Sound Pure's Take
Condition: Used, Excellent
Collings has knocked it out of the park yet again with a truly vintage-inspired dread. With a specially designed neck profile and unique bracing approach, the CJ-45 T has a beautiful, fundamental rich tone that responds to the player perfectly. Hard strumming, furious flat-picking, and fingerstyle approaches all pay off with glorious sound!
Luthier Notes: Fret Dress, Setup.
From Collings Guitars
As with all of our Traditional Series guitars, when it came time to add a “T” designation to our slope-shoulder offerings, we didn’t simply tweak the original; the all-new Collings CJ-45 T is a fully re-imagined instrument that offers a distinct tonal variation when compared to our CJ and CJ-35 models.
Strongly vintage-inspired, the body construction has been completely re-engineered, including new bracing carves and patterns. When combined with our latest T-Series neck design and new CJ-45 neck profile, the result showcases a tone that is exceptionally dry and fundamental with the growl and thump sought after in the great slope-shoulder dreads of the Wartime era.
Model: CJ-45 AT
Serial: 31620
Top: Adirondack Spruce
Back & Sides: Honduran Mahogany
Construction: Traditional Series Build and Voicing
Neck: Honduran Mahogany
Body Binding: Ivoroid with no purfling
Fingerboard Binding: None
Peghead Binding: None
Bridge: Ebony Straight-Style with 2 5/16" Spacing
Fingerboard: Indian Rosewood with 19 Frets and MOP Long Dots
Bridge Pins/End Pin: Ivoroid with no dot
Nut: Bone, 1 3/4"
Saddle: Bone, Cutthrough
Neck Profile: CJ-45 Carve
Peghead Profile: Haricut
Neck Joint: Mortise & Tenon Hybrid
Truss Rod: Fully Adjustable
Frets: Medium 18% Nickel-Silver
Peghead Veneer: Ebony with MOP Collings Logo
Tuners: Nickel Waverly w/Ivoroid Buttons (16:1 Ratio)
Backstrip: None
Rosette: Single-Ring of Multiple B/W Purflings
Scale Length: 24 7/8"
Brace Material: Sitka Spruce
Brace Pattern: CJ-45 Wartime Scalloped X-Brace
Body Finish: High Gloss Nitrocellulose Lacquer
Neck Finish: High Gloss Nitrocellulose Lacquer
Pickguard: Tortoise
Electronics: K&K Pickup
Case: Deluxe Hardshell Case by TKL
Warranty
This item is sold without the Sound Pure 3-year warranty (used / B-stock / dealer-exempt). Coverage terms for items in this category live in Terms & Conditions, Section 27.
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