The Collings Forum

To the OP: what do you hear as the difference? As far as Collings guitars go, I think Bruce is a little less "mystic" about a lot of this stuff than some other luthiers. For example, Dana Bourgeois has said that bearclaw in Adirondack is extremely rare, and so you know that when he finds a...

All Collings guitars have the same mortise and tenon hybrid neck joint. Instead of being a straight mortise/tenon, it is cut in a tapered triangle (from a few feet away you might think it was a dovetail). This triangle-shaped tenon has threaded neck bolts that are attached through the heel block, an...