Here's the *new* Collings electric - sort of a single cutaway I-35 model, this one in amber sunburst with the larger (City Limits JAZZ style) headstock and dot inlay. The model is yet un-named, but price should be right around the I-35 area. Might be called an I-360, or a "MoPac" - who knows? It's one great light and impeccably crafted guitar, no surprises there.

Update: The new model will be called the "SoCo" as in "South Congress" - that south of the Congress Avenue "bat" bridge stretch of Austin - that bohemian-hip neighborhood of funky stores, boot shops and great clubs (The Continental, Threadgills, etc.) that helped make Austin the Live Music Capital of the World. Collings nails it again with a great moniker for a new industry-standard axe.

This particular guitar (sorry, SOLD) is a SoCo Deluxe in amber sunburst. More on order.

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Do you know if it is fully or semi-hollow? Is it voiced for jazz exclusively, with jazz-type pickups, or is it more like a semi-hollow Les Paul. Looks great; I want one.

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Originally posted by Rotten:

Do you know if it is fully or semi-hollow? Is it voiced for jazz exclusively, with jazz-type pickups, or is it more like a semi-hollow Les Paul. Looks great; I want one.

Hi Rotten,

Yes, your "semi-hollow Les Paul" is a pretty accurate way to describe it. A little more Jazz than a CL, same pickups as the 35, same fixed tailpiece and bridge. Great all around guitar - hard to pigeon-hole. Collings does, of course, offer a hollow (thinline) single cutaway electric voiced for Jazz and equipped with Kent Armstrong Jazz pickup, trapeze tailpiece and adjustable floating bridge. That is the City Limits Jazz model. Very limited production thus far, there were two of these at the show as well and we got one. Here's a pic of the CL Jazz from 2007 (Winter) NAMM:

http://www.acousticmusicworks.com/jazz07.html

One of those headstocks in the group shot looks like its morphed from the haircut to a D'Angelico

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..morphed from the haircut to a D'Angelico

Yessir, that's the JUMBO haircut, suitable for a 110 degree Texas Summer. Standard on the CL Jazz, also available on the new semi-hollow model as well. My daddy always told me...Son, never eat anything bigger than your head.