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Originally Posted by Kh1967
Acoustic Music Works refers to it as "the gateway drug of fine, fine guitars" - the Collings OM1...
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Mine was literally the gateway - a few years ago I traded mine for the deposit on a handbuilt guitar... and then really missed it. It's the only guitar I've ever sold that I regretted.
I was lucky enough to be able to acquire another OM1 last year and, aside from the headplate (my first was Brazilian rosewood, this one looks like ebony) it looks, plays and sounds identical to my first. Collings guitars really are remarkably consistent. I never intend to sell this one!
In some ways, the OM1 is the perfect guitar: it can lay its hand to virtually any style. There are many different-sounding and -feeling guitars out there, and subjectively some players will like and dislike them for different reasons; but
objectively (fit, finish, elegance of design, playability, consistency of tone) I don't think you will find a
better guitar anywhere than the Collings OM1.
Cheers,
David