Collings Guitars
Collings OM1ESS Acoustic Guitar
Listed by The Twelfth Fret · Toronto, ON
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Specs
- Top
- Engelmann
- Back / Sides
- Mahogany
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- Om
- Scale length
- 24.875"
- Nut width
- 1.69"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- New
About Collings Guitars
Collings Guitars come out of Austin, Texas — a shop that started in a Houston apartment in 1973 and grew into something close to an institution. Bill Collings was the kind of builder who would reject a guitar over a tolerance most players couldn't feel, and that standard became a Collings trademark: crisp, articulate, pin-sharp tone that records beautifully and shows up in studios as often as on stages. Bill died in 2017, but the team he trained kept building, and the line has held — Collings still means what it has always meant.
About The Twelfth Fret
The Twelfth Fret has been a Toronto institution since 1977, when Grant MacNeill and Dan Charman opened it on Kingston Road; they moved to their current east-end Danforth Avenue building in 2000. The shop describes itself as "instrument builders who also sell guitars" — a six-luthier workshop is the spine of the business, and the retail catalog grew around it. Boutique acoustics arrived in the 1990s, and today's catalog leans heavy on Canadian-made Boucher and Larrivée Master Series alongside Collings, Huss & Dalton, Lowden, and Bourgeois — a rare in-person destination for Quebec and Ontario boutique builds.
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