Collings Guitars
001 Old Growth Sitka
Listed at McCabe's Guitar Shop · Santa Monica, CA
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at McCabe's Guitar Shop’s site.
Photos hot-linked from McCabe's Guitar Shop’s site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Sitka Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Mahogany
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- 00
- Scale length
- 24.875"
- 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.
McCabe's Guitar Shop
McCabe's Guitar Shop has been a Santa Monica institution since 1958 — a folk-revival anchor on Pico Boulevard that became as well-known for its 150-seat back-room concert hall as for its guitar floor. The concert series alone (running since 1969) turned the shop into a destination for songwriters and fingerstyle players passing through Los Angeles. Their boutique acoustic shelves rotate around Bourgeois, Collings, and Santa Cruz alongside the deep Martin / Taylor catalog that anchors the room. A small, curated boutique presence in a shop with an outsized cultural footprint.
