Description
The following are excerpts from the Collings website)
The Collings 02H Traditional "features East Indian rosewood back and sides with ivoroid body binding and butt wedge, herringbone top purfling, a 'zipper' backstrip, diamonds and squares fingerboard inlays, and a more intricate 2-style rosette.
Our Traditional series instruments (T) offer a slightly looser, more “broken in” feel and tone, featuring a rounder high end and fuller low midrange, along with our Traditional aesthetic appointments, such as gold MOP inlays and custom wood purflings and rosette. Traditional models also feature an ultra-thin nitrocellulose lacquer body finish, abbreviated tongue brace, and a unique neck construction designed to complement the looser feel and voicing, along with our Traditional neck carve."
Specifications (courtesy of Collings)
Top | Sitka spruce |
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Back & Sides | E. Indian rosewood |
Neck | Honduran mahogany |
Body Binding | Ivoroid with herringbone purfling |
Fingerboard Binding | None |
Peghead Binding | None |
Bridge | Ebony belly-style with 2 3/16" spacing |
Fingerboard | Ebony with abalone short diamond & squares |
Fingerboard Radius | 14" - 26" compound |
Bridge Pins/End Pin | Ebony with MOP dot |
Nut | Bone, 1 11/16" |
Saddle | Bone, drop-in |
Neck Profile | Modified V |
Peghead Profile | Square with volute |
Neck Joint | Mortise & tenon hybrid |
Truss Rod | Fully adjustable |
Frets | Medium 18% nickel-silver |
Peghead Veneer | Stained Exotic Ebony with MOP Collings logo |
Tuners | Nickel Waverly |
Backstrip | 2-style (Zipper) |
Rosette | iv/tort/iv & b/w purflings |
Scale Length | 24 7/8" |
Brace Material | Sitka spruce |
Brace Pattern | Pre-war scalloped X-brace |
Body Finish | High gloss nitrocellulose lacquer |
Neck Finish | High gloss polyester resin |
Pickguard | Tortoise |
Strings | D'Addario EJ-16 (.012"- .053") |
Case | Deluxe hardshell case |