Collings Guitars
OM1 A JL SB (2020)
2020 · Listed at The Denver Folklore Center · Denver, CO
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at The Denver Folklore Center’s site.
$7,500
Last seen 6h ago on dealer site
Photos hot-linked from The Denver Folklore Center’s site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Adirondack Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Honduran Mahogany
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- Orchestra Model
- Scale length
- 25.5"
- Nut width
- 1.69"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Condition
- Preowned
- Year
- 2020
Collings Guitars
Collings Guitars come out of Austin, Texas — a shop that began on Bill Collings' kitchen table in mid-1970s Houston and grew into one of the most respected names in modern acoustic lutherie. Bill was the kind of builder who would reject a part over a tolerance most players couldn't feel, and that exactness became the Collings signature: a crisp, articulate, precise voice that records beautifully and turns up in studios as often as on stages. Bill died in 2017; the team he trained, led by longtime general manager Steve McCreary, has kept the line right where he set it.
The Denver Folklore Center
Harry Tuft opened the Folklore Center on East 17th Avenue in 1962, modelling it on Izzy Young's shop in Greenwich Village, and it became the room Denver's acoustic scene organised itself around — Judy Collins, Doc Watson and Ramblin' Jack Elliott all passed through, and Swallow Hill Music grew directly out of it. The shop moved to South Pearl Street in 1993 and passed in 2023 to Ian Dehmel, who had worked there for years before buying it. The bench is as much the point as the wall.
