The Collings Forum

I use a soft case from Blue Heron Cases < www.blueheroncases.com > great people, great cases. I also have a Mooradian gig bag < www.mooradian.com > also great people and great products. All made in the USA.

I have a new TKL Collings OM case; sent you a pm.
John

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 ...