Acoustics

Dreadnought fans craving an easy-playing option are bound to love the soft feel of the 24-7/8-inch-scale-length neck featured on the cutaway 310ce. Strummers and flatpickers will love the clear projection and top-end brightness of the solid sapele/Sitka spruce tonewood pairing, while the Dreadnought body’s wide waist produces a strong low end and focused midrange. Aesthetic details include black binding, a black pickguard, Italian acrylic small diamond fretboard inlays, and satin-finish back and sides with a gloss top. The guitar comes performance-ready with Taylor’s Expression System 2 pickup, and ships in a Taylor deluxe hardshell case.

Walnut, that's lovely tree, don't you think? It produces wonderful food, provides shade, and you can make fantastic guitars with them. We have a brand new 524CE LTD, Limited Edition model. There's not many of these and they are so good. It is a cutaway model, all walnut, Grand Auditorium size, mother of pearl fretboard inlays, and full gloss finish. It has the Expression System 2 pickup system. Sounds beautiful. It reminds me in some ways of an all mahogany guitar. It's unique in every way. It's an absolute stunner, a gorgeous instrument. Great playing, great sounding, this is a real winner. Comes with hard case.

Walnut, that's lovely tree, don't you think? It produces wonderful food, provides shade, and you can make fantastic guitars with them. We have a brand new 524CE LTD, Limited Edition model. There's not many of these and they are so good. It is a cutaway model, all walnut, Grand Auditorium size, mother of pearl fretboard inlays, and full gloss finish. It has the Expression System 2 pickup system. Sounds beautiful. It reminds me in some ways of an all mahogany guitar. It's unique in every way. It's an absolute stunner, a gorgeous instrument. Great playing, great sounding, this is a real winner. Comes with hard case.

Upgraded with Torrified Sitka Spruce top and Adirondack Braces.

-Torrefied Sitka Spruce Top
-Mahogany back & sides
-Tortoise-style binding
-Adirondack Braces
-Pre-war scalloped bracing
-Tortoise-style pickguard
-High gloss nitrocellulose lacquer finish
-Mahogany neck
-Ebony fingerboard and bridge
-Ebony peghead overlay
-Inlaid Collings Logo
-Inlaid dot fingerboard markers
-Fully adjustable truss rod
-Bone nut and drop-in saddle
-Ebony bridge pins and end pin
-Nickel Waverly tuners
-Hardshell Case
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Top: Torrefied Sitka Spruce
Back & Sides: Honduran mahogany
Neck: Honduran mahogany
Body Binding: Tortoise with b/w/b/w top purfling
Bridge: Ebony belly-style with 2 3/16" spacing
Fingerboard: Ebony with MOP short dots
Bridge Pins/End Pin: Ebony with MOP dot
Nut: Bone
Nut Width: 1 3/4"
Saddle: Bone, drop-in
Neck Profile: Modified V
Peghead Profile: Tapered square
Neck Joint: Mortise & tenon hybrid
Truss Rod: Fully adjustable
Frets: Medium 18% nickel-silver
Peghead Veneer: Ebony with MOP Collings logo
Tuners: Nickel Waverly (16:1 ratio)
Backstrip: 1-style (Walnut)
Rosette: b/w Purfling
Scale Length: 25 1/2"
Brace Material: Adirondack Spruce
Brace Pattern: Pre-war scalloped X-brace
Fingerboard Radius: 14" - 26" compound
Body Finish: High gloss nitrocellulose lacquer
Neck Finish: High gloss polyester resin
Pickguard: Tortoise
Strings: D'Addario EJ-16 (.012"- .053")
Case: Collings Traditional Handcrafted Case
Serial Number: 27820

Hawaiian koa’s captivating beauty is matched by a tone that blossoms over time, especially in the midrange. Its voice is bright and focused, with warm overtones that slowly emerge, adding sweetness and depth. Premium all-wood appointments, led by the Island Vine fretboard inlay, celebrate the wood’s natural appeal.

