Why so little discussion on the City Limits models?!
Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2019 12:18 am
I'm looking hard at one and came to get educated.
Free flow Collings forum discussions about all things Collings guitars etc. This is an unofficial Collings forum.
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Just general opinions on what they liked/disliked on them. Lollars, ThroBak's, etc.? Although it's personal, dots, parallelograms, …? If you look on Reverb, the $ varies from 3-6K! Has to be some reason, right?
That was one of my opinions posted to the old forum. I desperately wanted to like the sound of my CL, because I wanted it to be a Les Paul that played like a Collings, but I couldn't even achieve that. I had an early model, with whichever Lollars came in those early models, and I tried another brand (can't remember the name but it was a very solid boutique PAF-type manufacturer) and although that was slightly better it was still polite. And by that I mean that the sound was clean and fundamental (not the degree of overtones and chaos I expect from a LP). That was ok for clean tones, but as soon as I started pushing dirt onto the CL that chaotic humbucker sound never arrived. It was still very refined. The difference was easy to spot next to an actual Les Paul.
As mentioned above, I wanted "the Collings of Les Pauls," which is to hope for the playability and build quality of a Collings with the sound of a Les Paul. I have, and have had, several Les Pauls, and nearly all of them have/had trouble staying in tune and are generally a bit lacking in terms of component integrity. I've upgraded the electronics (tone & volume pots and capacitor) in most of them, swapped in a bone nut, upgraded the bridge, with a couple of other minor tweaks, and although these things help, a Collings CL is still easier to play. It seems natural, given what I like and dislike about each, to want the best of both worlds.deamhanfola wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2019 5:42 pm I don't understand why people who want Les Pauls don't just buy Les Pauls, especially given Collings's well-earned reputation for their own amazing sound, regardless of instrument/instrument style. Horses for courses.)