Cort CORE-PE AMH-OPBB — Core Series Electro-Acoustic Guitar

The CORE-PE AMH-OPBB squeezes Cort’s back-to-basics ethos into a cutaway parlor footprint: all-solid African mahogany, an 80 µm open-pore black-burst finish and a workhorse CE304T preamp. What follows is a narrative (~3 000 words) mapping every contour—design philosophy, body ergonomics, tone-wood chemistry, bracing arithmetic, electronics architecture, eco commitments and lifetime care—then distilling the essentials in a white-gray spec table.

1 | Core Line Manifesto — Pay for Tone, Not Glitter

Cort’s Core series strips away high-gloss lacquer, multicolour purfling and fancy abalone so that every dollar funnels into resonance, playability and dependability. In the AMH-OPBB trim (African Mahogany · Open-Pore Black-Burst) that philosophy is turned up to 11: three pieces of real mahogany, two coats of breathable finish and one reason for being—to sound huge without looking loud.

2 | Parlor-Cutaway Geometry — Sofa-Friendly, Stage-Capable

With a 13 ⅞″ lower-bout width, 9 ¾″ waist and 4″ tailblock depth, the parlor silhouette parks comfortably on a couch yet projects enough to front a coffee-shop set. A soft Venetian cutaway (≈3.5″ radius) clears fret 17, unlocking full-neck chord-melody and high-capo voicings. The small footprint shortens the cantilever arm over the right shoulder; three-hour songwriting marathons feel like casual warm-ups.

3 | Tone-Wood Matrix — All-Solid African Mahogany

Top · Back · Sides. Quarter-sawn Khaya mahogany brings punchy midrange, quick fundamental bloom and drier high end than spruce—perfect for mics that live on spoken-word podcasts or singer-songwriter livestreams.
Neck. Single-piece mahogany encloses a dual-action truss rod; open-pore satin on the back evades palm suction under clammy lights.
Fingerboard & Bridge. Ovangkol delivers rosewood-class density with caramel streaks that glint beneath the black-burst perimeter.

4 | Bracing Science — Advanced Scalloped X Shrunk for Parlor

Cort’s spruce X-bars intersect 4 mm nearer the sound-hole versus the dread Core siblings, releasing the parlor’s lower bout for bass. Wings are scalloped to 1.7 mm tips; plate mass settles near 165 g—light enough to chirp at fingertip, tough enough to survive busking down-strums in open D.

5 | Open-Pore Black-Burst — Breath First, Beauty Second

The finish stack equals two coats: a water-borne pore sealer and a matte polyurethane clear (~80 µm total). Pores show, wood breathes, weight drops. A charcoal-to-espresso fade frames the warm brown core, looking boutique at TikTok distance while costing mass-production money.

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