2015 Waterloo WL-14 LTR
This early production ladder-braced Waterloo WL-14 is built very much akin to a mid-1930's Kalamazoo KG-14. It features a spruce bridgeplate, protein-based glue, and a lightweight build of solid mahogany back and sides and spruce top. The construction is simple, just as the 1930's originals were, but the workmanship is all Collings. The guitar is beautifully built, right down to the saddle fit and fretwork.
The WL-14 sings with the focused low end and punchy midrange you'd hope it to; it's a top-notch ragtime and blues picker, just like the Kalamazoo KG-14 from which it takes its inspiration.
This example features a Sitka sop, a thin nitrocellulose sunburst finish, simple appointments, and a mid-1930s neck carve with a chunky, somewhat rounded V neck, 1-3/4” nut, and a 1st fret thickness of .980”. 24.75” scale, 2-3/8” string spread at the saddle. Rosewood fingerboard with simple dots, truss rod, ebony nut, vintage style Stewart MacDonald Golden Age tuners, and a silkscreened logo. Firestripe pickguard, bound soundhole, and an ebony bridge with bone through-cut saddle. There is a K&K pickup that’s been professionally installed and a strap button on the neck heel.
The guitar is in excellent condition and shows very little playwear to its finish and frets. It has been set-up here at Folkway and plays easily with and action of 5-6 64ths and 12-54 strings.
With original hardshell case.
The WL-14 sings with the focused low end and punchy midrange you'd hope it to; it's a top-notch ragtime and blues picker, just like the Kalamazoo KG-14 from which it takes its inspiration.
This example features a Sitka sop, a thin nitrocellulose sunburst finish, simple appointments, and a mid-1930s neck carve with a chunky, somewhat rounded V neck, 1-3/4” nut, and a 1st fret thickness of .980”. 24.75” scale, 2-3/8” string spread at the saddle. Rosewood fingerboard with simple dots, truss rod, ebony nut, vintage style Stewart MacDonald Golden Age tuners, and a silkscreened logo. Firestripe pickguard, bound soundhole, and an ebony bridge with bone through-cut saddle. There is a K&K pickup that’s been professionally installed and a strap button on the neck heel.
The guitar is in excellent condition and shows very little playwear to its finish and frets. It has been set-up here at Folkway and plays easily with and action of 5-6 64ths and 12-54 strings.
With original hardshell case.