Collings Guitars
New Collings O-1 Custom Jet Black
Listed at Thunder Road Guitars (Seattle) · Seattle, WA
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Thunder Road Guitars (Seattle)’s site.
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Specs
- Back / Sides
- Honduran Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- 0
- Scale length
- 24.875"
- Nut width
- 1.69"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- New
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.
Thunder Road Guitars (Seattle)
Thunder Road Guitars opened in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood in 2009 as an independently-owned family business with deep used and vintage shelves alongside a dense electric, amp, and pedal catalog. The acoustic floor leans heavily on the high-end mass-market custom shops — Fender Custom Shop, Gibson Custom, and Martin in serious depth — with the boutique slice sitting underneath: Collings as the constant, and the shop holding authorized-stockist status with both Collings and Lowden. They added a sister store in Portland's St. Johns in 2017, but each location runs its own inventory under a shared umbrella website — so Seattle stock and Portland stock don't pool. The Ballard floor is what ships out of Ballard.
