Cort – Essence-OC4 Black Top Semi Gloss #ES-OC4

$659.99

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The Essence Series offers a pure acoustic guitar experience. By focusing on core elements, we’ve crafted a guitar that delivers exceptional sound and playability at an affordable price. The solid torrefied Sitka spruce top produces a rich, warm tone, perfectly balanced by mahogany back and sides. The intricate herringbone rosette and purfling add visual appeal, while the Fishman preamp system ensures your sound remains clear and vibrant, even on stage. The Essence Series offers the perfect blend of value and performance to suit your style.

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Aged to Vintage Top and Bracing

Using a special process called ATV (Aged To Vintage), we treat the solid Sitka spruce top and bracing to achieve the big, open tone of a decades-old, highly sought-after acoustic guitar. This torrefaction process delivers that amazing tone right out of the box, making the guitar more stable and resonant over time.

OM Cutaway Body Shape

The OM’s compact size is perfect for players with a smaller body frame or those seeking playing comfort. Its bright and strong high-midrange emphasis makes it more suited for fingerpicking than strumming, which often requires more low-end. The Venetian cutaway on this model allows for easy access to the high frets.

The Perfect Wood Combination

Spruce offers an ideal balance of strength and flexibility, making it the most popular choice for acoustic guitar tops. Bright yet natural, with a strong and warm midrange, the beloved mahogany wood has been a standard for the back and sides of premium acoustics for many decades.


Rosewood Fretboard and Bridge

A rosewood fretboard and bridge create a harmonious blend, delivering rich character. The dense, oily properties of rosewood contribute to a warm, balanced sound with exceptional sustain. The fretboard enhances playability with its smooth surface, while the bridge efficiently transfers string vibrations to the guitar’s body, amplifying the instrument’s overall resonance.

Genuine Bone Nut & Saddle

Crafted out of water buffalo bone for the most natural and transparent transfer of string vibrational energy into the body and neck.

Fishman® Presys Preamp

Installed internally without removing any wood, the Presys VT EQ system preserves the guitar’s natural resonance and pure acoustic sound, unlike other systems. The controls are also simple to use, featuring only Volume and Tone.

Herringbone Rosette and Purfling

Herringbone rosette and purfling are exquisite decorative elements that enhance a guitar’s aesthetic appeal. Often associated with vintage instruments, these intricate details add to the overall charm and character of the guitar.

Vintage Open Gear Tuner

With an 18:1 gear ratio, these open-gear tuning machines not only enhance the instrument’s vintage charm but also provide precise tuning adjustments and a classic look.

About Cort
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About CORT

Cort has been a guitar-making brand for more than 50 years with an unabated passion for the guitar. Based on long-standing guitar production knowledge, experience, and faith in quality and value, we constantly study to create the best guitar in the world. Cort's mission is to deliver the best instruments to passionate musicians around the world.

Cor-Tek is a global instrument manufacturer that produces and exports more than one million guitars and 300,000 amplifiers per year worldwide. Based on the technology and experience it has accumulated, its own guitar brand Cort was launched and became a highly sought-after name in the global instrument market for its high quality and excellent design.

Cort guitars are built in the state-of-the-art production facilities in Indonesia and China, based on professional knowledge and experience from our builders. In order to maintain Cort’s core ability for guitar building, we introduced careful wood selection standards, wood drying facilities, advanced CNC equipment and painting processes at an early date, and we continue to invest heavily in the development of facilities and human resources. Cort is committed to making great guitars, offering a more reasonable and diverse price range for various types of players.

Since the 1990s, Cort has collaborated with renowned guitar builders and artists from overseas to showcase innovative guitars. The great list of builders and artists who collaborated with Cort include: Ned Steinberger, Jim Triggs, Greg Curbow, Larry Coryell, Matt Murphy, Hiram Bullock, Joe Beck, Billy Cox, TM Stevens, Neil Zaza, Matthias Jabs, Gene Simmons and most recently Jeff Berlin, Frank Gambale, Hugh Manson, and Matthew Bellamy who worked to develop and launch new guitars with Cort. Performance, reliability and specifications sought by professional builders and artists play a valuable role in creating guitars that satisfy everyone from beginners to professional players.

In the 21st century, Cort is building its faith in great guitar building more than ever. Cort's passion and effort to create the best musical instruments will create more innovative and creative products in the coming future. And we would like to invite you to embark on this endless journey with us.

Shipping

FREE SHIPPING ON MOST PRODUCTS OVER $100

We offer free shipping on most products of $ 100.00 and over with a dimensional weight under 35 pounds.

For orders over $100 with no weight overload or fuel overload, after checking the best delivery options, we could refund you part of shipping fees.

Free shipping is not valid for remote regions such as Nunavut, Yukon, Northwest Territories and the non-metropolitan regions and all other areas driven by our courier. (Purolator / FedEx / UPS). All items will be shipped uninsured via Purolator or Canada Post. Insurance can be added, please just call us to know the details.  It is also possible to deliver order by bus for Quebec resident. Please contact us to get more information about this option.

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Specifications

Specifications

Top MaterialTorrified Solid Sitka Spuce
Back & Sides MaterialMahogany
Body ShapeOM Cutaway
Cutaway StyleVenetian
ConstructionDovetail Neck Joint
Bracing PatternAdvanced Scalloped X-Bracing
Scale Length25.5″ (648mm)
ElectronicsFishman® Presys VT
PickupsFishman® S-core
BindingHerringbone
Sound Hole95mm
RosetteHerringbone
Bridge MaterialRosewood
Bridge Pin MaterialIvory with Black Dot
Nut & SaddleGenuine Bone
Nut Width1 11/16″ (43mm)
Neck MaterialMahogany
Neck ShapeC Shape
Neck Thickness1st Fret: 21.5mm / 8th Fret: 22.0mm
Neck Heel ShapeTriangle Heel Shape
Truss RodDual Acting / 4mm Wrench
Fingerboard MaterialRosewood
Fingerboard Radius15.75” (R400)
Number of Frets20 Frets
InlayDot
Head ShapeCort Basic
Tuning MachinesVintage Open Gear
StringsElixir® Phosphor Bronze Nanoweb Light 12-53
ColorsNatural Semi Gloss (NSG)
Black Top Semi Gloss (BTSG)
SpecialTorrefied Spruce Bracing

Accessories

CaseN/A
LabelN/A
PickguardN/A