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Anyone have any experience with Collings' figured mahogany?


I've owned Collings OMs with plain mahogany and figured mahogany; they're all great guitars, but I couldn't detect a significant difference in their voices, other than the normal individual variation one would expect to find between ...

Hi John,

It's hard to tell without a photo, but if you're measuring action height from the bottom of the 6th string to the top of the 12th fret and you're reading 3/16", that's about double what most folks would call a normal action. It's not normal for a Collings Traditional model: factory spec ...

I can recommend Dana Sutcliffe as a Delaware luthier; he's done superb setup work on several Collings for me.

Dana Sutcliffe
2311 Sconset St, Suite 2B
Wilmington, DE 18710
302-521-4215
danadsrinc <at> aol <dot> com

Tell him I sent you.

John

The classic models? Great, especially a wonderful OM1Mh . The T models? Great, especially a wonderful OM1T . Baked? I refer baked Sitka to raw Sitka . Neck profiles? VN works great for me, and a custom VN that's 0.015" deeper at the first fret is even better . And any other attributes. They've still ...

Hi Dave,
By any chance is your Collings TKL OM case still available?
Thanks,
John Frink
Newark, DE

After comparing a dozen OMs, three builders, Sitka and Adirondack, baked and unbaked, I prefer baked. Just my two cents.

Here’s my two cents: I have guitars in cases made by Collings, Collings-branded TKL, Ameritage, Canadian Calton, Texas Calton, Hiscox, Hoffee, and Accord. I keep digital temperature and relative humidity sensors in all of them, and in the house they all control temperature and humidity equally well ...

I was wondering what difference folks have experienced between the two designs? Is it a significant difference?
Thanks

I've owned OM1Ts with both neck support designs, and I couldn't hear a difference that was distinguishable from the ordinary minor differences in voice between any two guitars ...

Here's what the Collings website says -

"For small bodied guitars (Baby, OM*, 0, 00, 000, C10), we use:
J16s - light gauge (.012, .016, .024, .032, .042, .053).

For large bodied guitars (D, CJ, DS, SJ, Archtop), we use
J17s - medium gauge (.013, .017, .026, .035, .045, .056).

*An OM should be ...

I too can not tell the difference. I wonder if any of these "experts" have ever conducted a true blind test where the listener had no idea which guitar they were listening to?

Not exactly, but I can come close. In early 2020 I had an OM1T (306nn) built with a custom neck profile, and in July of ...