Collings 470JL Julian Lage Black

Collings has been making crushingly beautiful acoustic and electric guitars for years. And they are adding a winner to that list with the 470JL.

The 470JL guitars are built around two pickups: Ron Ellis Ellisonics. These provide a beautiful low end, warm and eloquent mids, and crystal clear trebles, without any distractions. To emphasize all these beautiful tones, Collings designed a semi-hollow mahogany body with a laminated maple top, finished with a thin and resonant nitro lacquer. The combination of all these elements creates a completely new sound that clearly leans on sounds we know and love: the warmth of an ES335, a touch of Tele-Twang, a hint of Les Paul, a subtle Gretsch edge and even some of the transparency of a very good Strat. Everything is there, beautifully and successfully combined into a wonderfully new voice.

A Bigsby Tremolo with a Tune-o-matic bridge and solid Waverly tuning machines ensure that this guitar stays in perfect tune. The ebony fingerboard with stop inlays looks beautiful. The black finish is very subtly aged. The "Antiqued" finish is full of fine details that only the player can truly appreciate.

Collings, together with Julian Lage, has once again succeeded in creating an instant classic that plays like a dream! The transition from body to neck has been completely redesigned for a seamless transition, and the neck profile goes from a solid C to more of a V-profile, which makes soloing higher up the neck a lot easier.

This guitar comes in a hardshell case with TFOA passport.