From Collings Guitars
This is the original 12-fret dreadnought shape, first designed as an oversized Hawaiian guitar almost a century ago. We’ve retained the shape and wide neck with slotted headstock from that bygone era, but our DS models are thoroughly modern guitars with a unique sound all their own.
The longer body with the bridge closer to the center of the lower bout delivers an open, airy tone with smoothness and warmth not typically found in modern 14-fret dreadnoughts. Whether flatpicked or played fingerstyle, these guitars have lots of headroom and the wide dynamic range invites everything from mellow accompaniment to biting leads.
Our 2-style (DS2H) features East Indian rosewood back and sides with ivoroid body binding and butt wedge, herringbone top purfling, a “zipper” backstrip, diamonds and squares fingerboard inlays, and a more intricate 2-style rosette.
- Top
- Adirondack 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 3/8" spacing
- Fingerboard
- Ebony with abalone long diamond & squares
- Fingerboard Radius
- 14" - 26" compound
- Bridge Pins/End Pin
- Ebony with MOP dot
- Nut
- Bone, 1 13/16"
- Saddle
- Bone, drop-in
- Neck Profile
- Modified V
- Peghead Profile
- Tapered slotted square with volute
- Neck Joint
- Mortise & tenon hybrid
- Truss Rod
- Fully adjustable
FretsMedium; 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
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