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Collings guitar cases
Spoke to Cust. Svc. at Collings where I have a custom order about to be sent to me. I inquired about the legendary Collings custom cases. I stated before on AGF that they aren’t being built anymore and that the tooling was mothballed….BUT….I was surprised to hear that custom Collings cases had NEVER been built or available for their OM’s and their 000’s. In a way I was relieved.
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Eddie “If Immanuel Kant, can Ghengis Kahn?” Collings cust 000 shrt Koa b/s Eu Spruce top Santa Cruz cust OM shrt Maple b/s Germ Spruce top Martin D-41 Dan Fogelberg Lmt edit Rainsong 2001 ‘Hawaiian’ WD 1100 all CF Milagro Rosewood b/s Euro Spruce top Classical Taylor cust GA EIR b/s Addi top Florentine cut Journey carbon fiber “Overhead” breakdown travel Fender Standard American Strat |
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I have several Collings OMs sitting in Collings cases. I wonder if the Customer Service person misunderstood the question...
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Are those cases actually discontinued? I thought I heard they are still making them...
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I bought one of the last OM cases directly from the factory for my OM42BaaaV - they are in fact discontinued and not likely to be put back into production.
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2004 Collings OM42BaaaA 2019 Martin 37' D28AA 2020 Collings D1ATS 2021 Martin 39' D18AA 2015 Duff F5 2008 Kimble A5 AO Tele 60's LPB Vintage Fender Twin Last edited by Tempotantrum; 10-13-2021 at 09:24 PM. |
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specifically. Even if the Collings logo is riveted on the case it doesn't imply Collings built it.
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Eddie “If Immanuel Kant, can Ghengis Kahn?” Collings cust 000 shrt Koa b/s Eu Spruce top Santa Cruz cust OM shrt Maple b/s Germ Spruce top Martin D-41 Dan Fogelberg Lmt edit Rainsong 2001 ‘Hawaiian’ WD 1100 all CF Milagro Rosewood b/s Euro Spruce top Classical Taylor cust GA EIR b/s Addi top Florentine cut Journey carbon fiber “Overhead” breakdown travel Fender Standard American Strat |
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I recently had some issues with a TKL case that came with my new Collings OM2H. In the process of trying to get it sorted, a discussion came up about the Collings cases with my dealer, who has been a long time Collings dealer. He told me they ordered as many as they could get before they were gone, but the reality is the skilled man hours required to build them in the USA vs what they could sell them for wasn't sustainable. Apparently Bill Collings, when he was still alive, was notorious for walking out of meetings saying "I don't care what it cost, find a way to make it work." From what I've been told, what they'd have had to charge to even break even would have been more that almost anybody would have been willing to pay. So, apparently, they were always sold at a loss, from day one.
From what I have been told, the production line for them has been disassembled and the space allocated has now been devoted to other tasks. |
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Collings built their own vintage-inspired custom cases for, at one time or another: dreadnoughts, OMs, CJ (jumbo), C-10, 12 and 14-fret 0, and their parlor guitar.
There are currently no cases being built. Dealers that go deep w/ Collings (like us) have a limited number of instruments still in inventory with the Collings case. When a Collings case is involved, the instrument price goes up by $500 (total $850 case cost built into the instrument, the now-standard-again TKL adds $350) I recently put in a request to get some of the TKL cases for store stock and Collings told me that they couldn't get them for us, they were having a hard enough time getting enough cases for the guitars they were building for shops. So they can't build em and they can't even buy em! The supply chain strikes again.
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I ordered a few when they were available - love them. I have an extra "D" size Collings made case still in the shipping box that I am about to post if anyone is interested....
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2004 Collings OM42BaaaA 2019 Martin 37' D28AA 2020 Collings D1ATS 2021 Martin 39' D18AA 2015 Duff F5 2008 Kimble A5 AO Tele 60's LPB Vintage Fender Twin |
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