Collings Guitars
2012 Collings 0001 Lefty
2012 · Listed at Folkway Music · Waterloo, ON
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Folkway Music’s site.
Photos hot-linked from Folkway Music’s site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Sitka Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Mahogany
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- 000
- Scale length
- 25.5"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- Frets to body
- 12
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- Preowned
- Year
- 2012
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.
Folkway Music
Folkway Music in Waterloo, Ontario is a repair-anchored shop — owner Mark Stutman built the store on vintage restoration work, and every instrument spends time on a Folkway bench before it goes on the wall. The boutique acoustic side carries a steady rotation of Collings, Atkin, Santa Cruz, Iris, Lakewood, and Pre-War, while the vintage Martin and Gibson inventory runs deep year-round. One of the best stops in Canada for boutique flatops, and a long-standing destination for serious vintage buyers across North America.
