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Cast me adrift never to return...

Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 9:46 pm
by Fran
the world is better rid of me!!
Sorry guys, i played one of these today and i am ashamed to say it was fucking awesome.
Its a Cort 'Hiram Bullock' signature Stratocaster. Swamp Ash body, birds eye mapel neck, aged hardware, Wilkinson Trem, Mighty Mites, Sperzels... sounds and plays great. The guy in the shop is sponsored by Cort and gets their guitars cheap, i'm being lured in.

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Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 10:15 pm
by robert(original)
oh no!
whatever floats yr boat tho.

Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 10:21 pm
by Thom
I used to have a Cort - can't quit remember the model - but was like a PRS copy...they are good guitars. My bass is a Cort too and I like that a lot.

Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 10:21 pm
by tribi9
Personally I don't like that guitar but It's ok to like guitars that other people may think are uncool. its about what you like, not what the masses like.

Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 10:30 pm
by euan
If Fran says a guitar is cool it is cool.

Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 10:35 pm
by benecol
It look like a Mexican themed restaurant.

Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 10:36 pm
by euan
Actually remove the burntess and it is cooler. Should have bought a Graf Deluxe and told me how they rock out.

Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 10:37 pm
by tribi9
benecol wrote:It look like a Mexican themed restaurant.
:?:

Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 10:42 pm
by Fran
benecol wrote:It look like a Mexican themed restaurant.
Lol. The guy in the shop said i always get drawn to the rustic or old looking guitars.
Srsly though, i know the name is gay but it played like a £500+ guitar and the spec is very high for the price. Its a players guitar, not one for the DS-1 brigade. :lol:

Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 10:42 pm
by benecol
I meant that scorched timber has something of the "saloon doors" about it.

Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 10:44 pm
by Fran
benecol wrote:I meant that scorched timber has something of the "saloon doors" about it.
To be honest i got that pic off ebay. The one in the shop was not as erm.. burnt looking as that one.

Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 10:49 pm
by benecol
You'll be tucking your jeans into your cowboy boots in no time.

Does look like it could be OK, mind, although I'm not keen on the look of humbuckers in a stra, especially covered humbuckerst. Or humbuckers in general.

Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 10:49 pm
by Tex-czech
tribi9 wrote:
benecol wrote:It look like a Mexican themed restaurant.
:?:
haha I see it completely. I played an old Cort neck thru strat copy in a faded pearl. It had a 3x3 tuner/headstock. very playable with jumbo fret and all in all nice.

Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 10:58 pm
by tribi9
Tex-czech wrote:
tribi9 wrote:
benecol wrote:It look like a Mexican themed restaurant.
:?:
haha I see it completely. I played an old Cort neck thru strat copy in a faded pearl. It had a 3x3 tuner/headstock. very playable with jumbo fret and all in all nice.
Will just have to give to the dude in the middle.....

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Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 10:58 pm
by Fran
benecol wrote:You'll be tucking your jeans into your cowboy boots in no time.

Does look like it could be OK, mind, although I'm not keen on the look of humbuckers in a stra, especially covered humbuckerst. Or humbuckers in general.
No chance. I hat cowboys and John Wayne was a fag.

Out of interest, heres Matt the guy Cort sponsor, he's one of my old pals, like Aen...

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Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 11:07 pm
by Tex-czech
Fran wrote:
benecol wrote:You'll be tucking your jeans into your cowboy boots in no time.

Does look like it could be OK, mind, although I'm not keen on the look of humbuckers in a stra, especially covered humbuckerst. Or humbuckers in general.
No chance. I hat cowboys and John Wayne was a fag.

Non traditional cowboys are cool and Clint Eastwood is boss. In any case they're guitars are always cool. long live teh twang.

Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 11:10 pm
by Bacchus
Not too sure about the shape, but apart from that, the only thiing that's not agreeable is the name on the headstock, and that hardly matters, so get in there.

Although, you ought to be horrendously fat before buying this guitar.

Hiram Bullock:
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 11:39 pm
by Fran
BacchusPaul wrote:Although, you ought to be horrendously fat before buying this guitar.
Dude... i'm getting there. If i carry on with the Currys and wine....

Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 11:43 pm
by ultratwin
Poor Hiram. The guy can barely walk now.

It was sad to see him go from Chicago Bluesy wailer to losing his everything over supporting a drug habit, and his number one modified 60s H-S-H sunburst Strat the Cort setup was designed after even ended up in the hands of an aging Korean rocker(!). When Hiram was here May last year Moollon's Mr. Ji built a guitar for him that was just like his old Strat, and be fore we handed it to him we took him out to Korean BBQ to talk and spent 2 hours chatting about the music industry and stuff. Jovial, hums R&B riffs to himself when there's dead air, had some really funny Jaco stories I never though I'd hear, and he said he spends some of his time tracking vocals for jingles and playing about in smaller gigs.

Never been hot for the Cort Strat shape, but I'm sure it has got the tonez hidden in thee somewhere. Enjoy, Fran!

Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 12:48 pm
by turtle
I think he ate that very strat after the show.