The Collings Forum

Virtuoso here as well.

Their service is aces. And congrats on the guitar!

Fantastic! I'm anxious to play one of these some day. A video would hold me over for awhile.

In changing the strings again, though to a smaller gauge, I opted to make the bend with the ball end string slot/grove placed against the bridge pin (as I have always done on previous guitars). Again, the buzzing is gone, but I changed two variables, and I'm not convinced that the ball end wasn't t...

The Sweetened Acoustic setting on the Peterson tuners (accurate to 1/10 cent) accomplish this too. It's been awhile since I saw Peterson's "sweetened" temperaments but I remember them being only a couple of cents sharp/flat; not anywhere near JT's tuning. That said, my ears do tend to pre...

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Great info. Thanks for doing that research!

I'm not entirely sure but it's a good question. I don't sense a big change when I back off the volume so I guess I've just assumed that this was being compensated for in the tone pots. That's based on zero scientific evidence. If not, yes, it's a relatively simple installation if you've used a solde...

I don't experience the buzz but it still feels bridge pin and/or string ball end related to me.

I think we've seen enough here.