Austin 2006 Summer NAMM: Collings

July 15th, 2006

Howdy, ya’ll. The FJ staff is here in Austin, Texas for the Summer NAMM show and we’ll be posting photos of what we find over the next few days. I thought I’d start with a look at the new electrics introduced by Austin’s finest, Bill Collings. You can’t really see it in the photo on the left, but the knobs on the electric are turned out of ivoroid at Collings and look very elegant. I didn’t get to try the guitars because, as you can see in the middle shot, John Sebastian kept hogging them. These guitars were announced at the Anaheim NAMM Show in January, but I’m told they’re getting ready to start shipping them soon. The newest addition to the electric line is the solid-body “Junior” in the third photo with the dark sunburst. It also comes in a limed mahogany and a red mahogany finish. Oh, and all of the pickups are made by Jason Lollar, who was profiled in our now sold out first issue.-MJS

UPDATE: Here are few more shots from Collings. The one on the left shows a faded cherry “Junior” (Collings still hasn’t settled on a name); a row of prototype electrics at the Collings workshop; and a shot of the barbecue Bill Collings threw to show off his new workshop. We don’t have more shots
of the food because we were too busy eating it to photograph it.-MJS

Entry Filed under: Guitar, Summer NAMM 2006