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Condition: Used, Excellent.
Put simply: This is what great dreadnoughts aspire to be. It is loud. It is articulate. It doesn't just do the thing, it does all of the things, and perfectly at that.
SP Luthier Notes: Fret Dress, Minor Setup
From Collings Guitars
The square-shouldered 14-fret dreadnought is the most popular steel-string acoustic guitar body shape in the world. While Collings is certainly not the only company to build them, we bring a new tonal clarity to the depth and warmth usually associated with such a large, deep-bodied guitar. Although its bass response makes the dreadnought ideal for vocal accompaniment, Collings versions are also often employed by bluegrass flatpickers who must compete with inherently louder instruments such as banjos and fiddles. The wide range of woods and neck sizes offered allow dreadnought fans to find a Collings model ideally suited to their playing style and tonal preference.
- Top
- Sitka spruce
- Back & Sides
- E. Indian rosewood
- Neck
- Honduran mahogany
- Body Binding
- Ivoroid with herringbone purfling
- Fingerboard Binding
- None
- Peghead Binding
- None
- Bridge
- Ebony belly-style with 2 3/16" spacing
- Fingerboard
- Ebony with abalone long diamond & squares
- Fingerboard Radius
- 14" - 26" compound
- Bridge Pins/End Pin
- Ebony with MOP dot
- Nut
- Bone, 1 11/16"
- Saddle
- Bone, drop-in
- Neck Profile
- Modified V
- Peghead Profile
- Square with volute
- Neck Joint
- Mortise & tenon hybrid
- Truss Rod
- Fully adjustable
- Frets
- Medium 18% nickel-silver
- Peghead Veneer
- Stained Exotic Ebony with MOP Collings logo
- Tuners
- Nickel Waverly
- Backstrip
- 2-style (Zipper)
- Rosette
- iv/tort/iv & b/w purflings
- Scale Length
- 25 1/2"
- Brace Material
- Sitka spruce
- Brace Pattern
- Pre-war scalloped X-brace
- Body Finish
- High gloss nitrocellulose lacquer
- Neck Finish
- High gloss polyester resin
- Pickguard
- Tortoise
- Strings
- D'Addario EJ-17 (.013"- .056")
- 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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