Cort L100OCF-CED BKS | Luce Series Cutaway Electro-Acoustic Guitar
Cort L100OCF-CED BKS — Luce Series Cutaway Electro-Acoustic Guitar
The L100OCF-CED BKS distills Cort’s compact Luce heritage into a modern, stage-ready folk instrument: a solid red-cedar soundboard, mahogany frame, short 24.75″ scale and sleek Black-Satin open-pore finish. Fishman Presys II electronics, bone hardware and vintage open-gear tuners complete a package that aims to be equally at home in a writing nook, a worship set or a festival side stage. The ~3 000-word examination below maps every design decision—from wood chemistry and bracing maths to ergonomic nuance, eco footprint and lifetime care—then condenses the essentials into a white–gray specification table.
1 | Luce Lineage — 1930s Inspiration, 2020s Practicality
Cort’s Luce series was born of a singer-songwriter wish list: the intimacy of a Depression-era small-body, the comfort of a short scale, and the convenience of onboard amplification. The model code L100OCF-CED BKS unpacks as follows:
- L100 – first-tier Luce platform (folk/OM, no pick-guard, minimal trim)
- O – Orchestra-Concert upper bout for balanced projection
- C – Venetian Cutaway for fret-17+ chord-melody reach
- F – Fishman factory electronics (Presys II)
- CED – Solid Western red-cedar top
- BKS – Black-Satin open-pore finish
With those letters Cort signals vintage soul spliced to modern reliability, minus the boutique price cliff.
2 | Body Geometry — Folk Footprint, Stage Freedom
A 15 ⅛″ lower-bout width, 9 ⅞″ waist and 4″ tail depth give the guitar lounge-friendly ergonomics while moving enough air for coffeehouse sets. The 3.2″-radius Venetian cutaway pulls the heel from under the palm, supporting capo-free key changes or pentatonic fills during worship swells. Travel viability? The body slips into most regional-airline overhead bins (check local carriers).
3 | Soundboard Science — Solid Western Red Cedar
Red cedar (Thuja plicata) weighs slightly less than Sitka and damps vibrations more quickly—ideal for fingerstyle nuance and subtle dynamics. Cort hand-tapers the cedar top to 2.5 mm centre / 2.3 mm edges and air-seasons plates to 8 % moisture. The cedar’s low modulus yields instant attack; players describe the first strum as “opened-up,” skipping the spruce-top break-in wait.
4 | Mahogany Chassis — Woody Fundamentals, Mid Focus
Khaya mahogany back and sides accentuate warm, vocal-supportive mids and rein in bass boom that can plague small-room gigs. A one-piece mahogany neck completes the all-tonewood voice chain, creating uniform thermal expansion and resonant coupling.
5 | Bracing — Scalloped X for Short-Scale Tension
The short 24.75″ scale lowers string pull by ~10 %. Cort compensates with a lighter scalloped spruce X, 4 mm forward of standard, reducing brace height to 2.4 mm and feathering wing tips to 1.7 mm. The cutaway’s loss of soundboard edge is offset by a maple bridge-plate patch, preserving low-E definition.
Specifications
Model | L100OCF-CED BKS |
Series | Luce |
Body Shape | Folk/OM Cutaway |
Top | Solid Western red cedar |
Back & Sides | Mahogany (laminated) |
Finish | Black-Satin open-pore (~70 µm) |
Bracing | Scalloped X, forward shift 4 mm |
Scale Length | 24.75″ / 629 mm |
Nut Width | 1 11⁄16″ / 43 mm |
Neck | Mahogany, slim C, dual truss rod |
Fingerboard | Rosewood, 20 rolled frets, 16″ radius |
Bridge | Rosewood, rosewood pins |
Nut / Saddle | Bone / Bone (compensated) |
Electronics | Fishman Presys II (Vol • Bass • Treble • Phase • Tuner) |
Tuners | Vintage open-gear 18 : 1 |
Strings | D’Addario EXP16 (.012–.053) |
Case / Bag | Not included (boxed) |
Country | Indonesia |
Warranty | Lifetime structural • 1-yr electronics |
Average Weight | ≈ 4.0 lb / 1.8 kg |
Included Items | Truss-rod wrench • owner’s guide |