Hand
picked premium grade flamed maple solid wood top
South American semi-hollow mahogany body with solid maple centre block
High
gloss nitro dark cherry sunburst finish
Indian Rosewood fingerboard
South American Mahogany neck
Mother of pearl parallelogram inlays
Mother of pearl Collings headstock logo
Grained ivoroid binding on body & neck/fingerboard
Grained ivoroid pick-up rings, control knobs, tuning buttons and truss rod
cover
Underwound Jason Lollar Imperial humbucker pickups (7k neck + 8k bridge)
3-way pickup selector switch
50's
vintage wiring
CTS pots
12" fingerboard radius
Scale length 24 7/8” (632mm)
Medium
frets (.104" x .047" as per Dunlop 6155)
Hand set extra-long mortise and tenon neck joint
Tone Pros bridge & stop tailpiece
Overall
weight 6lbs 11oz (3.03kg)
Deluxe hardshell case by Ameritage (this is a work of art in itself)
The current UK street price of a new Collings i35 Deluxe (if you can find one) is around £6.7k. I am asking £3900 £3500 for this example that has had only one owner and is in excellent condition and has never been gigged.
I am sure that any potential buyer would want to try out this high-end guitar before purchase so I am not offering postage or delivery on this item and I don't want any trades. I am located in West Oxfordshire approximately mid-way between Oxford and Swindon and 12 miles from Junction 15 of the M4 motorway. Payment by prior bank transfer or by cash on collection only.
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Comments
I've got a an i35-LC (the non-deluxe version) and I recently contacted Collings to ask if they'd sell me some of those gorgeous volume and tone controls. The politely declined and explained that they machine them only for their deluxe models and wouldn't make 'extra' sets regardless of how much I offered. I think that's pretty cool. Those knobs are really something special, GLWS!