*** ON HOLD *** You can't help but smile when you're playing a parlor, and this is Collings' take on one, in a 2015 build that was done with the best of everything, starting with the top-of-the-line 3 designation. Sporting a German spruce top, with figured mahogany back and sides, and a 1 3/4 nut, [...]
Here's a new Collings OM1 T Julian Lage signature model, hide glue, ebony bridge and fingerboard, bone saddle, relic Waverly tunes with vintage oval buttons, and customized with an Adirondack top. I'll let Collings describe it: When Bill Collings first met the brilliant young jazz musician Julian Lage, in 2014, the two began a series [...]
Here's a gorgeous new Collings CL with a great chevron flame maple top, and customized with ThroBak MXV pickups. The Collings CL (City Limits) is crafted with the finest seasoned maple and Honduran mahogany and built for tone. Lightweight, resonant mahogany combined with a carefully hand-set mortise and tenon neck joint bring tonal complexity and [...]
Here's a mint preowned version of Colling’s venerable 290 in their 59 crimson finish,. Collings calls this guitar a modern-day tribute to the original workingman’s rock ‘n roll guitar. You’ll just call it a great guitar. Solid select mahogany body and neck, “haircut” headstock, rosewood fingerboard, long mortise and tenon neck joint with a contoured [...]
Here's Colling’s venerable 290 in their ultra cool black doghair finish, with a pearloid pickguard and headstock. Collings calls this guitar a modern-day tribute to the original workingman’s rock ‘n roll guitar. You’ll just call it a great guitar. Solid select mahogany body and neck, “haircut” headstock, rosewood fingerboard, long mortise and tenon neck joint [...]
I’ve been lucky enough to play some very fine electric guitars, but in my mind there isn’t a finer semi-hollow guitar out there than the Collings I-35. The I-35 LC uses high quality laminate construction to faithfully reproduce the vintage tone of the original Gibsons. An outstanding guitar, with figured top and back, and mahogany [...]
Here is a left-handed Waterloo by Collings WL-14, X-braced, sunburst, with the optional smaller neck carve -- which is still a good sized neck. Collings quality with minimalist aesthetics, harkening back to vintage tone of the original Kalamazoo guitars. The WL-14 “X” braced version retains tighter focus and balance across the tonal range. This guitar [...]
Here's a new Waterloo by Collings WL-12, with a black top, tigerstripe pickguard and maple back and sides. Great looking guitar. Crisp and bright but plenty of punch from the 12-fret configuration. The Waterloo by Collings WL-12, a new variation on the flagship WL-14 that brings together the elements of maple back and sides, vintage x-bracing, [...]
This lefty Collings Statesman LC was inspired by the classic sounds pioneered by players such as Chet Atkins and Eddie Cochran. The fully-hollow Statesman LC captures the vibe and tones of this iconic era with a trestle-braced maple laminate body, Bigsby B3 vibrato and TV Jones Filtertron pickups. Finished in a walnut stain. Ebony fingerboard, haircut [...]
Here's a new Collings I-30 LC in a tobacco burst. Wonderful guitars, light as feathers, with true hollow construction and trestle bracing. C shape neck profile. Same size as the venerable I-35 -- slightly smaller and more comfortable than an ES-335. They just don’t get any better. Lifetime warranty from Collings and a deluxe Ameritage [...]