He still plays and records professionally. We are a "small company' dedicated to making great strings with "big tone" and we believe in proudly building only hand-crafted strings in small batches.Ĭurt has over 50-years of history with the guitar and nearly 40-years experience in the string industry. We are also the world's leader in providing our customers custom gauged guitar and bass string sets with personalized labels. Our factory is located in Cortez, Colorado USA and we build over 700 boutique, premium quality single strings and upwards of 300 packaged sets for acoustic, electric and classical guitar, acoustic and electric bass guitar, mandolin, banjo, bajo sexto and quinto, plus other instruments. Real Strings! Real Tone! Real Players!(TM) That's what we have been doing since 2004! In 1968, the Cortez and most other Kalamazoo-made flattop acoustic guitars were redesigned with a traditional "belly-down" bridge.Thank you for visiting Curt Mangan Strings. Plastic bridges were discontinued in 1966 and replaced with a traditional Gibson-style "belly-up" bridge, retaining an adjustable saddle, now made of rosewood. Initially introduced with a rectangular bridge, the rosewood bridge was replaced by an injection-molded plastic bridge with an adjustable ceramic saddle in 1962. Like other Kalamazoo-made flattop acoustic guitars from both Gibson and Epiphone, the Cortez's bridge was changed several times. In 1962, the "hourglass" headstock was introduced, eventually being used on most other Epiphone guitars. In the early 1960s, with brass badge supplies running low, the Epiphone logo was silkscreened on the headstock. Upon introduction, it featured the "Kalamazoo" headstock inherited from Philadelphia-produced necks acquired by Gibson, branded with a brass "bikini" badge originally intended for upright bass tailpieces. Like other Kalamazoo-era Epiphone guitar, it saw several minor redesigns during its production. It featured mahogany back and sides with a spruce top. Model FT-45N, indicating a natural finish, was equivalent to the Gibson LG-3 or Gibson B-25N. It was equivalent to the Gibson LG-2 until late 1962, when that model was replaced by the Gibson B-25 with some specification changes.
Introduced in 1958 it was produced through 1969, when regular Epiphone production in the United States ended. The Epiphone FT-45 Cortez is a concert-sized acoustic guitar.
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