Music Emporium’s Limited Edition Collings Guitars
February 4th, 2008
What do you give someone for their 40th anniversary? Apparently, it’s snakewood! We don’t usually post in the blog about news or events taking place at guitar stores, but this isn’t your typical in-store performance, so here goes: The Music Emporium, the Lexington, Massachusetts music institution is celebrating their 40th anniversary. To celebrate, they’ve commissioned a limited run of Collings Guitars featuring a pretty amazing set of woods and appointments. Each guitar boasts: an Adirondack spruce top and bracing; a varnish finish; a snakewood fingerboard, bridge and binding (a first for any Collings) and some amazing inlays from artist Doug Unger on the headstock. You can of course choose between a D, OM, CJ, 000 or 01 body size (they’ve made a few of each). Price on these beauties is $10,475 and up and we hear the limited run is selling out extremely fast. Call Stu or the rest of the gang over at Music Emporium if you want to get in line. -JV
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1. Weekend Flatpicker | March 20th, 2008 at 9:31 am
Pictures of the first of the 40th Anniversary Collings to be finished are now up on The Music Emporium’s site (www.themusicemporium.com). This guitar is in a class by itself in terms of the inlay, the wood and the snakewood appointments. Like nothing else I’ve ever seen (the peghead and fretboard inlay found on the standard 42 and 45 level Martins (and Collings, frankly) pale in comparison.
Wow…
2. Eric Jones | April 1st, 2008 at 8:11 am
This event sounds like the making of a future photo-ladened article in the FJ!
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