The Collings Forum

I suspect this may be the wrong forum to talk about carbon fibre. I sometimes vaguely think about getting a 12 string guitar and it occurred to me that a Rainsong could be a good choice due to needing less strength, retaining low action and staying in tune. Thoughts?

I think I need to add it was comments by members of the prior version of this forum that drew my attention to the fact the guitar was for sale at Guitar Gallery. I figured at the time that people making the comments were possibly friends of the vendor but that didn’t stop me. Anyway I wanted to say ...

I have had some other players use the Dude recently and of course they love it. I have been playing it a lot more recently and it just grows and grows on me. Sometimes I feel almost spiritual with it, which is ridiculous. It’s just an instrument. The bass strings are very effective in duets. The tre...

I own a custom D which has a label number 41 from January, 2000. I bought it from Guitargal, sight unseen, in 2013 and had it shipped here to Sydney, Australia. I also own a cutaway OM Collings I have two friends, one of whom is a fully pro blues muso, Wolf mail, and the other leads an occasional ba...