Collings

Collings builds under one roof in Austin, down to the cases, which are designed and made in the same shop. The acoustics come in small, mid-sized and large bodies with modified V necks and compound-radius ebony boards. On the electric side, the LC models use a laminate construction Bill Collings and his R&D team developed so the body responds acoustically together with the pickups.

What's on the wall changes week to week. See every Collings electric in stock, every acoustic, or browse the current range in the Catalogue.

• I-35 LC. Semi-hollow with a maple and spruce centre block, in standard and Deluxe trim
• I-30 LC. Fully hollow, trestle-braced, with Lollar Dog Ear P-90s
• 470 JL. The Julian Lage signature: fully hollow with a trestle block, Ellisonics pickups and a Bigsby
• D1 and D2H. Square-shouldered 14-fret dreadnoughts, mahogany or East Indian rosewood with a Sitka top
• 001 and 0002H. 12-fret small bodies with slotted headstocks and a wide 1 13/16 inch nut

Collings guitars on our wall run from about $9,100 to $13,800 today, acoustics and electrics side by side.

Every Collings leaves our bench set up and ships insured, free over $200 across Canada and the US, with no duty on US orders. Lauzon Music is the biggest Collings electric dealer in Canada. Anything we don't have, in any current model, we can order in through the Catalogue.

Bill Collings was building guitars in Houston in the mid-1970s and moved to Austin in the early 1980s. In 1989 the vintage dealer George Gruhn ordered twenty-four of them, which is roughly the point the operation stopped being one man in a room. Collings died in 2017. The shop is still in Austin and still builds the same way.

The acoustics came first and they are what most people know. Dreadnoughts, OMs, and the small-bodied 001 and 0002H, with old-growth Sitka tops, Adirondack bracing and 42-style snowflake inlay when someone asks for it.

Collings showed its first electrics at Summer NAMM in 2006 with the I-35, the City Limits and the 290. The line now runs solid, semi-hollow and hollow: the slab-bodied 290 with P-90s or humbuckers, the 620 and the 71, the City Limits, the semi-hollow I-35 and SoCo, the fully hollow I-30, and the Statesman and Eastside archtops.

The 470 JL is the second thing Collings and Julian Lage have made together, after the OM1 JL acoustic. Fully hollow with a trestle block, Honduran mahogany with a maple laminate top, Ron Ellis Ellisonics pickups, 24 7/8 inch scale, Bigsby B3, pinned ebony bridge. On the I-35 LC the pickup people ask for by name is the ThroBak SLE-101.

We are the biggest Collings electric dealer in Canada, and the acoustics come through here too. We spec both sides one build at a time: the top wood, the bracing, the inlay, the pickups, the finish. Every Collings guitar that ships from Ottawa crosses Ian Vance's bench first. If the one you want is not on this page, we will order it.