Collings Guitars
D-1 Sunburst 2024
2024 · Listed at Mighty Fine Guitars · Lafayette, CA
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Mighty Fine Guitars’ site.
$6,750
Last seen 13h ago on dealer site
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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
- Year
- 2024
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.
Mighty Fine Guitars
In Lafayette, just east of the Bay, Mighty Fine Guitars keeps a deep, rotating bench of one-off luthier flat-tops — a consignment and used shop where a Somogyi or a Sexauer might sit beside a Klein & Kauffman, a Heiden, or a Wingert, with vintage Martin and Gibson nearby. The room leans toward the individual makers of the American steel-string revival more than the production names, though Collings, Bourgeois, and Santa Cruz round it out. It reads less like a catalog than a well-kept collection.
