Collings Guitars
C10
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
- Sitka Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Honduran Mahogany
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- C10
- Scale length
- 25.5"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Condition
- New
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.
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.