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The Collings DS1 is a masterfully crafted slope-shoulder acoustic that blends vintage-inspired warmth with Collings' renowned precision, responsiveness, and attention to detail. Featuring a torrefied (baked) Sitka spruce top paired with beautifully figured walnut back and sides, this instrument delivers an exceptional balance of clarity, warmth, and dynamic range. The baked top provides the openness and mature tonal character of a well-played vintage guitar, while the walnut body adds focused lows, articulate mids, and sparkling highs.
A Honduran mahogany neck with a comfortable Modified V profile offers a substantial yet highly playable feel, while the ebony fingerboard and bridge contribute to the guitar's outstanding note definition and sustain. Internally, Collings' pre-war inspired scalloped X-bracing maximizes resonance and responsiveness, making the DS1 equally at home for fingerstyle playing, flatpicking, and vocal accompaniment.
Elegant appointments include tortoise binding, ebony fittings with mother-of-pearl accents, a slotted peghead with ebony veneer and pearl Collings logo, and premium Waverly tuners. Finished in high-gloss nitrocellulose lacquer and supplied with a deluxe hardshell case, this DS1 exemplifies the craftsmanship, tone, and playability that have made Collings one of the most respected names in acoustic guitars.
Other specifications include:
- Top Baked Sitka spruce
- Back & Sides Figured Walnut
- Neck Honduran mahogany
- Body Binding Tortoise with b/w/b/w top purfling
- Fingerboard Binding None
- Peghead Binding None
- Bridge Ebony belly-style with 2 3/8" spacing
- Fingerboard Ebony with MOP long dots
- Fingerboard Radius 14" - 26" compound
- Bridge Pins/End Pin Ebony with MOP dot
- Nut Bone, 1 13/16"
- Saddle Bone, drop-in
- Neck Profile Modified V
- Peghead Profile Tapered slotted square with volute
- Neck Joint Mortise & tenon hybrid
- Truss Rod Fully adjustable
- Frets Medium 18% nickel-silver
- Peghead Veneer Ebony with MOP Collings logo
- Tuners Nickel Waverly
- Backstrip 1-style (Walnut)
- Rosette b/w Purfling
- Scale Length 25 1/2"
- Brace Material Sitka spruce
- Brace Pattern Pre-war scalloped X-brace
- Body Finish High gloss nitrocellulose lacquer
- Neck Finish High gloss polyester resin
- Pickguard Tortoise
- Strings D'Addario EJ-17 (.013"- .056")
- Case Deluxe hardshell case
- 4 lbs 11 oz
- #36816
For more information about the Collings DS1 Baked, please contact us.
- Manufacturer
- Collings
- Body Style
- Slope Shoulder
- Model
- DS1
- Actual Weight
- 4.11
- Series
- Standard
- Color
- Natural
- Condition
- Brand New
- Strings
- 6
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The Collings DS1 is a masterfully crafted slope-shoulder acoustic that blends vintage-inspired warmth with Collings' renowned precision, responsiveness, and attention to detail. Featuring a torrefied (baked) Sitka spruce top paired with beautifully figured walnut back and sides, this instrument delivers an exceptional balance of clarity, warmth, and dynamic range. The baked top provides the openness and mature tonal character of a well-played vintage guitar, while the walnut body adds focused lows, articulate mids, and sparkling highs.
A Honduran mahogany neck with a comfortable Modified V profile offers a substantial yet highly playable feel, while the ebony fingerboard and bridge contribute to the guitar's outstanding note definition and sustain. Internally, Collings' pre-war inspired scalloped X-bracing maximizes resonance and responsiveness, making the DS1 equally at home for fingerstyle playing, flatpicking, and vocal accompaniment.
Elegant appointments include tortoise binding, ebony fittings with mother-of-pearl accents, a slotted peghead with ebony veneer and pearl Collings logo, and premium Waverly tuners. Finished in high-gloss nitrocellulose lacquer and supplied with a deluxe hardshell case, this DS1 exemplifies the craftsmanship, tone, and playability that have made Collings one of the most respected names in acoustic guitars.
Other specifications include:
- Top Baked Sitka spruce
- Back & Sides Figured Walnut
- Neck Honduran mahogany
- Body Binding Tortoise with b/w/b/w top purfling
- Fingerboard Binding None
- Peghead Binding None
- Bridge Ebony belly-style with 2 3/8" spacing
- Fingerboard Ebony with MOP long dots
- Fingerboard Radius 14" - 26" compound
- Bridge Pins/End Pin Ebony with MOP dot
- Nut Bone, 1 13/16"
- Saddle Bone, drop-in
- Neck Profile Modified V
- Peghead Profile Tapered slotted square with volute
- Neck Joint Mortise & tenon hybrid
- Truss Rod Fully adjustable
- Frets Medium 18% nickel-silver
- Peghead Veneer Ebony with MOP Collings logo
- Tuners Nickel Waverly
- Backstrip 1-style (Walnut)
- Rosette b/w Purfling
- Scale Length 25 1/2"
- Brace Material Sitka spruce
- Brace Pattern Pre-war scalloped X-brace
- Body Finish High gloss nitrocellulose lacquer
- Neck Finish High gloss polyester resin
- Pickguard Tortoise
- Strings D'Addario EJ-17 (.013"- .056")
- Case Deluxe hardshell case
- 4 lbs 11 oz
- #36816
For more information about the Collings DS1 Baked, please contact us.
- Manufacturer
- Collings
- Body Style
- Slope Shoulder
- Model
- DS1
- Actual Weight
- 4.11
- Series
- Standard
- Color
- Natural
- Condition
- Brand New
- Strings
- 6
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