White Cloud

Since 1997 controversy has surrounded Korean factories of Cort and Cor-Tek due to its alleged mistreatment of factory workers. Grievances include the closing of its Daejon factory with no advance warning on April 9, 2007, mass redundancies of all staff from its Incheon plant on April 12, 2007, and the firing and mistreatment of union officials and members.On July 12, 2007 a Cort worker set himself on fire in protest, and on October 15, 2008 workers conducted a 30-day hunger strike and sit-in occupation on a 40-meter electricity tower. Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello and System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian - both partners in the Axis Of Justice - joined representatives of the Cort workers in a protest concert against Cort and Cor-tek on January 13, 2010 at the Nanum Cultural Center in Los Angeles. Morello said "I fully support the Korean workers' demands for justice in the workplace. All American guitar manufacturers and the people that play them should hold Cort accountable for the awful way they have treated their workers."This controversy went through various legal stages in Korea from 2007 through 2012. Ultimately, Cort received favorable decisions from the Supreme Court in Korea that ended any further liability on Cort's part to the terminated employees. The court recognized that the closure of the plant in 2008 and subsequent layoff were justified.

Very good mass produced instruments at a fantastic price point ... but I personally still find it hard to get over Corts highly questionable treatment of their employees a few years ago.

Great basses indeed ...the necks are super skinny and do require regular truss adjustments.

Great basses. If it's G&L then it's good.

Thin fretwire on mine too!

Stunner. ACGs are built to perfection and sound immense! Congrats!

I owned a Jaydee Supernatural (2 x pickups MK lookalike) back in the 80's. Sadly, it didn't go well as the neck quickly developed a terminal back-bow of epic proportions. This was apparently due to a rogue batch of mahogany... I would however be unwilling to detract from the brand just because of my bad luck. These things can happen to any bass. I've always considered Jaydee basses amongst the most beautiful looking instruments.

No.

The recent documentary only reiterated what has been said many times before, the unseen but obvious. Hence, it wouldn't meaningfully impact in any way upon my opinion on all of this. I wouldn't play Jackson covers before and wouldn't play them now. It's that simple for me.

The Ibanez SR range are decent factory produced instruments... but their 80's predecessors (musician etc) were much nicer imo. The headstock was much nicer too.

Very, very nice basses. Congrats!

Of course. You are quite right, there is no absolute right or wrong. All things are subjective. I had a MM Stingray back in the 80s that was just THE BOMB... recorded like a dream, spat fire live. For the life of me I cannot remember what happened to it ...

I think that the MM Stingrays are the best 'plug in and play' basses for an instant, great sound. This goes for live and studio environments. Leo almost got it right with the P and J - he then nailed it with MM and G&L imo.

I find it a tad ironic, but active basses do take more effort live. For me, I think it's well worth it though.

Sincere condolences to Colins family ... have a good gig in the sky Colin!

Get it done yourself... at their cost. Fender can afford it. I had a Lakland Skyline neck issue - the neck developed an inch long deep crack behind the third fret. Within two weeks I had the new neck ... and they footed the bill for a local luthier to fit it and cut the nut. All without a hint of push back or any quibbles on their part. Big shout out to Lakland here!

I've been told that such was the sudden dramatic demand for these instruments at the time (Mark Kings fault!) that production escalated rapidly and new staff were taken on. For the same reason larger quantities of materials were required toot-sweet. A classic case of becoming a victim of your own success. I was mightily whizzed off at the time, but over a period of thirty years or so, I am admitedly beginning to get over it!

This is all a bit of a downer for the OP, I hope Fender get their finger out and sort this matter to his satisfaction. There's nothing worse than a nice instrument developing a neck failure. I bought an expensive Jaydee Supernatural brand new back in the 80's in a vain bid to become Mark King - a few months later the neck had developed the sort of extreme and irreparable back bow that would have made Robin Hood proud! Apparantly JD had purchased a batch of 'rogue' Mahogany (why build instruments from it then? ... just saying!) I have a Fender Flea. Thankfully the neck is perfect, has only required a gentle tweak ... and adjusted perfectly.

Totally agree. In fact, I love the entire Swiss choir album.

Well, at risk of being controversial around these here parts, my ACG makes my old Fender Jazz bass (which I was previously madly in love with) feel like an old plank of wood with old chrome bits screwed together...

Chris Squires Swiss choir.. a festive collection of classics in a prog style. It also features Mr Hackett on guitar! Awesome!