Collings Guitars - DS1A Hill Country - Natural - 12-Fret Dreadnought

Mass Street Music

Description

We've been counting down the days for our very first 12-fret Hill Country Dreadnought  to arrive and wow was it worth the wait. Featuring a 12-fret body, this new addition to the Hill Country line delivers a comfortable, big sounding guitar, with a vintage appeal that flatpickers are going to love.


We got to spend some time with a prototype build this past fall and this production DS1A HC is every bit as good as we remember that guitar being. Bold and articulate with a strong fundamental and few overtones make this such a responsive cannon that can handle everything from Norman Blake fiddle tunes to the most free-flowing jam grass, while feeling effortless to play.


The Hill Country line of guitars delivers a vintage-voiced build, with the same quality and attention to detail that has always been synonymous with Collings, in warmer, dry, and focused guitar. Here with an Adirondack spruce top, paired with Mahogany back and sides, this Dreadnought features hand-poured tortoise appointments, new bracing and top/back voicings, and a stamped Collings logo on the back of the headstock.


The control, and power that comes from this line of Collings guitars rivals any sort of vintage-inspired build out there and we're thrilled to have them here in the shop. Includes a free Mass Street setup from our crew of luthiers along with the original hardshell case.



  • Body: 12-Fret Dreadnought

  • Top: Adirondack spruce

  • Back & Sides: Honduran mahogany

  • Construction: Hill Country Build and Voicing

  • Neck: Honduran mahogany

  • Body Binding: Tortoise

  • Fingerboard Binding: Ebony

  • Peghead Binding: None

  • Bridge: Ebony belly-style with 2 5/16" spacing

  • Fingerboard: Ebony with gold MOP dots

  • Fingerboard Radius: 14" - 26" compound

  • Bridge Pins/End Pin: Ebony

  • Nut: Aged bone, 1 3/4"

  • Saddle: Aged bone, cutthrough

  • Neck Profile: DS Hill Country

  • Peghead Profile: Tapered slotted square with volute

  • Neck Joint: Mortise & tenon hybrid

  • Truss Rod: Fully adjustable

  • Frets: Medium 18% nickel-silver

  • Peghead Veneer: Ebony with no Collings Logo on front and stamped logo on back

  • Tuners: Relic Nickel Waverly

  • Backstrip: 1-style (walnut)

  • Rosette: Hand-poured ring from matching pickguard set

  • Scale Length: 25 1/2"

  • Brace Material: Sitka spruce

  • Brace Pattern: Hill Country scalloped X-brace (abbreviated soundboard graft (tongue brace))

  • Body Finish: High gloss ultra-thin nitrocellulose lacquer

  • Neck Finish: High gloss ultra-thin nitrocellulose lacquer

  • Pickguard: Hand-poured tortoise w/ matching rosette ring, wedge, and heel cap

  • Strings: D'Addario EJ-17 (.013"- .056")

  • Case: Deluxe hardshell case

  • Serial# 36294