Designed in collaboration with guitarist extraordinaire John Jorgenson. Since John’s mastery isn’t confined to a single musical genre, his main concern was sonic flexibility.
The JJ325SRC dreadnought features a solid spruce top with bubinga back and sides. The guitar is voiced to cover a broad tonal spectrum with depth for power and a shimmering upper midrange for articulation and clarity and features a gloss red finish, JJ inlay at the 12th fret and gold tuners with ivory buttons on the keys.
Includes Takamine’s CT4B II preamp system paired with the unique Palathetic under-saddle pickup for peerless amplified response. The highly acclaimed CT4B II preamp system with three-band EQ, volume control and built-in tuner.

Chris Ballentine is a local Memphis luthier with over 12 years experience designing and building guitars. Having always been an artist, guitar building is yet another outlet for his creative expansion. His technical and engineering background, along with a strong desire to express his creativity and love for the guitar, inspired him to enter the world of luthierie and the art of combining musical tone with asthetic beauty.

This gorgeous sounding Sitka/Rosewood creation is as beautiful to play and hear, as it is to look at.

Featuring:
Sitka Spruce Top
Indian Rosewood Back & Sides
Ebony Fingerboard
African Blackwood Bridge
Bone Nut & Saddle
Ebony/Koa Binding
Abalone Inlay
Sperzel Locking Tuners
Honduran Mahogany Neck
Hardshell Case

Super limited edition Taylor 514ce cutaway Grand Auditorium featuring walnut back and sides, torrefied Sitka spruce top, Performance bracing with relief rout, mother-of-pearl Century fretboard inlays, and other standard 500 Series appointments: gloss-finish body, faux tortoise binding, single-ring ivoroid/faux tortoise rosette, Taylor nickel tuners, and Expression System 2 electronics. Includes a Limited Edition label and ships in a Taylor deluxe hardshell case.

The Bourgeois Large Soundhole D incorporates many of the features that bluegrass flatpickers search for in those "Holy Grail" pre-war dreadnoughts. The enlarged soundhole, special rosette, custom pickguard and blank, bound 21-fret fingerboard capture the proper authentic aura for this specialty model. Dana has also incorporated the hallmarks of his own current designs, including Aged Tone torrefied top, braces and Aged Tone finish. The result is a more of a tribute than a replica, and Bourgeois feels that it makes the perfect bluegrass guitar. Many have remarked that these Large Soundhole Ds are louder and slightly more open than their standard dreadnoughts, while still maintaining their signature balance and clarity. These models have a strikingly "vintage" sound that is sure to thrill many a flatpicker dreaming of owning their own pre-war "bone".

Who has not seen the Andy Griffith show? If you raised your hand, go watch them all right now, then we'll talk. You back? Excellent. Remember Andy playing a Martin D-18 without a pickguard? Well, here's the story on that: Andy was doing the great movie, "A Face In The Crowd", and they needed a fancy guitar for the movie, so the prop man bought a new D-18 (this was the 50's), painted it black, put rhinestones all over it, and had "Lonesome Rhodes" painted on the front.  After filming, Andy stole the guitar...well, he borrowed it. He took it home, took all the finish off, and re-finished it in natural. He later took the guitar to New York, where John D'Angelico refinished it professionally for him. Andy liked the way it looked without the pickguard, so he kept it that way.  Pretty cool, right? The guitar we have is quite reminiscent of Andy's guitar.  We have a 1967 Martin D-18 that was special ordered without a pickguard. It came from the factory like that. A rare special order. Perhaps the original owner was an Andy fan. It's in very good condition, showing some playing wear. There is a small area on the upper bout where it looks like the guitar was bumped. The neckset is marginal; it's playable as-is, but would benefit greatly from a neckset. The frets are playable, but again, it would benefit from a refret. It is really a great sounding guitar. It has the vintage Martin D-18 tone...one of the most universally applicable and infinitely versatile tones. It is one of the coolest 60's Martin D 18 models I've seen in a long time. Comes with non original hard case.