The Collings Forum

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 ...

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 of t...

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 f...

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 J...

Tempotantrum wrote: ↑Thu Jul 01, 2021 3:18 am ...I was wondering if in fact anyone in this group has had any problems with lacquer adhesion on your recent Collings?

No problems. Several OM1T, OM2HT, OM1Mh from 2015 to the present, with no finish issues whatsoever.

...I actually think the baked tops on the traditional series guitars make the guitar sound less warm, especially for strumming and rhythm playing. Just goes to show you that personal preference is the key to a happy guitar choice. My favorite Collings is an OM1T with baked Sitka top; I've owned sev...