Collings Guitars
USED Collings D1 Acoustic Guitar - Sitka Spruce Top, Honduran Mahogany Back & Sides, Scalloped X-Bracing
Listed at Music Street · Huntingdon, England
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Music Street’s site.
Photos hot-linked from Music Street’s site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Sitka Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Honduran Mahogany
- Neck
- 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
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.
Music Street
Music Street operates from a Huntingdon storefront in Cambridgeshire, about 70 miles north of London, as a family-run independent founded in 2014 by Tony Rawson — a longtime music-retail manager who came up under Jeff Pumfrett at Machinehead Hitchin. The shop's identity is its in-house luthier bench: every instrument, in-store or online, is set up before it leaves the building, and the floor staff (several ex-Machinehead, all working touring musicians whose credits include Sister Sledge, Tony Hadley, and James Bay) sell on advice rather than commission. The retail floor runs broad across PRS, Patrick James Eggle, Rock n Roll Relics, Fender, Gibson, Martin, and Duesenberg (Music Street is the UK Flagship Duesenberg dealer), with a focused boutique-acoustic shelf anchored by Lowden — F, S, O, and Wee series across multiple appointment tiers, plus rotating Collings, Huss & Dalton, and more.
