The Collings Forum

A short email to Collings should give the answer. They have always responded quickly to my questions.

Played a few of the acoustics yesterday. Of course too much noise to make anything like a genuine evaluation, and couldn't give a sense of the guitars--except for one. Maybe just the nature of maple guitars to cut through the drone, but the fully torrified maple C10, though the action was higher tha...

Along with the JL satin finish available on all T series guitars and the 0014 in standard and Traditional models, Collings announced a CL Deluxe electric in acid washed charcoal. (More coming, I assume, tomorrow.)

I'll be there for a few hours on Friday.

Once a year or so I use a bit of Music Nomad's The Guitar One: otherwise an occasional wipe with a clean cotton t-shirt barely damp with distilled water.

I'd never remove a label with Bill's signature--pretty much like having an autographed guitar by someone I think the most important luthier of my time. But the newer labels? To me they're just labels, and if I felt they needed to go to make the guitar look better: well they'd go.

This afternoon received an email from Collings, as I expect most others have, that the Traditional cases are now available for ordering directly from Collings. Cases available are for D, OM, CJ, 0 14-fret, 0 12-fret, Parlor, A-style mandolin, and two listed as sold out (but I imagine will be availab...

Yesterday put on the CJ35G a set of Martin (MA545) SP medium/light 92/8 phosphor bronze. These strings pretty much split the difference in size throughout the strings between lights and mediums. I wanted to see if I could get the blend of benefits of lights and mediums, and the Martin strings get me...

So Paul, with some mild paranoia I just checked on my three Collings. No phantom rattle at all anywhere with the OM1A or the CJ35G. I do hear what you're hearing with my OM2G--BUT not on the third fret with a G chord. I hear it on the low E string when vigorously plucked open, a sort of vibration ec...

Have gone back and forth the last two years with lights (EJ16s) and mediums (EJ17s) on my CJ35. I find it's not simply a choice based on ease of play, but of which tone I prefer. Most of the time I prefer the tone of the lights, particularly for accompanying vocals. It's not as rich a sound as the m...