![]() ![]() The top is made from very good Sitka spruce, my favorite top wood for mahogany, when it comes to accentuating its strength and subtle warmth. The back and sides are made out of mahogany, and that provides a dollop of richness to the otherwise clear and cheerful voice of this beautiful piece of luthiery. I got plenty of Collings clarity all right, but I felt plenty of power in the bridle, and I was happily surprised by the warm presence rising from under the low-mids, like the comforting waft of just-baked biscuits filling a ranch house kitchen. Having not looked at the tag when I first played this Collings C10 Deluxe Custom, I assumed its pale blue body was made out of maple, and that I would hear clear, prancing top notes with dry open prairie behind them. This Duded Up Hombre Is No Sissified Dandy This was the 418th guitar built by Bill Collings. Specs for this Collings C10 DLX include: C-10 body shape, slightly smaller than a Gibson L-00 mahogany back and sides finished in Robin Egg Blue Sitka spruce top with Vintage White toner long-scale 1-3/4″ mahogany neck, with a low, round, C shape profile ebony fingerboard with Broken Glass fret markers ebony vintage straight bridge 2-3/16″ string spacing vintage grained ivoroid neck and body binding glimmering white pearloid pickguard and headstock overlay bone nut and compensated saddle ivoroid bridge pins with jeweled dots of sapphire blue ![]() This one of kind Collings C10 sounds like it looks – magnificent Bringing new meaning to the claim that Collings is the Cadillac of acoustic guitars Part of the collection of the late Stan Jay, founder of the Mandolin Brothers Dream Fulfillment Center, this 1993 guitar was inspired by Stan’s own 1955 Cadillac convertible ![]()
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