Collings Guitars
2018 Collings D1AT
2018 · Listed at Willie's American Guitars · Saint Paul, MN
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Willie's American Guitars’ site.
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Specs
- Top
- Adirondack Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Honduran Mahogany
- Neck
- Honduran Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- Dreadnought
- Scale length
- 25.5"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- Preowned
- Year
- 2018
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.
Willie's American Guitars
Willie's American Guitars is a long-running Saint Paul anchor in the Mac-Groveland neighborhood, operating since the 1980s and specializing in vintage and boutique acoustic guitars in equal measure. The floor pairs deep Martin and Gibson vintage with curated new boutique builds — Collings, Santa Cruz, and Larrivée rotate alongside Martin Custom Shop and the occasional surprise in their "Other" subcategory. The shop is small enough to know every instrument on the wall and old enough that the wall has seen a lot of inventory pass through. For Upper Midwest players, they're the closest serious destination for both ends of the acoustic spectrum — current builds and historic instruments under one roof.
