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OM and Auditorium
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Collings OM1 A JL 2024, Natural

$7,850.00
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InstrumentOM and Auditorium
BrandCollings
ModelOM1 A JL
FinishNatural
SKUGF8662-A
HandednessRight
Made In Year2024
TopAdirondack spruce
Back & SidesHonduran mahogany
ConstructionTraditional Series Build and Voicing
NeckHonduran mahogany
Body BindingTortoise with custom wood purflings
Fingerboard BindingNone
Peghead BindingNone
BridgeEbony belly-style with 2 3/16" spacing
FingerboardEbony with gold MOP short dots
Fingerboard Radius14" - 26" compound
Bridge Pins/End PinEbony with MOP dot
NutBone, 1 11/16"
SaddleBone, drop-in
Neck ProfileCustom JL carve
Peghead ProfileSquare
Neck JointMortise & tenon hybrid
Truss RodFully adjustable
FretsMedium 18% nickel-silver
Peghead VeneerEbony with gold MOP Collings script logo
Backstrip1-style (walnut)
RosetteCustom wood rosette
Scale Length25 1/2"
Brace MaterialSitka spruce
Brace PatternCustom Traditional Series pre-war scalloped X-brace (no tongue brace)
Body FinishCustom satin nitrocellulose lacquer
Neck FinishCustom satin nitrocellulose lacquer
PickguardTortoise
StringsD'Addario NB1253 (.012"- .053")
CaseDeluxe hardshell case
Brand new Collings OM1 A JL Julian Lage signature model with Adionrdack Spruce top. Includes hardshell case.

From Collings: "When Bill Collings first met the brilliant young jazz musician Julian Lage in 2014, the two began a series of in-depth conversations about their respective crafts. Lage’s profound insights as a guitarist would play a key role in the creation of Collings’ Traditional Series guitars. This rare collaboration, which continued right up until Bill’s passing in July of 2017, has yielded another exceptional new guitar with an old soul. We are proud to present a highly-personal extension of the T Series: the Julian Lage OM1 signature model, or “OM1 JL.”

Though Lage’s guitar shares the same foundational specs as the OM1 T, it is unique in some key ways. Its neck feels like no other Collings guitar, and that’s because it’s modeled after Lage’s cherished 1939 Martin 000-18. This pre-war gem is heard on the guitarist’s 2015 solo album, World’s Fair, and was his main touring acoustic for years.

The 000-18’s neck, which was originally hand-shaped and sanded, has a distinctive taper altered by decades of wear. For Lage, this particular neck has come to feel like home. Through careful analysis and digitization of its unique dimensions, we were able to precisely recreate its worn-in, asymmetrical feel on his signature model. While we maintained the relatively narrow 1 11/16″ nut of the 000-18’s neck, we extended the fretboard from the original short scale to our standard 25 ½” length for slightly greater presence and note definition.

Lage has an affinity both tonally and aesthetically for vintage guitars whose finishes have mellowed after years of playing. To achieve the ideal combination of a thin application and a vintage aesthetic, we landed on a custom satin lacquer. This new offering not only feels and looks right to Lage, but he also finds it has the same inherent openness of tone that is present in the best pre-war instruments.

With his typical descriptive eloquence, Lage characterizes his signature model as a “lovingly neutral” guitar. It has a remarkably even response between registers and a tone that rewards you when you’re playing your best. In this way, Lage, whose own education is unending, sees the guitar as a teacher.

The OM1 JL incorporates a script peghead logo not seen on a new Collings instrument in decades. This is the inlay that Bill hand cut some 30 years ago when he started out in a tiny shop in Austin, Texas. We see this as a loving tribute to our late leader who, in his final project, was able to realize the perfect new steel-string for one of today’s most exacting guitarists."

*When using Affirm, we charge an additional 3.5% fee on the total at checkout. The majority of our instruments are consignment, where CVG keeps a small percentage of each sale. To be able to cover the additional costs required to offer financing, we have to include a higher fee to the customer. The 3.5% fee will be included in and spread across your Affirm payments.

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