The Collings Forum

Little bump of this thread - my first post proper, following my intro that I added today. Have a lovely Eastman E10P: mahogany, sunburst spruce top, ebony board, 12 fret, slothead, 1 13/16" nut, 2 5/16" bridge spacing. A real proper old-style blues box, sounds great, incredible value for ...

For a long time, my travel guitar was a mandolin, but I just don't play enough mando to be satisfied with that. I took my Martin 000-15S on a trip last weekend, and it did great. It's about 1/3 the price of a Collings, and I love the tone on it, but it's got too much sentimental value to me to serve...

Congrats! I've never really played a CJ other than perhaps a few minutes at the old Hill Country Guitars location in Wimberley. I hope you'll post a review when it arrives.

I've never seen one from that early in his career, so I'll defer to you all. If they're real (and I guess I don't have a reason to doubt it), it's very interesting to see them. I can see the "Bill enough" DNA, even if that slothead still is a trip. I sure wish that guy could take a decent ...

I wouldn't hesitate to call it fake if it was a later Collings, but I don't know much about the earliest period of Bill's career. Even if I did, I've seen clearer pictures of Bigfoot riding sidesaddle on the Loch Ness Monster than the pictures in that listing. Even for an expert (and ignoring that s...

As mentioned above, I'd had my eye out locally for a used DS1 or DS1A for a good long while, but recently spent my guitar savings account on a Martin D-1 Authentic 1931 (eagerly awaiting delivery Wednesday). The guitar gods being the fickle beings that they are, one of my favorite shops, Fiddler's G...

I am currently wrestling with GAS over a Martin D-1 Authentic just listed on the UMGF and the Mandolin Cafe classifieds, and probably elsewhere). I've sort of had a loose plan to eventually add a Collings DS1A to the stable. This would check all the same boxes for a 12-fret mahogany dreadnought, and...

A 12 string modeled on a stella would be pretty neat. I haven't found much in the Waterloo line to really attract my attention, but something along the lines of a depression-era 12-string would be pretty cool. I actually might start keeping an eye out for one of those. Nice picking up there, Andy, a...

I take it back, I guess they are flat-topped according to Scott at the Mandolin Cafe. He's got a post with their basic specs.

https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/thre ... -Namm-2019

Hi guys, I guess I can understand the archtop guitars but flat top mandos ? Whilst I wish Collings every success, I can't envisage these being as much of a success as the flat-top guitars have been. I hope I'm wrong. It's hard to tell from the picture, but I'm assuming that the construction is arch...