Description
Almost New Condition. SN: 26142.
Nut 1 3/4″ • Pins 2 1/4″
Mahogany body and neck. Sitka Spruce top, with Adirondack Red Spruce bracing underneath and no tongue brace under the top beneath fingerboard extension.
This 2017 Collings D-1 Custom guitar has barely any sign of prior ownership – no repairs, no dings, no dents, no fret wear, no strap button ever installed, etc.
Fine Sitka Spruce top with multiple bindings, Adirondack Spruce braces. High grade Mahogany back, sides and neck. Back has single tortoise binding. 1 3/4″ width at nut. Ebony fingerboard with graduated dot inlays. Ebony bridge, bridgepins and endpin. Nickel Waverly tuners. Ebony peghead overlay with Collings logo inlaid in pearl.
The sound is very strong, and not at all “tight”. We have had many configurations of various Collings models over the years. We order our stock D-1’s this way for one reason – to give you a guitar with great tone that sounds great now, but which will mature over the years while still retaining it’s “bite” and growl and power. The Adirondack braces work to keep the Sitka Spruce top more rigid over the years, instead of allowing the Sitka to naturally mature to the point of being somewhat “too friendly”. The tongue brace has been left out for those of you who are convinced that this allows slightly more vibratory joy to emanate from an already great guitar.
As always with Collings, the set-up is wonderful right from Collings’ shop. All this guitar needs is an avid player.
And as you’ve read above, this guitar sounds closer to a D-1A, than it does to most D-1’s.
Comes with Collings’ excellent TKL AVS series Orig Hard Case.
