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2014 Collings CJ35 SB
The CJ-35 features a three unscalloped tone-bar bracing pattern, styled after Gibson’s original 1930s J-35 model. With the top braced stiffer, the guitar offers a clean and articulate bass, very round and powerful treble response, and huge volume throughout. The bridge is lightened up, too, which adds a quickness to the attack. It’s meaty and throaty, and has an archtop-like cut, but with a fat dreadnought fundamental and warmth. There’s just no other guitar like it.
The guitar’s feel is a modern take on vintage, thanks to a wide 2-5/16” string spread at the bridge and a round-carve neck with 1-3/4” nut width and short 24-7/8” scale. And to finish of things right, the CJ-35 features a small rectangular bridge with a glued-in through-cut saddle and ivoroid pins; a firestripe celluloid pickguard, single-ply ivoroid bindings and a matching simple rosette, dot fingerboard markers, and a headstock with an ivoroid logo in an ebony headstock overlay and nickel/ivoroid Waverly tuners.
Mahogany back and sides, torrefied Sitka spruce top, Adirondack spruce braces, mahogany neck with African Wenge fingerboard and ebony headstock overlay. African Wenge bridge, bone nut and saddle, and gloss sunburst lacquer finish.
This gently used example is in perfect condition and has been fitted with a K&K Pure pickup.
With Collings Hardshell case
