Cort buffs up the Artisan single-cut bass with a non-multi-scale length and hot new finish

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Cort has introduced its Artisan single-cut bass guitar in a non-multi-scale design, and with a fresh Amber Open Pore finish.

The new 34-inch-scale A5 Plus SC sports a figured poplar burl top on a swamp ash body, five-piece maple-and-panga-panga neck and panga panga fingerboard.

There’s also a Hipshot TransTone Bridge, Hipshot Ultralite Tuners and Bartolini MK-1 pickups and preamp with three-band EQ and switchable active/passive mode.

The A5 Plus SC is offered with a case for $1,499.99.

For more information, head to Cort Guitars.

Rich is the co-author of the best-selling Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion. He is also a recording and performing musician, and a former editor of Guitar World magazine and executive editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine. He has authored several additional books, among them Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, the companion to the documentary of the same name.

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