The Collings Forum

maplebaby wrote: ↑Wed Apr 15, 2020 11:39 am Calton Cases in Seafood Green..Honda optional.

That is so cool!

Not much action around here any more. A shame, really. This place was jumping back in '12 but it was a different world in those days - Oregon and Texas were both in the same country, then. Well, if anyone wants to make me an offer that I can't refuse.... something 'north' of $4000. My research has s...

Well, I'm pretty confident that this is the only 290 Collings made in Candy Apple Tangerine. There might be some high-end Les Pauls with that finish but I've never seen any. I do recall a 360 from around the same time (2012).

From: Repairs <repairs@collingsguitars.com> Date: Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 7:32 AM Subject: RE: 290 color question To: xxxx xxxxx <xxxxxx@gmail.com> Nice to hear from you xxxx, The custom color we refinished your 290 with is Candy Apple Tangerine, which is a finish we no longer offer. We currently offer...

Nobody, eh? Drag. Well, guess no one would know this either but are there any 12-string players that know Ralph Towner's weird turnings? What I've read is that the top three strings are a fourth lower and the bottom three strings are tuned a fifth higher. On top of that, he drops the low E to D... r...

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Any owners of Collings 12 strings here? I'm curious about what players think of them.

The short scale looks OK to me but the small body may be a bit much. I'm not that big a dude, 6'2" but it looks kind of small on this guy...

So difficult for me to show the metalic aspect of the finish - it's very fine grained. More so than a LP Gold Top. I need a better camera but it's the trick lighting that I really lack. The pick guard and other parts still have their protective plastic sheeting attached.

Bill's-Signature.jpg On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Mark Althans <repairs@collingsguitars.com> wrote: Hi XXXX, Your candy apple tangerine 290 is almost complete! All of the finish work is done, and it is now in our setup room waiting to have all of it's hardware and electronics reinstalled. This i...

I don't think that there is another 290 in this color, although I seem to recall that they did paint at least one 360 with the Candy finish. I did some due diligence and found a candy-apple metallic option on the Collings website. I was told back in the day that they were giving up on that process,...

Love that dark red color - nice one!