The Collings Forum

thanks. i guess, most recently, their facebook posts are largely electics.

Seems like all the new or interesting stuff Collings is advertising, for quite a long time now, is heavly tilted toward electrics. The only acoustic-related news was the Hill Country announcement, which seems kind of "moot" given the EXTREMELY limited availabilty. so limited, in fact, that it's ...

you're welcome... as to the variation, perhaps... remember, something the terrific luthier michael hornick told me years and years ago..."it' organic, man!":)
where in Japan? if i may ask...

Yusuke- Konnichiwa-

if what you're talking about is fretboard "fall-off" from the body fret toward the bridge - some is not unusual, but slight if it does exist. some builders even build in a very small amount, to ensure the the fretboard end doesn't go the other way (up) causing buzzing.

sold. for some reason can't edit post, or i'd edit the title!:)

I had one of each. they were IDENTICAL. even though the original statement from Collings was that they were not! I actually fit the appropriate guitar in each - switched. Identical. there were very early numbers on the nameplates.

i normally don’t play in what Frank Ford called “the nosebleed” section. plus which, i think they are ugly, at least on the martin-based traditional designs. one exception: Schoenberg’s “soloist” OM. and also, LInda Manzer’s “Manzer" is quite nice with her cutaway. superficial, i know, but maybe ...

small demographic

especially for Collings, i'd think.

agree, Frank, with your description of the original collings sound. wish i could have articulated it like that. that is why i prefer it. there is one thing i don't like about the HC presentaion. the headstock missing the collings on the front and the stamp on the back. i can take or leave the "hand ...

good point... in Andy and Adam's TME video, they seem to indicate that. whether there actually was a plan all along to continue to approach martin PREWAR sound, with the T being a stepping stone, i don't know. Andy's playing is always so tasteful; he makes it easier for me to differentiate two ...