The Collings Forum

eeeeasy now, hokie. nobody, but nobody is stirring any pots on this board, at least in this incarnation. we don't want any drama.

great stuff. thanks.

agreed. both points.

this consolidated, to the best of my ability and understanding, for 3 longtime different well-known businesses: essentially it makes it harder and harder to get people into the store, AND if they want to compete ON reverb, then that means another 3% (i think it is now) someone has to pay - dealer or...

but with talk about them looking to 3rd parties i definitely should have emphasized that that was just one phone call, and maybe it was just one of the many options they were looking at going forward at that time, another option being to stay totally in-house. bottom line, to me, i assume that stev...

agree about the turn the thread i started on NAMM turning negative. wasn't the plan. :( i agree with the folks in this thread that are 100%-positive about the future, most recently Eric Jones. well-supported. the Collings four namm-announcement emails were just underwhelming (to me) based on past ye...

i don't know. steve called me once, when they were looking at ways for some sort of outside participation. i suspect nothing happened, or we would have heard something. it WAS before Bill's diagnosis was common knowledge, at least to me and on this board.

i do know that, even before Bill passed (and i THINK even before diagnosed - i can't remember now), that feelers were out for additional "sources," as the next step. that's all well and good. the only worry i ever had was how much control any additional "source" may demand, and h...

Collings has recently gone back on their mission to require the traditional case with every model. i don't know if it was the MISSION originally to supply the Collings cases with the "non-Traditionals," if i remember correctly what Steve told me a few years ago. but, it did turn into the ...

"but that excitement that Bill cultivated and delivered-" even if he was just working on cars at the time, somehow there was that excitement. fortunately, thinking just about Bruce, say, they've go some wonderful talent, with deep understanding and skill, capable of solid innovation and vi...