Bill Collings Tribute Guitar

[BrunoBlack]

Check this one out. See it here.

[Jabberwocky]

[golfreggie]

I saw that too, as I am going to get a new 1-11/16" nut D1AT so I have been on Collings' website just learning more of the company, and the guitar looks neat, and I am sure it will sell, but at this juncture I cannot find any info on it being ready for sale/order yet. Best wishes to Collings

[stringjunky]

I wouldn't say no to a 000 looking like that. The ivoroid and colour scheme is perfectly matched. Super

[Maryc-k]

I’m not sure it is for sale.

[3notes]

Oh no. I had no idea he had died. Seemed like a real down-to-earth sort of guy in the videos I've watched.

How many luthiers out there don't play guitar.?? Not many I'm guessing.

Bill died on my birthday, fwiw.

All the best to Collings Guitars. I'm sure the shop was left in good hands.

That tribute guitar already looks like it belongs in a museum. Beautiful.

[drive-south]

Bills archtop guitars were sublime. Im sure this will also be incredible.

[Brucebubs]

Going by that picture I think I like the look with a soundhole more than the traditional/common archtop f holes.
Simply beautiful.

[Wade Hampton]

Originally Posted by stringjunky2

I wouldn't say no to a 000 looking like that. The ivoroid and colour scheme is perfectly matched. Super

As it happens, the Cremona brown color of the top, which was a standard option offered by Gibson in the early part of the 20th Century, is what I had my most recent custom guitar finished in. A local Anchorage luthier, Bob Clark, built a 12 fret Triple O with koa back and sides, and hand-rubbed the top to the same color as this very cool archtop.

I'm a sucker for those old hand-rubbed Gibson finishes, from the days before spray guns and airbrushing were invented.


whm

[gitarro]

Whos in charge od the collings shop now?

[David MacNeill]

Gorgeous guitar, but I would never buy an archtop. They sound, even in the best hands, acoustically plinky-plonky and thin to me. And unless the bridge is pinned (like on some Gretsch models) it’s going to shift on you. High maintenance, they are.

[stringjunky]

Originally Posted by Wade Hampton

As it happens, the Cremona brown color of the top, which was a standard option offered by Gibson in the early part of the 20th Century, is what I had my most recent custom guitar finished in. A local Anchorage luthier, Bob Clark, built a 12 fret Triple O with koa back and sides, and hand-rubbed the top to the same color as this very cool archtop.

I'm a sucker for those old hand-rubbed Gibson finishes, from the days before spray guns and airbrushing were invented.


whm

Now I know what to ask for. It's a really classic look.

[stringjunky]

Originally Posted by David MacNeill

Gorgeous guitar, but I would never buy an archtop. They sound, even in the best hands, acoustically plinky-plonky and thin to me. And unless the bridge is pinned (like on some Gretch models) it’s going to shift on you. High maintenance, they are.

They are mainly jazz tools, aren't they, where the last thing you want is sustain to blur the fast note runs.

[Daniel Grenier]

Beautiful instrument but definitely not an “all purpose” guitar.

[Maryc-k]

Collings is being run by the same folks who were running it when Bill was there. Steve McCreary is still the GM.