It is hard to get a real sense of just how radical the CF-100E was in the early ’50s when it was introduced. This was the first production cutaway acoustic guitar with on-board pickup ever made for goodness sakes! Before this model came along, folks just had to stand as close to a microphone as possible to attempt to be heard when performing … and if you wanted to take a lead, you were definitely playing below the 14th fret!
MORE →The Gibson Songwriter Dlx Standard combines modern and vintage features into a very attractive and great sounding package! This guitar features a wider hand scalloped “X” bracing pattern based on the Advanced Jumbos from the 1930’s. This allows the top to vibrate more freely resulting in increased dynamic range. The tone wood pairing and body shape provide warm clear lows and articulate trebles with a good note fundamental.
MORE →The Modern Classic, where new and old features unit to create a superb flat top guitar. The J45 Modern Classic Custom guitar features a beautiful Adirondack spruce top, nitro cellulose finish, modern classic neck profile, nickel Grover tuners and an L.R.Baggs Element pickup. The pre-war Advanced Jumbo style bracing on this guitar helps to provide more bass response and volume while the classic Adirondack and Mahogany wood pairing is well balanced with a crisp note fundamental and lots of headroom. This guitar loves to be played loud and hard with the notes jumping to life and you dig in with your picking hand. The neck shape is a more medium to low elliptical profile which is very comfortable and easily facilitates fast flat picking passages. Available in natural or dark sunburst finish this guitar looks great and combines the best new and classic features!
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Some guitars have a well balance sound and some guitars have a lush three dimensional tone but not many can claim both! The new Sapele mahogany OM from the workshop of Sergei de Jonge does just that.
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When Bill Collings decides to make something, as we have all come to know, he doesn’t mess around! So when he decided to tackle the task of creating a ‘small jumbo’ that would offer a different sonic slant to the Collings tone palette, it was no surprise that the workmanship was immaculate and the wood selection of the highest standards.
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Historically, manufacturers of flattop steel string guitars have reserved mahogany for their plainer low end guitars … which in a lot of ways is a shame. In Dana Bourgeois’ words “Mahogany guitars are often looked at as poor cousins of rosewood guitars, but we politely disagree, dressing the Country Boy in classic appointments such as ebony fretboard and bridge, wooden rosette, tortoiseshell binding, vintage style top toner, and nickel Waverly tuners. We also consider it worthy of the same diamond volute that we use on the back of our Vintage Dreadnought peghead. In addition to selecting only the finest quartersawn and matched South American mahogany backs and sides, the Country Boy Dreadnought is appointed with an extra premium sitka spruce top.”
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