From Collings Guitars
OM' stands for "Orchestra Model," but 80 years after this body shape was first designed it has become the most popular 14-fret model with fingerstyle guitar soloists who choose to play on steel strings. Yet flatpickers also find it appealing, and when the graceful cutaway is added these OMs are often used by lead players who routinely explore all 20 frets much as they would on an electric guitar. The compact shape makes the Collings OM equally easy to handle onstage or when sitting on the couch, and the relatively shallow body (barely over 4 inches deep) results in balanced tone and an immediate response.
Model OM1A
Serial Number 36585
- Top
- Adirondack Spruce, Western Shade
- Back & Sides
- Honduran mahogany
- Construction
- Traditional Series Build and Voicing
- Neck
- Honduran mahogany
- Body Binding
- Tortoise with custom wood purflings
- Fingerboard Binding
- None
- Peghead Binding
- None
- Bridge
- Ebony belly-style with 2 5/16" spacing
- Fingerboard
- Ebony with gold MOP short dots
- Fingerboard Radius
- 14" - 26" compound
- Bridge Pins/End Pin
- Tortoise-style
- Nut
- Bone, 1 3/4"
- Saddle
- Bone, cutthrough
- Neck Profile
- Traditional
- Peghead Profile
- Square
- Neck Joint
- Mortise & tenon hybrid
- Truss Rod
- Fully adjustable
- Frets
- Medium 18% nickel-silver
- Peghead
- VeneerEbony with gold MOP Collings Logo
- Tuners
- Nickel Waverly, Relic Nickel Waverly for Vintage Satin models
- Backstrip
- 1-style (Walnut)
- Rosette
- Custom wood rosette
- Scale Length
- 25 1/2"
- Brace Material
- Sitka spruce
- Brace Pattern
- Custom Traditional Series pre-war scalloped X-brace (no tongue brace)
- Body Finish
- High gloss ultra-thin nitrocellulose lacquer
- Neck Finish
- High gloss polyester resin
- Pickguard
- Tortoise
- Strings
- D'Addario EJ-16 (.012"- .053")
- Case
- Deluxe hardshell case by TKL
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