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| Many of you helped contribute points of view on my custom guitar quest for my summer birthday, and today a placed an order for a Collings dred, jazzed up pretty good. I appreciate your responses! Thank you. |
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Location: Tennessee | Nice! Did you get the varnish finish?
Congrats on a great choice! |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | NICE....now come on.....spill the details! |
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| Stonebobbo, I did not get the varnish. I played one with the varnish and it sounded great; however, I played several others without the varnish that also sounded great, so I considered it, but decided not.
Once I decided on the Collings, some of the toughest items to decide upon were:
neck width, varnish or not, adi bracing (the Collings guy on the phone talked me out of this one.)
Stephent28,
Basically it's a D3 with
style 42 top,
style 45 fret inlays,
rose peghead,
Euro spruce top/madagascar back/sides,
1 23/32 nut width.
So, it's sort of a Martin d-42 with cooler woods, a little wider neck width, with a little design on the headstock, made by Collins just for me.
Yes, that wife sure is generous! |
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| Man, that sounds (and will really sound) killer. I'm really curious about Mad Rose - it's supposed to surpass Braz in tap tone resonance, and with a Euro top that will be one fine-sounding instrument.
I thought of putting in a custom order for my Collings, but didn't want to wait that long. Fortunately, I found one to my liking pretty quickly. Congrats, you'll be very pleased. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Beautiful order. Someday, I'm going to have to do the same thing, maybe after Mr. Big takes on the line. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Congratulations. So that was you over on the Collings Forum? |
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| Beal, I was on many forums trying to get as much info and differing opinions as possible.
These boards are a great source of opinion, information, and misinformation! It's interesting trying to sort it all out. I'm happy with my choice and I have no doubt it'll be an awesome guitar. |
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Thanks for your input!
