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. It is the wood of choice on the original “Golden Age” guitars of 1934-1944, but, unlike those guitars, this is made using East Indian Rosewood for the back & sides, grained ivoroid bindings, it has prewar style scalloped bracing, a herringbone top border, crosscut grained ivoroid and wood strip rosette, a tortoise style pickguard, gloss-finished all solid mahogany neck, an ebony fingerboard and bridge, a 25-1/2" scale length, and we also choose the option of the 1-3/4" nut width. It has a mother of pearl inlaid Collings logo and a traditional diamond and square inlaid fingerboard, plus nickel-plated Waverly brand tuners. It is, indeed, the best of all possible combinations of specification, tone wood and detail and he or she that shall own this benevolent visitor from another time and another dimension (Austin is an hour behind us) shall know what it is like to approach true perfection and to rise like a bolus [a ball-shaped mass] of helium up and up to the next level, and then the next one after that where they can jump up and down and point down at their friends with gesticulations of mockery and mindless belittlement.