Collings OM1 SB - Adridondack Braces - Western Shaded Top #5157

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Collings OM1 SB - Adridondack Braces - Western Shaded Top #5157 Item #35175
$6,455.00

Availability: In stock

  This OM1 SB has been upgraded with Ivoroid Binding, Adriondack Braces, and beautiful Western Shaded Top.
  "OM" stands for "Orchestra Model," but 80 years after this body shape was first designed it has become the most popular 14-fret model with fingerstyle guitar soloists who choose to play on steel strings. Yet flatpickers also find it appealing, and when the graceful cutaway is added these OMs are often used by lead players who routinely explore all 20 frets much as they would on an electric guitar. The compact shape makes the Collings OM equally easy to handle onstage or when sitting on the couch, and the relatively shallow body (barely over 4 inches deep) results in balanced tone and an immediate response.

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The Orchestra Model guitar remains ever popular, even after more than eight decades after its introduction. The Collings OM1 is a perfect "all day every day" acoustic guitar, with tried and true features like a Sitka spruce top and Mahogany back and sides. Flatpickers find it exquisite, but the OM1 welcomes any kind of player. Whether it's in your living room, on your patio, or in front of a thousand people, the Collings OM1 is a superb instrument.

Sitka Spruce Top
Western Shaded Top finish
Mahogany back & sides
Black/white wood nitrate strip rosette
Adirondack Spruce braces
Tortoise-style pickguard
Ivoroid Binding
High gloss nitrocellulose lacquer finish
Mahogany neck
Square headstock with no volute
15 degree headstock angle
Ebony peghead overlay with inlaid Collings logo
Ebony fingerboard with ebony belly-style bridge
Mortise and tenon hybrid neck joint
20 Frets, neck joins the body at the 14th fret
Modified V neck profile with 2 3/16" string spacing
14"-26" Compound fingerboard radius
1 3/4" Bone nut and drop-in saddle
25 1/2" Scale length
Medium 18% nickel-silver fretwire
Mother of pearl dot fingerboard inlays
Ebony bridge pins and end pin
Nickel Waverly tuners with 16:1 ratio
Collings deluxe hardshell case
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