Collings Guitars
01 12-Fret Mahogany
Listed at Dave's Guitar Shop · La Crosse, WI
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Dave's Guitar Shop’s site.
Photos hot-linked from Dave's Guitar Shop’s site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Mahogany
- Back / Sides
- Mahogany
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- 0
- Scale length
- 24.9"
- Nut width
- 1.81"
- Frets to body
- 12
- 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.
Dave's Guitar Shop
Dave's Guitar Shop opened in La Crosse, Wisconsin in 1982, when Dave Rogers — a blues player who'd been buying and trading out of his home — rented a 400-square-foot former dental office. Four decades on it fills a roughly 21,000-square-foot building at 1227 S. 3rd St. with more than 2,500 guitars, making it one of the largest independently owned guitar stores in the Midwest; Rogers' public vintage collection (300-plus instruments, including a 1959 Les Paul) draws players from well beyond the region. The floor leans electric and vintage, but the acoustic room runs deep: Dave's carries Martin, Taylor, Gibson, Collings, Santa Cruz, Goodall, Larrivée, and McPherson, from working-musician models to custom-shop and high-end flat-tops, new and used. Roughly 70% of sales now ship by phone and web, with new arrivals photographed and posted daily. A Midwest institution, and a real destination for boutique acoustic shopping.
