Collings D1A Hill Country - Adirondack Spruce & Honduran Mahogany #36065
Serial: 36065
Weight: 4 lbs 7 oz
$9,475.00
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The Collings DS1A Hill Country in Adirondack spruce and Honduran mahogany is a beautifully crafted acoustic guitar that unites traditional tonewood selection, refined workmanship, and a distinctive approach to acoustic voicing. Its Adirondack spruce top is paired with Honduran mahogany back and sides, creating a tonal palette celebrated for its clarity, warmth, articulation, and dynamic range. Built and voiced according to the Hill Country approach, the instrument features Sitka spruce bracing in a Hill Country scalloped X-brace pattern with an abbreviated soundboard graft, also known as a tongue brace. This carefully considered construction encourages an expressive response, allowing individual notes to ring with definition while chords unfold with depth and natural resonance. At just 4 pounds, 5 ounces, the DS1A Hill Country offers an appealing sense of lightness and responsiveness, ready to accompany delicate fingerpicking, intricate melodic passages, and full, confident strumming.
The Honduran mahogany neck is shaped to the DS Hill Country profile and joined to the body with a hybrid mortise-and-tenon construction, combining thoughtful engineering with a traditional feel. Its 25 1/2-inch scale length and 1 3/4-inch aged bone nut provide a familiar foundation for precise fretting and comfortable string spacing, while the compound 14-inch to 26-inch fingerboard radius accommodates a fluid playing experience across the neck. The ebony fingerboard is adorned with gold mother-of-pearl dots and finished with elegant ebony binding, complemented by medium 18% nickel-silver frets and a fully adjustable truss rod. At the headstock, a tapered slotted square profile with a volute lends the guitar a distinctive vintage character. An ebony peghead veneer remains free of a front-facing Collings logo, with the logo discreetly stamped on the reverse, while relic nickel Waverly tuners complete the understated, period-inspired aesthetic.
Every detail of the DS1A Hill Country reflects a considered balance of beauty and utility. Tortoise body binding frames the natural wood with rich, warm contrast, while the ebony belly-style bridge features 2 5/16-inch string spacing, ebony bridge pins and end pin, and an aged bone cut-through saddle. The aged bone nut further complements the instrument's traditional appointments, and a walnut 1-style backstrip provides a subtle decorative accent along the rear of the body. A hand-poured tortoise pickguard is paired with a matching rosette ring, wedge, and heel cap, bringing visual continuity to the design without overwhelming the natural elegance of the spruce and mahogany. Both the body and neck receive a high-gloss, ultra-thin nitrocellulose lacquer finish, preserving the woods' visual character while giving the instrument a refined, lustrous presentation. The result is a guitar whose details reward close inspection, from the slotted headstock and ebony appointments to the carefully coordinated tortoise accents.
Strung with D'Addario EJ-17 strings in .013-inch to .056-inch gauges, the Collings DS1A Hill Country is equipped for a broad and expressive range of musical styles, offering the player a responsive platform for nuanced dynamics, articulate note separation, and richly voiced chords. Its combination of Adirondack spruce, Honduran mahogany, Hill Country construction, and traditional materials gives the instrument a character rooted in acoustic heritage while retaining the precision and consistency expected of exceptional modern craftsmanship. The restrained elegance of its appointments complements its musical purpose, creating an instrument that feels equally at home in an intimate fingerstyle performance, a singer-songwriter arrangement, or a more robust acoustic setting. Delivered in a deluxe hardshell case, this Collings DS1A Hill Country is a compelling expression of thoughtful design and meticulous construction, made for the discerning player who values tonal character, lasting comfort, and the enduring inspiration of a finely built acoustic guitar.
Other specifications include:
- Top Adirondack spruce
- Back & Sides Honduran mahogany
- Construction Hill Country Build and Voicing
- Neck Honduran mahogany
- Body Binding Tortoise
- Fingerboard Binding Ebony
- Peghead Binding None
- Bridge Ebony belly-style with 2 5/16" spacing
- Fingerboard Ebony with gold MOP dots
- Fingerboard Radius 14" - 26" compound
- Bridge Pins/End Pin Ebony
- Nut Aged bone, 1 3/4"
- Saddle Aged bone, cutthrough
- Neck Profile DS Hill Country
- 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 no Collings Logo on front and stamped logo on back
- Tuners Relic Nickel Waverly
- Backstrip 1-style (walnut)
- Rosette Hand-poured ring from matching pickguard set
- Scale Length 25 1/2"
- Brace Material Sitka spruce
- Brace Pattern Hill Country scalloped X-brace (abbreviated soundboard graft (tongue brace))
- Body Finish High gloss ultra-thin nitrocellulose lacquer
- Neck Finish High gloss ultra-thin nitrocellulose lacquer
- Pickguard Hand-poured tortoise w/ matching rosette ring, wedge, and heel cap
- Strings D'Addario EJ-17 (.013"- .056")
- Case Deluxe hardshell case
- 4 lbs 5 oz
- #37120
For more information about the Collings instrument, please contact us.
