Collings

The Collings MF5 is a fully appointed F-model with a carved seasoned Red spruce top and premium maple back and sides. With its superb tone, elegant stylings and unmatched playability, the MF5 is sure to please the most discerning eyes and ears.

The UT1 is a 1-style mahogany tenor ukulele. Built with the same quality construction as our higher end models, the satin finish UT1 is undoubtedly one of the finest professional tenor ukes available in its price range. With solid mahogany top, back and side wood, its visual beauty rivals its sonic complexity.

'OM' stands for "Orchestra Model," but 80 years after this body shape was first designed it has become the most popular 14-fret model with fingerstyle guitar soloists who choose to play on steel strings. Yet flatpickers also find it appealing, and when the graceful cutaway is added these OMs are often used by lead players who routinely explore all 20 frets much as they would on an electric guitar. The compact shape makes the Collings OM equally easy to handle onstage or when sitting on the couch, and the relatively shallow body (barely over 4 inches deep) results in balanced tone and an immediate response.

This extremely fine, beautifully made instrument has a Honduran mahogany body and neck with a satin nitrocellulose lacquer finish, East Indian rosewood fretboard and veneer, traditional single-point headstock and geared tuning pegs.  It also sounds absolutely amazing.

Even in their least example mandolin model Collings continues the standard of perfection of design and execution for which they are famous. The top is so close-grained as to create eddies and pools of medullary rays (cross-silking), the maple on the sides, back and neck is curly and striped.  This one has the standard 1 1/8" fingerboard width at the nut.

Here’s what Collings Guitar Company has to say about this model: “Based on parlor guitars first introduced around the same time as the OM, the Collings C10 is a leaner alternative, with the narrow waist and small upper bout resulting in a precise, focused response. Of all our acoustic models, the C10 is perhaps the easiest for electric guitarists to adapt to, thanks in part to the more rounded neck profile. The small oval neck heel is ideally suited to the optional cutaway, which allows unrestricted access to the upper frets.

The MT2 Mandola is our fully appointed mandola with a seasoned Red spruce top and premium maple back and sides. With a comfortable 15.9" scale length, it can be played just like a mandolin, but the low C string adds a whole new dimension of musical possibilities. Its superb tone, elegant stylings and unmatched playability make the MT2 Mandola a natural to please the most discerning eyes and ears.

Named after the famous Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, KS, the Collings Winfield (or CW) is a versatile and well-endowed version of the Collings standard dreadnought that features the options that are most often requested by flatpickers. The combination of the somewhat stiffer Adirondack "Red" Spruce top with the oversized soundhole, supported by a top bracing pattern that one might find on really old 14-fret dreadnoughts from, say, the years 1934 to 1936, make the CW a bluegrass powerhouse.  NOW ON SALE!  WAS $4118 BUT NOW:

Strikingly beautiful in its elegant simplicity, this guitar starts with the extremely dark Brazilian rosewood headstock overlay featuring the shockingly white Collings script inlaid pearl logo and the six shiny nickel plated Waverly tuners with the open-gears and butterbean buttons. The nut and saddle are bone, as are most of us.

This instrument has a Honduran mahogany body and neck with a satin nitrocellulose lacquer finish, East Indian rosewood fretboard and veneer, traditional single-point headstock and geared tuning pegs.

mother-of-pearl Collings logo in headstock, Gotoh tuners, Collings custom one-piece tailpiece and hard shell case.  The Collings mandolin (no matter what model) is one of the finest sounding company-made mandolins available in our entire inventory of mandolins. Its sound Willie Mays you.

It is housed in a deluxe TKL “American Vintage Series” plush-lined, retro-looking hard shell case. This model is made from exemplary East Indian rosewood on the back and sides, a select Adirondack “Red” spruce top; it has grained ivoroid binding, prewar style scalloped bracing, a herringbone top border, crosscut grained ivoroid and wood strip rosette, a tortoise style pickguard. 

having tortoise type binding, prewar scalloped bracing, black/white wood nitrate strip rosette, tortoise style pickguard & binding, ebony fingerboard and bridge, gloss-finished mahogany neck, nickel Waverly tuners and that plush lined TKL AVS series hard shell case.

“290” is another highway that cuts through Austin, Texas. What a great idea! It’s so difficult to name new instruments. This model features a solid mahogany body, high gloss lacquer finish, twin custom P-90-style pickups by Jason Lollar, a Tone-Pro bridge and tailpiece, it is available with either black or amber top hat volume and tone knobs.

The OM-3 has the same appointments as the Collings OM-2H, without the herringbone border and with the addition of select abalone, black/white wood and nitrate strip rosette, bound fingerboard and double-bound peghead, no fingerboard inlay, gold Waverly tuners. 

Adirondack top, grained ivoroid binding, prewar scalloped bracing, herringbone border, crosscut grained ivoroid and wood strip rosette, tortoise style pickguard, gloss-finished mahogany neck, ebony fingerboard and bridge, 25-1/2" scale length, 1-3/4" nut width, mother of pearl Collings logo and a traditional diamond and square inlay and nickel Waverly tuners and hard shell case.

We order these with the special option of the Adirondack “Red” Spruce top because we know that this wide-grain wood produces tone like no other top wood.