Collings Guitars
CJ35A 2014 CJ35 with Adirondack Top
2014 · Listed at Maple Street Guitars · Atlanta, GA
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Maple Street Guitars’ site.
Photos hot-linked from Maple Street Guitars’ site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Adirondack Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Honduran Mahogany
- Neck
- Honduran Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Wenge
- Body shape
- Dreadnought
- Scale length
- 24.875"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- Preowned
- Year
- 2014
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.
Maple Street Guitars
Maple Street Guitars has been operating in Atlanta's Buckhead district for decades — a hands-on shop with one of the deepest boutique acoustic floors in the Southeast. Walking through their inventory at any given month surfaces serious depth on Collings alongside Santa Cruz, Lowden, Goodall, Bourgeois, Furch, and Larrivée's top-tier work — a curatorial mix that more closely resembles a Northeast destination shop than its market would predict. They run new and used inventory side by side, with the used catalog often including hard-to-find vintage examples from the same builders.
