Post by detuned on Aug 3, 2020 7:35:57 GMT -7
There's a long story attached, but last Friday I picked this little beauty up:
It's a 2013 Collings I-35 LC, and the pictures (as they usually don't) don't really do it justice. Maybe a little less orange and more amber in real life...
TL;DR: Traded a Collings D2H that I rarely ever played for it.
Here's the long story:
In 2015, I had just been laid off when I got a call from some guy who told me to sit down, because I just just won a Collings D2H on the internet. I thought it was surely a scam, but I *had* entered a giveaway for such a guitar from the Chicago Music Exchange, and all he wanted was for me to verify the email address I had used and my shipping address.
Sure enough, a stunning Collings D2H arrived at my door about a week later.
Here's the thing, I don't really play much acoustic. But I thought that with such a great one, I should at least make the attempt, so I gamely tried (on and off) for a while to develop acoustic chops worthy of my Collings. I'll admit, after a while, it mostly sat in it's case. I was more than a little intimidated by the thought of scratching or marring an "heirloom-quality" instrument, especially since neither of my "heirs" show any interest in playing guitar.
Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago, when an offhand remark from Mick on TPS reminded me of how much I'd always wanted a 335-style guitar. I mean, I'd been tracking various Gibsons, Heritages, Eastmans, etc. for a while now, but never made the connection until I heard him say he was thinking about trading his Gibson for a Collings. A lightbulb lit over my head: there's a Collings dealer about 15 minutes away from my office, and they had a bunch of Collings I-35s.
I reached out to see if they were interested in a trade (they were), tried this baby out, and we came home together.
I'm not really much of a humbucker player, but these Throbaks are pretty sweet. Plays like a dream, too. It'll take some getting used to, since I've played strat-style guitars for so many years, but I finally have a Collings I'll actually play! My wife thinks it's pretty, too. So there's that...
It's a 2013 Collings I-35 LC, and the pictures (as they usually don't) don't really do it justice. Maybe a little less orange and more amber in real life...
TL;DR: Traded a Collings D2H that I rarely ever played for it.
Here's the long story:
In 2015, I had just been laid off when I got a call from some guy who told me to sit down, because I just just won a Collings D2H on the internet. I thought it was surely a scam, but I *had* entered a giveaway for such a guitar from the Chicago Music Exchange, and all he wanted was for me to verify the email address I had used and my shipping address.
Sure enough, a stunning Collings D2H arrived at my door about a week later.
Here's the thing, I don't really play much acoustic. But I thought that with such a great one, I should at least make the attempt, so I gamely tried (on and off) for a while to develop acoustic chops worthy of my Collings. I'll admit, after a while, it mostly sat in it's case. I was more than a little intimidated by the thought of scratching or marring an "heirloom-quality" instrument, especially since neither of my "heirs" show any interest in playing guitar.
Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago, when an offhand remark from Mick on TPS reminded me of how much I'd always wanted a 335-style guitar. I mean, I'd been tracking various Gibsons, Heritages, Eastmans, etc. for a while now, but never made the connection until I heard him say he was thinking about trading his Gibson for a Collings. A lightbulb lit over my head: there's a Collings dealer about 15 minutes away from my office, and they had a bunch of Collings I-35s.
I reached out to see if they were interested in a trade (they were), tried this baby out, and we came home together.
I'm not really much of a humbucker player, but these Throbaks are pretty sweet. Plays like a dream, too. It'll take some getting used to, since I've played strat-style guitars for so many years, but I finally have a Collings I'll actually play! My wife thinks it's pretty, too. So there's that...