Music

The square-shouldered 14-fret dreadnought is the most popular steel-string acoustic guitar body shape in the world. While Collings is certainly not the only  company to build them, they bring a new tonal clarity to the depth and warmth usually associated with such a large, deep-bodied guitar. Although its bass response makes the dreadnought ideal for vocal accompaniment, Collings versions are also often employed by bluegrass flat-pickers who must compete with inherently louder instruments such as banjos and fiddles. The wide range of woods and neck sizes offered allow dreadnought fans to find a Collings model ideally suited to their playing style and tonal preference. Top Sitka spruce Back & Sides Eucalyptus Neck Honduran mahogany Body Binding Ivoroid with herringbone purfling Fingerboard Binding None Peghead Binding None Bridge Ebony belly-style with 2 3/16" spacing Fingerboard Ebony with abalone long diamond & squares Fingerboard Radius 14" - 26" compound Bridge Pins/End Pin Ebony with MOP dot Nut Bone, 1 11/16" Saddle Bone, drop-in Neck Profile Modified V Peghead Profile Square with volute Neck Joint Mortise & tenon hybrid Truss Rod Fully adjustable Frets Medium 18% nickel-silver Peghead Veneer Stained Exotic Ebony with MOP Collings logo Tuners Nickel Waverly Backstrip 2-style (Zipper) Rosette iv/tort/iv & b/w purflings Scale Length 25 1/2" Brace Material Sitka spruce Brace Pattern Pre-war scalloped X-brace Body Finish High gloss nitrocellulose lacquer Neck Finish Satin Pickguard Tortoise Strings D'Addario EJ-17 (.013"- .056") Case Deluxe hardshell case