Collings Guitars
New Collings NAMM Special 001 All Mahogany w/Rope Purfling (PDX)
Listed at Thunder Road Guitars (Portland) · Portland, OR · Dealer ref #35344
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Thunder Road Guitars (Portland)’s site.
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Specs
- Top
- Mahogany
- Back / Sides
- Mahogany
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- 00
- Scale length
- 24.875"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- Frets to body
- 12
- 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.
Thunder Road Guitars (Portland)
Thunder Road Guitars opened in Portland's St. Johns neighborhood in 2017, the second store from the Seattle Ballard original (est. 2009) — an independently-owned family business with deep used and vintage shelves alongside a dense electric, amp, and pedal catalog. The Portland floor carries the broadest Collings shelf in either store (substantially deeper than Seattle's) plus the high-end mass-market custom shops — Fender Custom Shop, Gibson Custom, Martin — in serious depth. The shop holds authorized-stockist status with both Collings and Lowden, reflecting a real Pacific Northwest dealer relationship for boutique steel-string buyers. Each store runs its own inventory under a shared umbrella website, so what's on the St. Johns floor is what ships out of St. Johns.