- Manufacturer
- Collings
- Body Style
- Dreadnought
- Model
- DS1A HC
- Actual Weight
- 4.5
- Series
- Standard
- Color
- Natural
- Condition
- Brand New
- Strings
- 6
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SKU: 37120
Weight:
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Collings DS1A Hill Country - Adirondack Spruce & Honduran Mahogany #37120
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The Collings DS1A Hill Country in Adirondack spruce and Honduran mahogany is a beautifully crafted acoustic guitar that unites traditional tonewood selection, refined workmanship, and a distinctive approach to acoustic voicing. Its Adirondack spruce top is paired with Honduran mahogany back and sides, creating a tonal palette celebrated for its clarity, warmth, articulation, and dynamic range. Built and voiced according to the Hill Country approach, the instrument features Sitka spruce bracing in a Hill Country scalloped X-brace pattern with an abbreviated soundboard graft, also known as a tongue brace. This carefully considered construction encourages an expressive response, allowing individual notes to ring with definition while chords unfold with depth and natural resonance. At just 4 pounds, 5 ounces, the DS1A Hill Country offers an appealing sense of lightness and responsiveness, ready to accompany delicate fingerpicking, intricate melodic passages, and full, confident strumming.
The Honduran mahogany neck is shaped to the DS Hill Country profile and joined to the body with a hybrid mortise-and-tenon construction, combining thoughtful engineering with a traditional feel. Its 25 1/2-inch scale length and 1 3/4-inch aged bone nut provide a familiar foundation for precise fretting and comfortable string spacing, while the compound 14-inch to 26-inch fingerboard radius accommodates a fluid playing experience across the neck. The ebony fingerboard is adorned with gold mother-of-pearl dots and finished with elegant ebony binding, complemented by medium 18% nickel-silver frets and a fully adjustable truss rod. At the headstock, a tapered slotted square profile with a volute lends the guitar a distinctive vintage character. An ebony peghead veneer remains free of a front-facing Collings logo, with the logo discreetly stamped on the reverse, while relic nickel Waverly tuners complete the understated, period-inspired aesthetic.
Every detail of the DS1A Hill Country reflects a considered balance of beauty and utility. Tortoise body binding frames the natural wood with rich, warm contrast, while the ebony belly-style bridge features 2 5/16-inch string spacing, ebony bridge pins and end pin, and an aged bone cut-through saddle. The aged bone nut further complements the instrument's traditional appointments, and a walnut 1-style backstrip provides a subtle decorative accent along the rear of the body. A hand-poured tortoise pickguard is paired with a matching rosette ring, wedge, and heel cap, bringing visual continuity to the design without overwhelming the natural elegance of the spruce and mahogany. Both the body and neck receive a high-gloss, ultra-thin nitrocellulose lacquer finish, preserving the woods' visual character while giving the instrument a refined, lustrous presentation. The result is a guitar whose details reward close inspection, from the slotted headstock and ebony appointments to the carefully coordinated tortoise accents.
Strung with D'Addario EJ-17 strings in .013-inch to .056-inch gauges, the Collings DS1A Hill Country is equipped for a broad and expressive range of musical styles, offering the player a responsive platform for nuanced dynamics, articulate note separation, and richly voiced chords. Its combination of Adirondack spruce, Honduran mahogany, Hill Country construction, and traditional materials gives the instrument a character rooted in acoustic heritage while retaining the precision and consistency expected of exceptional modern craftsmanship. The restrained elegance of its appointments complements its musical purpose, creating an instrument that feels equally at home in an intimate fingerstyle performance, a singer-songwriter arrangement, or a more robust acoustic setting. Delivered in a deluxe hardshell case, this Collings DS1A Hill Country is a compelling expression of thoughtful design and meticulous construction, made for the discerning player who values tonal character, lasting comfort, and the enduring inspiration of a finely built acoustic guitar.
Other specifications include:
- Top Adirondack spruce
- Back & Sides Honduran mahogany
- Construction Hill Country Build and Voicing
- Neck Honduran mahogany
- Body Binding Tortoise
- Fingerboard Binding Ebony
- Peghead Binding None
- Bridge Ebony belly-style with 2 5/16" spacing
- Fingerboard Ebony with gold MOP dots
- Fingerboard Radius 14" - 26" compound
- Bridge Pins/End Pin Ebony
- Nut Aged bone, 1 3/4"
- Saddle Aged bone, cutthrough
- Neck Profile DS Hill Country
- 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 no Collings Logo on front and stamped logo on back
- Tuners Relic Nickel Waverly
- Backstrip 1-style (walnut)
- Rosette Hand-poured ring from matching pickguard set
- Scale Length 25 1/2"
- Brace Material Sitka spruce
- Brace Pattern Hill Country scalloped X-brace (abbreviated soundboard graft (tongue brace))
- Body Finish High gloss ultra-thin nitrocellulose lacquer
- Neck Finish High gloss ultra-thin nitrocellulose lacquer
- Pickguard Hand-poured tortoise w/ matching rosette ring, wedge, and heel cap
- Strings D'Addario EJ-17 (.013"- .056")
- Case Deluxe hardshell case
- 4 lbs 5 oz
- #37120
For more information about the Collings instrument, please contact us.
- Manufacturer
- Collings
- Body Style
- Dreadnought
- Model
- DS1A HC
- Actual Weight
- 4.5
- Series
- Standard
- Color
- Natural
- Condition
- Brand New
- Strings
- 6
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