I love the Collings I-35 LC and this one is the finest I've played to date ... perfectly aged by Collings with a worn finish and beautiful checking, but no dings or damage. Aged gold hardware, Bigsby tremolo and to top it off, a set of ThroBak SLE 101 pickups to complete the vintage tone. [...]
Here’s a new beautiful Collings CJ-35, with a sunburst finish. Piano-like tone is perhaps an overused term but it definitely applies here … deep bass that you can feel, sparkling highs, superb guitar. Has Collings’ new lightweight case. I’ll let Collings describe it: The pre-war era of American flattop guitar making has come to be [...]
Here is a used left-handed Waterloo by Collings WL-12. The guitar is in excellent condition structurally, but has some cosmetic wear and tear. Most significantly, there is a pretty good ding above the pickguard, a scratch on the upper bout, an indentation in the neck at the heel (not something you would feel or have [...]
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 [...]
If there’s a better couch guitar than a Collings 0, I haven’t come across it. With Collings’ typical terrific projection and great volume, this guitar will amaze you with its voice. Beautiful build, a gorgeous style 2 sunburst, short scale, customized with a 1 3/4 nut, pre-war scalloped bracing, a modified V neck, ebony fretboard [...]
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 Colling’s venerable 290 with the classic vintage TV yellow finish with tortoise pickguard and truss rod cover. This is a dual cutaway example with a single Lollar P-90 and Collings’ wraparound tailpiece. 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 [...]
Here is a left-handed Waterloo by Collings WL-14, X-braced, black finish, with the optional "moderate" neck carve -- which is still a fairly beefy neck. Collings quality with minimalist aesthetics, harkening back to vintage tone of the original Kalamazoo guitars. The WL-14 is the flagship model of the Waterloo guitar line and the inspiration that started [...]
I've been waiting for these guitars to start arriving, and it was worth it. Here's a new Collings 360 LT M guitar in a special order sonic blue finish, alder body, curly maple neck, tortoise pickguard, Lollar P90s and the outstanding Mastery offset vibrato and bridge. As Collings says: "Our versatile 360 offset body shape has [...]
Collings' OM2H has long been a favorite of mine; herringbone trim and a gorgeous set of east Indian rosewood. Responsive, great projection and the usual impeccable Collings build. I did this one with a 1 3/4 nut. For 2017 they've added Collings coveted lightweight custom case to the standard OM2H. I'll let Collings describe it: OM' stands for "Orchestra Model," but 80 years after this body shape was first [...]