Collings Guitars
OM1 Traditional (701)
Listed at Willcutt Guitars · Lexington, KY
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Willcutt Guitars’ site.
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Specs
- Top
- Sitka Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Honduran Mahogany
- Neck
- Honduran Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- Orchestra Model
- Scale length
- 25.5"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- Frets to body
- 14
- 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.
Willcutt Guitars
Willcutt Guitars has run out of Lexington, Kentucky's Beaumont Center since the mid-1990s, operating as one of the larger online guitar dealers in the country. The catalog runs wide across Fender, Gibson, PRS, Martin, and Taylor, with substantial custom-shop content from each — but the boutique-acoustic shelf sits at the heart of the shop, anchored by an unusually deep Collings inventory that includes much of the current production lineup plus a steady rotation of pre-owned and signature models. Santa Cruz, Bourgeois, and Larrivée round out the acoustic floor, with periodic Preston Thompson, McPherson, Goodall, Lowden, and Pre-War listings. For Collings shoppers in particular, Willcutt is one of the deepest single-dealer catalogs in the US.
