute
Neck

Neck Thickness

 1st Fret: 21.5mm / 8th Fret: 22.0mm

Neck Heel Shape

 Triangle Heel Shape

Neck Heel Cap

 Walnut

Fingerboard Inlay Material

 Abalone, Mother-of-Pearl

Fingerboard Binding Material

 White ABS

Fingerboard Purfling Material

 Black ABS

Truss Rod

 Dual Acting / 4mm Wrench

Fret type

 2.4mm Width with Edge Treatment

Side Position Mark

 Dot
Body

Sound Port (Hole)

 100mm

Bracing Material

 Spruce

Bridge String Spacing

 54.1mm

Body Purfling Material

 Black & White ABS

Back Strip Material

 Wooden ‘ZIGZAG' Pattern

Bevel Cut

 N/A

Endpiece Material

 Black & White ABS

Cutaway Style

 Venetian
Accessories

Case

 Cort Premium Gigbag

Label

 Paper Label

Pickguard

 Tortoise