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| My latest guitar, a Collings CJ (Bill Collings' take on the Gibson J45). Sitka top, East Indian Rosewood back and sides, Honduran Mahogany neck, ebony bridge, fretboard and bridge pins, double-bound (cross-cut ivoroid) neck & peghead, Braz peghead facing, 1-3/4" bone nut and bone saddle, nickel open Waverly tuners with butterbean buttons. This thing sings!
 
 
 
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Location: Flahdaw | ooooohhhhhh.....nnnnnniiiiicccccceeeeee
About time you bought another guitar ;) |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Very nice. Someday . . . |
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Location: Tennessee | Ya ... but I bet you can't serve potato salad in that!
Nice one Serge. Good get. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Day-um Serge, that's slap dab gorgeous! :eek:
I hope she sounds as sweet as she looks. |
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Location: Vernon CT | Wow Serge!!! Thats one of the nicest Non-Ovation Burst I've ever scene! Gorgeous guitar, congrats! |
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Location: Cincinnati | Absolutely beautiful. Congrats, Serge! |
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Location: South of most, North of few | OH YEAH! Now yer talkin! Congrats Serge! |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | I've only had the opportunity to play one Collings guitar. If this thing sounds and plays like that one, I know you've gotten yourself one GREAT guitar. Congrats! |
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Location: Right now? | Yummy. Congrats, G8r.
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Willa |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Nice one Serge... |
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Location: WNC-God's Country | Awesome G8R !! |
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Location: Las Vegas, NV | Wow! Congrats! |
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| Thanks, everybody. These are truly spectacular guitars - build quality, materials, and most of all tone, tone and more tone. Dynamics are superb, with complex harmonics and incredible sustain. This model - in this wood combination - is a bit "darker" than some others, but that suits my playing style. The only guitar I've ever played that sounds better is a Merrill. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Merrill Streep? |
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Location: Tennessee | Merrill Stubing |
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Location: Vernon CT | Merrill Hodge |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Merrill Lee we roll along? |
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| "House of Blue Lights" - Merrill Moore |
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Location: Pennsylvania | Wow, that's a beautiful burst! I particularly like the cross-cut pick guard. |
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Location: Utica, NY | And they're off!
Merrill Lynch...anyone listening? |
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Location: SoCal | Nice guitar, Gator.
Gotta admit, there's a part of me that has the fear that if I get a guitar like that, I'd sell all my Ovations. |
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Location: Michigan | Say it aint so Moody. Nice guitar gator. A real work of art. |
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| Paul - it's a different sound, but I'm not giving up any of my O's or A's. They all have their own personality, and it'd be like saying which one is a favorite child. |
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Location: Texas | Very nice!
Congrats. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | yes, excellent, but ya'll already know that.
Nice inlays and p/g. those firestripes look best on a CJ/C-10 s/b.
congrats G8R! |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Looks better in person than the pics represent. The grain on the back and sides are gorgeous.
I enjoyed playing it. |
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| Hey T, how's that mix coming along? |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Beautiful. Congrats! |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by G8r:
Hey T, how's that mix coming along? Gonna try to work on it this weekend while it is snowing! |
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Location: big island | VERY nice, serge! i had one of those for awhile. congratulations! |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Way to go Sergio!
What have you done for the misses lately? |
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Location: Flahdaw | He's surprising her with a new Viper. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Wood is good.
Nice git g8er. |
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Location: closely held secret | Very, very nice Serge. Did you get that in CO? |
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Location: East Tennessee | Very Nice!!!! I love that burst. |
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| "Wood is good."
Yeah, especially at our age...
"Very, very nice Serge. Did you get that in CO?"
Yep, from a guy off the Collings board. I'll tell you all about it over Pyrat shots on the veranda next March.
dbg, I need to see when I can get down there to get that Viper |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by G8r:
I'll tell you all about it over Pyrat shots on the veranda next March. Yep. |
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Location: on the web | How's it spund plugged in ? |
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| Straight acoustic, for now. I'm gonna have my tech install a K&K PW w/ vintage endpin jack when he does the setup. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | good move, the western mini, right? three pickups? The vintage jack is great. Are you going to get the little belt preamp too? I got one but only use it half the time since the guitar is pretty hot without it (when running it through the Indigo-Alley sound system).
Come up some Thursday for dinner and open mic 7-11, we'll do some Grayson Capps tunes. |
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| That's the one. I was gonna wait on the belt pre to see how hot the signal was without it. I can run the out thru my Baggs DI for now. I really like the vintage jack idea - no drilling out the endpin hole for a standard jack. The thought of anything sharp and rotating very fast coming anywhere near my Collings makes me shudder...
I'll call you about coming up some Thur, sounds like fun. With the holidays coming up, things start getting crazy. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Originally posted by G8r:
The thought of anything sharp and rotating very fast coming anywhere near my Collings makes me shudder... Could be worse....you could have bought a Johnson |
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Location: nashville | Merrill Haggard, |
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Location: Jet City | Originally posted by ProfessorBB:
Very nice. Someday . . . ditto
Serge, that's an amazing looking instrument. I'd have a hard time leaving the house with that in it.
Congratulations Sir |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | It's hard to find a bad looking Collings.
Ovations and Collings (to my mind) consistently have the best looking bursts. |
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