The Collings 470 JL is a stunning fully hollow electric that blends old-world elegance with modern precision and remarkable musicality. Its Honduran mahogany body with a trestle block offers airy resonance while remaining focused and stable, complemented beautifully by the maple laminate top’s clarity and snap. Ron Ellis Ellisonics pickups deliver rich harmonics, dynamic sensitivity, and a deeply expressive voice that responds effortlessly to touch. Finished in antiqued nitro and outfitted with a Bigsby B3, this guitar feels lovingly broken-in, supremely playable, and thoughtfully refined—an heirloom-quality investment built to inspire confidence, creativity, and long-term tonal reward.

The success of the Collings OM1 JL combined with Julian Lage’s love of electric guitars meant a second Collings-Julian collaboration was inevitable. But following such a highly-praised signature model with yet another meant leaving nothing on the table. From its organic beginnings, the process envisioned by both parties was something designed and built from the sound up.

The Collings 470 JL is the result of years-long conversations, engineering, testing, tweaking, playing, and listening. And then doing it all over again until it was right. From first sketches through plugging in the final prototypes, every aspect of this model is the result of a unique approach, technique, and style – both from the builder’s and player’s point of view – culminating in a one-of-a-kind electric guitar experience.

In collaboration with our friend Julian Lage, we proudly present the Collings 470 JL.

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