From Collings Guitars

 Our Traditional series instruments (T) offer a slightly looser, more “broken in” feel and tone, featuring a rounder high end and fuller low midrange, along with our Traditional aesthetic appointments, such as gold MOP inlays and custom wood purflings and rosette.  Traditional models also feature an ultra-thin nitrocellulose lacquer body finish, no tongue brace, and a unique neck construction designed to complement the looser feel and voicing, along with our Traditional neck carve.  Due to the vintage-inspired vision for these guitars, Traditional instruments are offered with limited custom options.

The square-shouldered 14-fret dreadnought is the most popular steel-string acoustic guitar body shape in the world. While Collings is far from the only company to build them, we bring a new tonal clarity to the depth and warmth usually associated with such a large, deep-bodied instrument. Although its bass response makes the dreadnought ideal for vocal accompaniment, Collings versions are also often employed by bluegrass flatpickers who must compete with inherently louder instruments, such as banjos and fiddles.

Top: Adirondack spruce

 

Back & Sides: Honduran mahogany

 

Neck: Honduran mahogany

 

Body Binding: Tortoise with b/w/b/w top purfling

 

Fingerboard Binding: None

 

Peghead Binding: None

 

BridgeEbony belly-style with 2 3/16" spacing

 

Fingerboard: Ebony with MOP long dots

 

Fingerboard Radius: 14" - 26" compound

 

Bridge Pins/End Pin: Ebony with MOP dot

 

Nut: Bone, 1 11/16"

 

Saddle: Bone, drop-in

 

Neck Profile: Modified V

 

Peghead Profile: Square

 

Neck Joint: Mortise & tenon hybrid

 

Truss Rod: Fully adjustable

 

Frets: Medium 18% nickel-silver

 

Peghead Veneer: Ebony with MOP Collings logo

 

Tuners: Nickel Waverly

 

Backstrip: 1-style (Walnut)

 

Rosette: b/w Purfling

 

Scale Length: 25 1/2"

 

Brace Material: Sitka spruce

 

Brace Pattern: Pre-war scalloped X-brace

 

Body Finish: High gloss nitrocellulose lacquer

 

Neck Finish: High gloss polyester resin

 

Pickguard: Tortoise

 

Strings: D'Addario EJ-17 (.013"- .056")

 

Case: Deluxe hardshell case

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