This peach of a guitar is chock-full of unusual features, including old-growth Sitka spruce, old-growth East Indian rosewood and old-growth Honduran mahogany. The “haircut” headstock was ordered special, and in the mid-’90s, only about 5% of Collngses were built with a cutaway. Plays like a dream.

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• top: Old Sitka spruce

• b&s: old East Indian rosewood

• neck: old Honduran mahogany

• Body Binding Ivoroid with b/w/b/w/b purfling

• Cutaway Venetian

• Fingerboard Binding .060" ivoroid

• Peghead Binding .100" ivoroid with b/w purfling

• Bridge Ebony belly-style with 2 3/16" spacing

• Fingerboard Ebony with no inlay

• Fingerboard Radius 14" - 26" compound

• Bridge Pins/End Pin Ebony with abalone dot

• Nut Bone, 1 -¾"

• Saddle Bone, drop-in

• Neck Profile Modified V

• Peghead Profile custom “haircut” 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; “haircut”

• Tuners Gold Schallers

• Backstrip 3-style (Chevron)

• Rosette Abalone

• Scale Length 25 1/2"

• Brace Material Sitka spruce

• Brace Pattern Pre-war scalloped X-brace

• Body Finish High gloss nitrocellulose lacquer

• Neck Finish High gloss polyester resin

• Pickguard Tortoise

• Case Deluxe hardshell case by TKL