Collings OM1JL Julian Lage Model #36964
Designed in collaboration with Bill Collings and guitarist Julian Lage, the OM1 JL is a highly personal take on the Collings Traditional Series, combining the company's exceptional build quality with a specification shaped around Lage's own preferences. Its traditional voicing emphasises a strong fundamental tone, warm, rounded highs, solid projection and a crisp, articulate attack, giving the guitar a wonderfully musical and responsive character.
Although it shares its basic specifications with the OM1 T, the OM1 JL has one particularly distinctive feature — its neck. The profile was carefully modelled on Julian Lage's much-loved 1939 Martin 000-18, the guitar heard on his 2015 solo album World's Fair and one that he played extensively for many years. The original Martin's neck had developed a distinctive, asymmetric shape through decades of playing, and Collings digitally analysed its dimensions to recreate that worn-in feel. The result is a remarkably comfortable and characterful neck, paired with a 1 11/16" nut and Collings' standard 25½" scale length. It's a beautifully understated and highly individual Collings, with a voice and feel that make it particularly special.
Specifications:
- Top: Sitka spruce
- Back & Sides: Honduran mahogany
- Construction: Traditional Series build and voicing
- Neck: Honduran mahogany
- Neck Profile: Custom JL carve, based on Julian Lage's 1939 Martin 000-18
- Nut Width: 1 11/16"
- Fingerboard: Ebony with gold MOP short-dot inlays
- Fingerboard Radius: 14"–26" compound
- Scale Length: 25½"
- Frets: Medium 18% nickel-silver
- Bridge: Ebony belly-style, 2 3/16" string spacing
- Nut: Bone
- Saddle: Bone, drop-in
- Bridge Pins: Ebony with MOP dots
- Bracing: Custom Traditional Series pre-war scalloped X-brace
- Brace Material: Sitka spruce
- Body Binding: Tortoise with custom wood purflings
- Rosette: Custom wood
- Pickguard: Tortoise
- Backstrip: 1-style walnut
- Peghead Veneer: Ebony with gold MOP Collings script logo
- Tuners: Relic nickel Waverly with vintage oval buttons, 16:1 ratio
- Body Finish: Custom satin nitrocellulose lacquer
- Neck Finish: Custom satin nitrocellulose lacquer
- Neck Joint: Mortise & tenon hybrid
- Truss Rod: Fully adjustable
- Body Width: 15"
- Body Length: 19¼"
- Body Depth: 4⅛"
- Total Length: 39½"
- Strings: D'Addario NB1253 (.012"–.053")
- Case: Deluxe hardshell case
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