|  Want a closeup? - click on any image to enlarge it    Want a closeup? - click on image to enlarge it | An outstanding, individual custom instrument, based on the Gibson L-00 model of the late 1920s in a custom black/black grain finish with pearloid headplate and pickguard - Built by one of the World's truly great manufacturers: Collings of Austin, Texas. It would be easy to disregard this small-bodied, mahogany guitar as an instrument built for its sheer good-looks alone, but that would be missing the point... or one of the points anyway... it sounds absolutely fantastic, with a rich, warm voice with plenty of punch.
It could do with a bit of playing-in (your job, not mine!) but essentially its staggering build-quality puts it in a different league to so many vintage instruments. A phenomenonally great guitar! We particulary like: - The absence of grain-filler on the seasoned mahogany back and sides, giving the body its spectacular, flecked appearance.
Dimensions - Across body (lower bout)
14 3/4" (37.5 cm) - Body depth
4 1/4" (10.3 cm) - Scale length
25.5" (648 mm) - Neck width at nut
1 11/16" (43.5 mm) - String spacing at bridge
56mm Construction -
Back & Sides Solid Mahogany - Soundboard
Solid Sitka spruce - Pickguard
White Pearloid - Binding
Grained Ivroid - Fingerboard
Ebony - Machineheads
Schaller - Bridge
Ebony, narrow format - Neck
1 Piece: Mahogany - Nut & Saddle
Bone - Case
deluxe arched ply, crushed velvet lining - Finish
Black nitrocellulose | 
