Hi. I do hope you dont mind me giving you some balance to this? Let me make it 100% clear. I sell Cort guitars and I have promoted them for 29 years. It may be hard to believe but I dont care if I EVER sell another - It really isnt important to me - but its so important I do give you some balance. Let ne give you an example. Tanglewood Guitars. I was the biggest dealer in the UK for over 10 years for Tanglewood. Cut a long story short - they were ALL made by Cort and in fact it was CORT manufacturing that created the Tanglewood guitar legacy. When Tanglewood stopped making their guitars by Cort - the quality dropped massively and the prices went up - and I stopped selling them. I was so depressed by the industry - I closed my business down at the time - but thats another story!! Now.... Tangewood are currently made by A.N. Other factory and its THESE factories (not Cort!) that end users who have a moral view on life should be questioning brands about - not Cort. ALL the problems that ocured - coincidentally occured as Cort was moving their production to China. No doubt it must have been awful for the employees - and no doubt they have few rights in China to complain etc. but their plight was more to do with them losing their jobs - than the conditions and I believe the conditions were used to get profile / stab the knife in for Cort moving country. Cort - If you ask anyone involved - are a family run company - doint their best like all companies to treat their employees as well as they can . You simply cannot build guitars of the quality that Cort do if the employees are unhappy - overworked etc. Just look at GIBSON!!!!! Thats why their guitars are so poor. Happy workers is a big part of quality in production - I was invited and was planning to visit them personally but sadly I couldnt go. I even had a letter from the top guy at Cort explaining things many years ago when it happened. Like I say - I was invited to go and visit but never did. However - since this time - I have experienced so many examples - many photos of working conditions that are totally appauling. Incredibly unsafe working conditions - carcinogens from unprotected spray booths - exposed and unprotected saws / cutting machines. I would be sued to the extreme if I showed you them. Some of the industrys biggest brands use factories that should be not used and if the end users care - they should ask more questions - but people dont - just like people dont ask about the kids who are dying in tin mines so we can have Iphones. tts so important to to view this with perspective - and the reality is the world is SH&T - but I struggle to believe that Cort is a worst offender by a long way - if you really care about human rights.
@@RichardsGuitarshop Thanks for the comment. Your comment really adds value information to the topic of this video about Cort Guitars. Thanks again Solomon.
the move was to indonesia,not china.cort brought a load of people to korea from indonesia,to be taught how to make guitars by the korean workers.after training,they fired the korean workers,who thought their jobs were safe,and moved their entire operation to indonesia
Cort International builds for so many companies. Few folks realize that other than a very very tiny custom shop Ibanez doesn't even own any factory. Hoshino Gakki owns the name and contracts Ibanez guitars to be built by OEM manufacturers. Cort builds many Ibanez guitars. Fender Squier lines are often built by Cort. Etc...etc... Those Dillions and ESP ltds and some Mitchells and many Harley Bentons are built by Inyen Vina in Vietnam. ESP/ltd does not own a factory in Vietnam. Heck Gibson tries to fool us into believing they OWN a factory in China. Lol...they have clever lawyers but in-fact if you read closely you read ," Gibson opened a new factory in China" I can " open" a new restaurant without actually owning the real estate. Tricky. Quingdoa is NOT owned by Gibson. A quick Google tells us that no foreign entity can own land in China, excepting a single family residence and only with meeting a lot of requirements. Before PRS contracted SE series axes to Cort, they contracted them to Samick International to be built in Korea. The whole biz is a bit deceitful. When a guitar company says " our factory" they rarely mean that they own the land or buildings. They can own some of the machines and materials. 40+ years in the biz and at some time I have been an authorized repair center for numerous brands, SLM, C. Bruno, Hoshino G. etc. Very few actually own their own factory.
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Hi. I do hope you dont mind me giving you some balance to this? Let me make it 100% clear. I sell Cort guitars and I have promoted them for 29 years. It may be hard to believe but I dont care if I EVER sell another - It really isnt important to me - but its so important I do give you some balance.
Let ne give you an example. Tanglewood Guitars. I was the biggest dealer in the UK for over 10 years for Tanglewood. Cut a long story short - they were ALL made by Cort and in fact it was CORT manufacturing that created the Tanglewood guitar legacy.
When Tanglewood stopped making their guitars by Cort - the quality dropped massively and the prices went up - and I stopped selling them.
I was so depressed by the industry - I closed my business down at the time - but thats another story!!
Now.... Tangewood are currently made by A.N. Other factory and its THESE factories (not Cort!) that end users who have a moral view on life should be questioning brands about - not Cort.
ALL the problems that ocured - coincidentally occured as Cort was moving their production to China. No doubt it must have been awful for the employees - and no doubt they have few rights in China to complain etc. but their plight was more to do with them losing their jobs - than the conditions and I believe the conditions were used to get profile / stab the knife in for Cort moving country.
Cort - If you ask anyone involved - are a family run company - doint their best like all companies to treat their employees as well as they can . You simply cannot build guitars of the quality that Cort do if the employees are unhappy - overworked etc. Just look at GIBSON!!!!! Thats why their guitars are so poor.
Happy workers is a big part of quality in production - I was invited and was planning to visit them personally but sadly I couldnt go. I even had a letter from the top guy at Cort explaining things many years ago when it happened.
Like I say - I was invited to go and visit but never did.
However - since this time - I have experienced so many examples - many photos of working conditions that are totally appauling. Incredibly unsafe working conditions - carcinogens from unprotected spray booths - exposed and unprotected saws / cutting machines. I would be sued to the extreme if I showed you them.
Some of the industrys biggest brands use factories that should be not used and if the end users care - they should ask more questions - but people dont - just like people dont ask about the kids who are dying in tin mines so we can have Iphones.
tts so important to to view this with perspective - and the reality is the world is SH&T - but I struggle to believe that Cort is a worst offender by a long way - if you really care about human rights.
@@RichardsGuitarshop Thanks for the comment. Your comment really adds value information to the topic of this video about Cort Guitars. Thanks again Solomon.
the move was to indonesia,not china.cort brought a load of people to korea from indonesia,to be taught how to make guitars by the korean workers.after training,they fired the korean workers,who thought their jobs were safe,and moved their entire operation to indonesia
Cort International builds for so many companies.
Few folks realize that other than a very very tiny custom shop Ibanez doesn't even own any factory. Hoshino Gakki owns the name and contracts Ibanez guitars to be built by OEM manufacturers.
Cort builds many Ibanez guitars.
Fender Squier lines are often built by Cort.
Etc...etc...
Those Dillions and ESP ltds and some Mitchells and many Harley Bentons are built by Inyen Vina in Vietnam. ESP/ltd does not own a factory in Vietnam.
Heck Gibson tries to fool us into believing they OWN a factory in China.
Lol...they have clever lawyers but in-fact if you read closely you read ," Gibson opened a new factory in China"
I can " open" a new restaurant without actually owning the real estate. Tricky.
Quingdoa is NOT owned by Gibson.
A quick Google tells us that no foreign entity can own land in China, excepting a single family residence and only with meeting a lot of requirements.
Before PRS contracted SE series axes to Cort, they contracted them to Samick International to be built in Korea.
The whole biz is a bit deceitful.
When a guitar company says " our factory" they rarely mean that they own the land or buildings. They can own some of the machines and materials.
40+ years in the biz and at some time I have been an authorized repair center for numerous brands, SLM, C. Bruno, Hoshino G. etc. Very few actually own their own factory.
Thanks for the comment.
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