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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | A while back, I posted a thread when I purchased a Martin D-42. Beal seemed to really like the guitar, but said if I liked that one, I should try the "C" word......
Darn you Beal! See what you started?!
I got this on Saturday. And it sounds every, single bit as bad as it looks!
Collings DS-41, Slope shoulder Dreadnaught, (serial # 1488-build started in October, 1994)
* Select Sitka spruce
* 41-style abalone top border
* East Indian rosewood back and sides
* Grained ivoroid binding
* Black/white wood strip purfling
* Multi-color mosaic back strip
* Select abalone rosette
* Pre-war scalloped bracing
* Tortoise-style pickguard
* High gloss nitrocellulose lacquer finish
* Mahogany Neck
* Bound fingerboard and double bound peghead
* Slotted peghead with Rosewood overlay
* Torch peghead inlay
* Ebony fingerboard and belly bridge
* 42-style snowflake fingerboard inlays
* Fully adjustable truss rod
* Bone nut and drop-in saddle
* Ebony bridge pins and end pin
* Nickel Waverly slot-head tuners
I've had a K&K pick-up installed as well. Down the road? It'll get gold Waverlies, and it needs a new case.
Lots more pictures can be found on my NING Page.
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Location: Tennessee | You should send that back to Austin and have them put a redwood top on it.
No, check that. That's a seriously nice guitar. And I'm sure it sounds better than it looks. Congrats. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | nice grab. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Beal said for you to send that guitar to me immediately. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Something's wrong with the back. It's flat and made of wood. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Listening to that Beal guy can cause all kinds of things to happen.
Fortunately.. this was a good thing.
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Nice get on a nice git. |
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Location: Jet City | SWMBO doesn't let me use the "C" word.
Patch, that thing's a work of art man. Whatever you do, don't hide it away man, keep it out and played often!
Congrats |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Really beautiful. Love the abalone trim. What's the advantage of the slope shoulder style? How would it compare with an OM body, all other things being equal? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | you are hosed now
or as they say in the south, rurnt
very nice
now you will have to tell us the truth...
on when you start thinking about the next one......
prof, it's D body expanded so it's 12 frets clear. The OM is shallower and tighter waisted and all that |
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Location: Route 66, just east of the Cadillac Ranch | So that explains the fire sale. Glad everything worked out for you. She's a beauty! |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Dunno, think I like more curves on my womens. |
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Location: SoCal | D body, 12 fret guitars are seriously serious guitars. Very nice.... |
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Location: Texas | Very nice, Patch, congrats! |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | Originally posted by Beal:
you are hosed now
or as they say in the south, rurnt
very nice
now you will have to tell us the truth...
on when you start thinking about the next one......
prof, it's D body expanded so it's 12 frets clear. The OM is shallower and tighter waisted and all that Rurnt is right.....
There was this beautiful 00-42 Collings hanging in the same shop. And it's cheaper than the Martin 000-42 I've been taking WAY too many looks at.
Sigh.....
The fire sale continues I guess.....
Stupid GAS! |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | Originally posted by ProfessorBB:
Really beautiful. Love the abalone trim. What's the advantage of the slope shoulder style? How would it compare with an OM body, all other things being equal? From scrounging around their site, I think the biggest differences in a slope shoulder are that it:
A) Allows for a longer body (more volume in the box) because they don't shorten the neck, they stretch the shoulders two additional frets.
B) This allows them to move the bridge "closer to the center of the lower bout, delivering an open, airy tone with smoothness and warmth not typically found in modern, 14-fret dreadnoughts."
All I know is it sounds spectacular! |
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Location: SoCal | 1 3/4" neck? |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Tragically opulent.
I am saddened by your good fortune.
May the grin become permanently affixed. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I see on their website that they are well-liked by fingerpickers and are known for their midrange clarity and volume (where have we heard this before?). Anybody use these exclusively for flatpicking? |
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Location: Flahdaw | Beal has lots of Collings and does a lot of flatpicking |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I think that since it is 12-fret to the body, it is designed primarily for the fingerpickers.
Be a bit hard to play those higher notes for leads with that big body in the way. |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
1 3/4" neck? Yep. Love it! |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | Originally posted by stonebobbo:
You should send that back to Austin and have them put a redwood top on it. Someone's on to me. :rolleyes:
Wouldn't that be a killer guitar though? |
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Location: south east Michigan | maybe...maybe not.
If Collings does NOT offer a redwood top, that should give you a clue.
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Does Collings offer something with a redwood top?
I could do the extensive & time consuming research but it's a lot easier just to as those who already know. |
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Location: nashville | For our oversees friends. So when he says "bad" he mean "It looks and sounds so amazingly fan damn tastic you cant believe your ears and eyes, I am selling all my other guitars because they will be just setting around with rusting strings and collecting dust." |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | Originally posted by james37214:
For our oversees friends. So when he says "bad" he mean "It looks and sounds so amazingly fan damn tastic you cant believe your ears and eyes, I am selling all my other guitars because they will be just setting around with rusting strings and collecting dust." Well, I wouldn't go that far! The O's from my personal collection that I was willing to let go are either gone or spoken for already. The rest stay.
I like'em too much. And I have others on my wish list.
I'm on this board for a reason. I really, REALLY like Ovations. And I've had some impeccable guitars pass through my hands to validate my preferences.
And whether Collings offers Redwood or not, it's a bloody fine tonewood and ranks as my personal favorite. :cool: |
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