CJ45T Follow up

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Re: CJ45T Follow up

Post: # 5866Post Georgelange
Fri Nov 11, 2022 1:15 am

I tried it out today but also compared it to other Collings models on display and I have to say that the other guitars sounded better. I think the expensive price is scaring a lot of buyers away. The cj45 was just getting any playing time I guess. This has been at my shop for quite a while as well. The Collings models I tried were used and one was 22 years old and it was a c-10 so this can make a big difference

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Re: CJ45T Follow up

Post: # 5869Post Greg Y
Fri Nov 11, 2022 5:47 am

Like other acoustic instruments. they're all individual. I was in Austin at the end of last week, and heard Joe play a CJ-45T that had just been strung up. It was very very impressive for a new instrument. A friend of mine bought the CJ-45aT that was at Folkways during Covid. It might have been the first one into Canada. It's in a quiver instrument including a D2G and a very good late 40s D-18 and it get lots of playtime and is a great sounding guitar. Certainly Bob Minner's instrument as recorded sounds terrific.

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Re: CJ45T Follow up

Post: # 5887Post Georgelange
Sun Nov 13, 2022 8:27 pm

Who knows? The shop I go to has a few nice Collings new and used, so there is lots of competition. They have a really nice 2000 c-10 cutaway that is amazing. It has had quite a while to age like a fine wine. I find the older Collings sound amazing. I can image that the cj45t would do the same thing after 20 years of being played

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Re: CJ45T Follow up

Post: # 6202Post DenverSteve
Wed May 03, 2023 4:22 am

Old thread but I just did a search and it popped up.
I've owned several Collings and played many more, I also mainly buy boutique, small-shop custom builds - and for me and the two CJ45 Ts I've played (one Sitka/one Adirondack) are the two finest Collings I've played. They are also among the best guitars, period, I've played. I passed on the first CJ45 T (Sitka) I played this March while on mini-tour through the SW. I would have purchased it on the spot (Black Mountain Guitars Cave Creek, AZ) but it is a bit overpriced. Once I got home I got my hands on a mint (almost unplayed) CJ45A T - that I couldn't pass on. I've owned most of the top-end Martins, Lowdens, McPhersons, several customs..... and when I've stated previously that one, or more, of my guitars were "cannons", I had not experienced the volume that would come out of the CJ45. The neck is like a bat but is surprisingly comfortable and playable. At 4lbs 3ozs it's a feather of a dread and more articulate than my OM1, OM2 (sold), D1, D1 T (sold). I thought Collings had climaxed when they built my D1 Custom Torrefied but the CJ45 AT can do it all. I don't know what production was on these but I have never seen one for sale locally and only a few nationwide, when I do, they hold their value better than any other Collings I've experienced. Of course along with the tone, volume, sustain, growl...comes the Collings manufacturing quality and their exquisite burt finishes.
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