#Collings ukelele series

In addition to making the A and F body shapes, Collings also makes f-hole and oval hole mandolins. Although it's the same width and depth as the OM, the longer body typically produces more bass and overall volume.Ĭollings began producing mandolins in 1999, and offers A-style and F-style mandolins as well as mandolas. 000 Series: The 12-fret 000 has the same general appearance as the Collings 00, but in a larger size with longer string scale.Its dimensions are similar to a typical classical guitar, with a slotted headstock and small pyramid bridge. This guitar shape was first designed around the time of the Civil War.

00 Series: Collings offers the 00 in its original, 12-fret configuration.

DS Series: The original 12-fret dreadnought shape.

C10 Series: Based on parlor guitars first introduced around the same time as the OM, the Collings C10 is a leaner alternative, with the narrow waist and small upper bout.

SJs, especially examples in maple, typically have a more pronounced midrange response when compared to a dreadnought. Although the 16 inch lower bout is slightly wider than a dreadnought, and the sides almost as deep, the tight curve at the waist creates in a very different sound chamber.

SJ Series: The SJ is Collings' version of what is commonly called a small Jumbo.

CJ Series: The Collings Jumbo is their version of the classic slope-shouldered dreadnought.

12 1/2 inches wide in the lower bout with a 24 1/8 inch scale.

Baby Series: Collings' smallest guitar, approximately a 3/4 size version of their OM.

0 Series: With the exception of the Baby, the 0 is Collings' smallest guitar and is offered with the same shorter scale found on the 12-fret 00.

#Collings ukelele series

00 Series: With a short scale the 14-fret 00 series is a smaller and often more comfortable alternative to the OM that manages to provide similar volume and range.

OM Series: The 'OM' (for Orchestra Model) is a 14-fret model that is popular with fingerstyle guitar soloists who choose to play on steel strings.

Collings D Series guitars are often employed by bluegrass flat pickers who must compete with inherently louder instruments such as banjos and fiddles.

D Series: The square-shouldered 14-fret dreadnought is the most popular steel-string acoustic guitar body shape in the world.

These guitars are sold under the 'Waterloo' brand. In 2014, it was announced that the company would be making a guitar based on a currently popular Depression-era design. As of May 2012 the company had about 85 employees and manufactured six to seven acoustic guitars, three electric guitars, two mandolins, and two ukuleles per day. Their mandolins are highly regarded they 'more or less rule in the bluegrass market' in the United States. In addition to acoustic and electric guitars, the company makes mandolins and ukuleles. Īt the 2006 summer NAMM show, the company moved into the electric guitar market, releasing three models: the I-35, the CL (City Limits), and the 290. Two years later he hired his first employee and the company began to grow. Collings soon received considerable attention from other guitar stores as well as magazines for his guitars. George Gruhn, a vintage-guitar collector and seller in Nashville hired Collings to make 25 guitars in 1987. A few years later he continued on his own and took the craft more seriously, moving into a one-stall garage shop.

He started out sharing work space with fellow luthiers Tom Ellis, a builder of mandolins, and Mike Stevens. In the early 1980s, Collings intended to move to San Diego, California, but never made it further than Austin, Texas. Lovett was impressed with the sounds of Collings guitars and purchased the 29th guitar he built.

Three years later he met musician Lyle Lovett, then a college student, who interviewed the budding guitar builder for the school newspaper, Collings told Texas Monthly. In 1975 he moved to Houston, Texas, where he worked as an engineer with a pipeline and oil field equipment company by day and a guitar builder by night. At the same time he built his first guitar. Bill Collings attended Ohio University as a pre-med student in the early 1970s, but dropped out to work in a machine shop for five years.