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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Not if you consolidate.....1 great guitar instead of 2-3 very good ones. Quality over quantity and all that other BS that we spout to help out with our justifications. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | now, thats a beautiful 'burst... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Thanks....the flash from the camera made the center a tab more yellow looking than it actually is. In person it looks to be a bit more of a tobacco burst.
It sounds MUCH better than it looks! :D :D :D |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | The 2nd photo (guitar facing right) in the 2nd photo post comes closest to the true color....in real life it is just a bit darker. |
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| Beautiful! Congrats, can't wait to hear it. |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | SWEET GIT S28!
Hope that SWMBO does well in her recovery! |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Very nice Stephen, looks like it was worth waiting for! |
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Location: Cincinnati | One fine looking guitar, Stephen. Congrats. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Stephen, someday I need to come over and see for myself what it is about these Collings models that you and a few others are so enamored. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | it'll cost ya. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | The Professor has the money....."Baby You're a Rich Man"...and he has sometimes (but sometimes not) shown remarkable restraint after visiting!
Originally posted by Trader Jim:
Very nice Stephen, looks like it was worth waiting for! TJ, this isn't the one I special ordered and waited a year for.....that's the OM. This one I happened to stumble upon when I dropped in on a shop that surprisingly carried Collings. They had about 6 of them there (which is a pretty large amount for most dealers) and this one just blew me away with how it played and sounded. I had planned on ordering one very similar to this one except with a "varnish" finish but decided that there was no way it could sound $2000 (the varnish upcharge) better than this one, so I gritted my teeth, thought about it for about 15 minutes (while guarding it so no one else could touch it) and then pulled the trigger.
Now I gotta figure out how to pay for it!
This one is still being broken in and has maybe 15 hours on it. The OM has about 75-80 and it plays and feels so wonderful that at this point it is my go to guitar and the one I would keep if I had to sell all the others. Hopefully in about 3-4 months the CJ will be right there with it. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | ...and people say they can't keep up with my trades and sales. :rolleyes: |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | He said "hours" TJ, not "seconds". |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Oh,...sorry. |
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Location: PDX | Looks sweet. How do you like that size guitar?
I find Dreadnoughts to be a bit big to handle. This one looks smaller, maybe i should check out a guitar this size.
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Location: Phoenix AZ | CJ is a little bigger in the ass than a dread. That's where it gets the sound. If size is a concern (isn't it always) you may want to look at an SJ. Guarenteed not to slip off your knee. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Very nice, T. Enjoy. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | GH1, I find dreads a bit big and somewhat uncomfortable but you gotta have the trade off for the huge beautiful sound they put out. That's why I only have a couple. For comfort, I much prefer the OM size or the Collings C10 size.
If the majority of my time playing was spent standing it probably would not be nearly the issue that it is sitting. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | What's that mark on the binding? |
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Location: closely held secret | Tortoise shell binding. It's just a light spot, there's some on both pictures where it shows the top at an angle. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | No....the Wabbit just actually reads the posts.
I stated early on that it had tortoise binding and herringbone trim.
Jeff....you just need to come over and see it in person. |
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