The Collings Forum

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Frank

Sitka is a great wood. The key with all woods is the tonal quality. There is a ton of sitka out there and most of it is good. There is some out there though that is superior. Not to bring up another guitar brand but Martin uses different grades of sitka on their guitars from their entry level all of...

Congrats on your Collings acoustic guitar. It is a fine one! Materials, design, build, and tuning are all factors that will affect the voice and playability of an acoustic guitar. Collings of course is one of the premier builders so their combos are near the top of the food chain. Assuming great woo...

Two hundred and fifty people have viewed your post and not a single comment. That just is astonishing to me. The JL model is something special in the Collings OM line. It is articulate and pure. It is easy to play even for those of us that prefer a nut width a pinch wider. Congratulations on a fine ...

Happy New Year!

Get any good presents over the holiday? Have any new ones eyed or ordered for the new year?

The video uses too much processing. A clean recording would show the somewhat subtle differences though. The laminate damps just a little of certain frequencies (mostly highs). This give a smoother, darker sound than the solid version. Laminate gives a slightly more rounder sound and a little less s...

Dilution of content into too many places. When people come to the site, they may only want to talk about Collings guitars or buy and sell. Having so many categories means many posts are never seen so they are not responded to. You can see by the number of views in each sub forum how many people are ...

The intended purpose I think is perhaps the opposite of how the line came to be. Collings guitars have the reputation of being top quality for looks, finish, sound, playability. They are premier instruments. The history of the kind of guitar that inspired the Waterloo line comes from a different lin...

I remember the year that Collings had the first one at the winter NAMM. It was not released yet. Bill played that thing endlessly for multiple days there. We were talking, he was playing. I can still see his face and the joy and pride that he had with the Waterloo line. Great instrument for its inte...

The deadness of the site may in fact be partially my fault. I had tried to create sub forums for specific instruments and other discussions. It could be that it is too much clicking for most that want to stay in their own interest area. Perhaps it was a tactical error for me to split so many things....