McCollum Megan 2008, Natural

About McCollum Guitars

McCollum Guitars were built by Lance McCollum in Sebastopol, California, between 1995 and 2009 — about 316 instruments in total. Lance passed away in 2009, so every McCollum guitar on the market today is preowned, rare, and desired. The work covered an unusual breadth for a single builder: harp guitars, baritones, twelve-strings, the Kayleigh model, and the small-bodied Meaghan that anchors his fingerstyle reputation. Across the line, players talk about Lance's guitars in the same language — precise string-to-string balance, surprising sustain for the body size, signature ebony fingerboards with a distinctive "S" cut at the soundhole, and fit and finish that holds up twenty-plus years on. McCollums turn up at Dream Guitars, Carter Vintage, and Willcutt occasionally; when they appear, they tend not to sit long.

About Carter Vintage Guitars

Carter Vintage Guitars sits at 606 8th Avenue South in Nashville, opened November 2012 by Walter and Christie Carter — each with twenty-five years in the vintage guitar business before they put their names on a shop. Walter spent a decade as Gibson's in-house historian and has authored a dozen books on vintage instruments, including "Gibson: 100 Years of an American Icon" and "Gruhn's Guide to Vintage Guitars"; Christie's focus was the high-end vintage market. The shop's reputation is built on full-disclosure transparency around condition, originality, and provenance — a standard set early and still held to. The catalog leads with vintage — pre-war Martins, original-finish Gibsons, vintage Fender — but the new-boutique acoustic side runs deep alongside it: Collings, Bourgeois, Santa Cruz, Huss & Dalton, Goodall, McPherson, Lowden, and Furch are anchor brands, with a rotating long tail of smaller US luthiers (Boucher, Pre-War Guitars Co., Beauregard, Sexauer, Tippin, Kevin Ryan, and others) passing through. Carter became part of TNAG Global in 2022 — the parent holding company that also acquired Norman's Rare Guitars in early 2026 — but day-to-day curation has stayed centered on the original Carter team. Worldwide shipping; in-person browsing on 8th Avenue South.

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