Collings 290 Tobacco Sunburst #231808
Collings guitar are some of the most highly-regarded instruments in the world. If you're lucky enough to have had the opportunity to play one, you'll know why their guitars are so sought after.
Meticulous build quality. Made using premium seasoned tone woods and handbuilt in Austin, Texas by highly skilled experienced luthiers.
Named for the scenic 290 highway that winds past the Collings shop through the Texas Hill Country, the 290 is a modern day tribute to the original working man’s rock’n’roll guitar. A solid mahogany body and neck are complimented by a pair of Lollar Soap Bar P90 pickups for a tone that shows off the amazing harmonic range and dynamics of this often underrated configuration.
Specifications:
- Construction: Solid body single cutaway
- Body: Honduran mahogany
- Neck: Honduran mahogany
- Body Binding: None
- Fingerboard Binding: None
- Peghead Binding: None
- Bridge: Kluson ABR-1 (Nickel-plated Zinc)
- Tailpiece: Kluson Stop Tailpiece (Nickel-plated Zinc, Steel Studs)
- Fingerboard: Rosewood w/ ivoroid long dots (5mm non-tapered)
- Fingerboard Radius: 12"
- Pickups: Lollar P90
- Pots/Caps: DiMarzio 500K / Jupiter Vintage Yellow
- Knobs: Black top hat
- Nut: 1 11/16″
- Scale Length: 24 7/8″
- Neck Joint: Extra long mortise & tenon
- Frets: Medium 18% nickel-silver
- Peghead Veneer: Ebony w/ MOP Collings logo
- Peghead Profile: Haircut
- Tuners: Nickel Gotoh w/ Collings logo
- Wiring: 50s style
- Guitar Finish: High gloss nitrocellulose lacquer
- Pickguard Tortoise
- Truss Rod Cover: Tortoise with 290 logo
- Neck Profile C Shape (0.865″ @ 1st Fret / 0.967″ @ 9th Fret)
- Body Length 17″
- Body Depth 1 5/8″
- Lower Bout Width 13 1/2″
- Total Length 38 1/2″
- Strings D’Addario NYXL1149 (.011″ – .049″)
- Case Deluxe Hardshell case by Ameritage
***PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACUTAL GUITAR IN STOCK***