Cort Cut Craft Natural — Limited-Edition Electro-Acoustic Guitar

The Cort Cut Craft Natural distills boutique lutherie into a modern, limited-edition grand-auditorium that revels in flamed maple optics and torrefied Sitka dynamics. Sharp Florentine cutaway, satin-edge arm-bevel, sculpted player-port, carbon-reinforced roasted-maple neck and LR Baggs VTC electronics converge under an ultra-thin natural gloss. Only 350 individually numbered pieces will ever exit Cort’s Korean Custom Facility, each accompanied by a holographic certificate and lifetime structural warranty. The ~3 000-word narrative below unpacks every nuance—design ethos, tonewood synergy, bracing calculus, ergonomics, stage electronics, sustainability and long-term stewardship—before closing with a concise white-and-gray specification table.

1. Design Intent — Craft, Cut & Clarity

“Cut Craft” began life as a mood-board of diagonal lines: angular art-deco skylines, precision-milled Japanese joinery, the Phrygian-cap curve of a Florentine cutaway. Cort’s brief was to pair sharp visual geometry with an organic wood palette—hard-flamed maple for architecture, torrefied spruce for warmth. The result is an instrument whose edges look chiselled by light yet whose voice stays rooted in classic acoustic timbre.

2. Body Geometry — Grand-Auditorium Footprint, Florentine Reach

The lower bout measures 16″, the waist 11½″, and the tail-block depth 4 ⅝″, tapering to 3 ⅞″ at the neck block. That volume supports dreadnought-grade headroom while the waist focuses mids so vocals remain intelligible. The Florentine cutaway—an acute 60° horn capped by 3 mm ebony binding—opens effortless access to fret 20. A koa/maple arm bevel (6-ply purfling) removes the pressure ridge under the forearm, granting marathon-set comfort.

3. Player-Port — Self-Monitoring Without Wedges

A teardrop player-port on the upper bass bout, chamfered to 5 mm, is supported by a spruce wing brace. Lab tests confirm a 2.9 dB near-field SPL increase with <0.3 dB front-loss. Acoustic feedback is unchanged, yet performers hear micro‐dynamics and ghost notes—allowing lighter right-hand work and truer intonation.

4. Tonewood Alchemy — Torrefied Sitka × AAA Flamed Maple

Top. AAAAA Sitka spruce torrefied at 175 °C for four hours, driving out volatiles and crystallising cellulose. Attack quickens, sustain elongates, colour deepens to honey. Back & Sides. AAA flamed European maple, kiln-dried to 7 % EMC, then finished translucent natural so every curl glimmers. Maple brings percussive clarity and tight low-end; torrefied spruce tames maple’s glassy zing with aged warmth. Neck. One-piece roasted maple, twin carbon rails, dual-action truss rod. Maple-on-maple resonance keeps highs snappy while carbon stabilises against seasonal creep.

5. Bracing Engineering — Hybrid Scalloped X with Maple Tone-Bars

The forward-shifted X (Adirondack spruce) is scalloped to 1.9 mm at feather tips. Two quarter-sawn maple tone-bars couple the bridge plate to the maple back, syncing longitudinal velocity and ensuring note decay stays even across registers. Free-plate mass lands at 174 g—light enough for percussive slaps, stiff enough for drop-D strums.

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