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Condition: Used, Excellent
Sporting a wider nut width and bridge spacing than stock, tortoise bindings, and a simplified 1-style backstrip, this OM3 from Collings. The German Spruce top weaves together some of our favorite qualities with the sparkle of Sitka and the headroom and punch of Adirondack, making this guitar perfect for both fingerstyle and flat-picking!
SP Luthier Notes: Setup, fret dress, top crack repair
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
- OM3
- Serial
- 20010
- Year
- 2012
- Top
- German Spruce
- Back & Sides
- Mahogany
- Neck
- Honduran Mahogany
- Body Binding
- Ivoroid with B/W/B/W/B Purfling
- Fingerboard Binding
- Tortoise
- Peghead Binding
- Tortoise
- Bridge
- Ebony Belly-Style 2 1/4" Spacing
- Fingerboard
- Ebony with No Inlay
- Bridge Pins/End Pin
- Ebony with Abalone Dot
- Nut
- Bone, 1 3/4"
- Saddle
- Bone, Drop-In
- Neck Profile
- Modified V
- Peghead Profile
- Tapered 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 w/Ebony Buttons (16:1 Ratio)
- Backstrip
- 1-Style (Walnut)
- Rosette
- Abalone
- Scale Length
- 25 1/2"
- Brace Material
- Adirondack Spruce
- Brace Pattern
- Pre-war Scalloped X-Brace
- Fingerboard Radius
- 14" - 26" Compound
- Body Finish
- High Gloss Nitrocellulose Lacquer
- Neck Finish
- High Gloss Polyester Resin
- Pickguard
- Tortoise
- 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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