Collings Guitars
D2H Sitka/Rosewood Dreadnought (Pre-owned)
Listed at Mak's Guitars · London, England
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Mak's Guitars’ site.
Photos hot-linked from Mak's Guitars’ site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Sitka Spruce
- Back / Sides
- East Indian Rosewood
- 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 started in a Houston apartment in 1973 and grew into something close to an institution. Bill Collings was the kind of builder who would reject a guitar over a tolerance most players couldn't feel, and that standard became a Collings trademark: crisp, articulate, pin-sharp tone that records beautifully and shows up in studios as often as on stages. Bill died in 2017, but the team he trained kept building, and the line has held — Collings still means what it has always meant.
Mak's Guitars
Mak's Guitars is a family-run independent shop at 56 Rathbone Place in London's Fitzrovia, owned and operated by Mak — a 25-year veteran of the British guitar industry. The catalog is curated rather than comprehensive: a deliberately narrow boutique-acoustic shelf focused on builders most London guitar retailers don't stock. Their British and Irish luthier coverage is the strongest in the Tonewood Atlas index — Atkin (Canterbury), Brook (Devon), McNally (Armagh), and Ralph Bown (York) sit alongside American boutique workhorses Bourgeois and Collings. Open Tuesday through Saturday, with private rooms set up for unhurried playing.