The Collings Forum

i've only seen it reported/photographed once - it was a dealer that didn't know that collings did poly finish on standard-model necks, not nitro. it was a spot on the neck that had lifted. probably was dinged. this was at the interface of the fingerboard and the mahogany.... so could have been initi...

2016 case sold, 2006 case available.

yep

in the end, wouldn't the guitar have to be the same guitar:) i mean, variations in wood, tolerances etc... therefore, impossible:) (i would have to guess)

i can never tell the difference, tone-wise. or at least i wouldn't know it even if i heard it. regarding the experts, for every "no less an authority than..." there's likely a "no less an authority than..." who has found the opposite. what Richard Feynman called, "the tyrann...

As one of the resident chemists here

the expert i was referring to earlier in the thread!:)

yep!

"May I ask why you sold it?" i didn't find it sounding any different than a D1A "regular." it was remarkably similar, in fact, in contrast to my experience with other T-to-standard comparisons. still great, mind you, but nothing special to me. it was previously-owned, and that fo...

i had one of those - sold it almost immediately.

although fish glue - i assume from Norland - has loads of characteristics similar to hot-hide glue, which are preferable to the glues predominately used in instrument making, it has a few disadvantages: number one is it's stability relative to hot-hide glue in high-humidity environments. for me, tha...