The Collings OM1 with an Old Growth Sitka Spruce top is a masterfully crafted Orchestra Model that embodies everything players admire about Collings: exceptional responsiveness, flawless craftsmanship, and remarkable tonal balance. By pairing a premium old-growth Sitka spruce top with solid Honduran mahogany back and sides, this guitar delivers outstanding clarity, warmth, and projection while offering the mature, open character that discerning players seek.

Equally at home on stage, in the studio, or in the living room, the OM1 excels at fingerstyle, flatpicking, and vocal accompaniment, providing the dynamic range and articulation expected from one of the world's finest boutique acoustic builders.

Body

The carefully selected Old Growth Sitka spruce top offers exceptional stiffness-to-weight ratio, resulting in outstanding headroom, quick response, and impressive dynamic range. Combined with solid Honduran mahogany back and sides, the guitar produces a balanced voice with focused mids, crisp highs, and a warm, woody low end that continues to develop over time.

Collings' renowned pre-war scalloped X-bracing allows the top to resonate freely, producing remarkable sustain, note separation, and projection. Elegant appointments include tortoise binding with black and white purfling, a traditional purfling rosette, walnut backstrip, ebony bridge with bone saddle, and a tortoise pickguard, all finished in a beautifully applied high-gloss nitrocellulose lacquer.

Neck

The Honduran mahogany neck features Collings' comfortable Modified "V" profile, offering a vintage-inspired feel that remains exceptionally comfortable for long playing sessions. The ebony fingerboard features a compound 14" to 26" radius, mother-of-pearl short dot inlays, and medium nickel-silver frets for smooth, accurate playability across the entire neck.

A fully adjustable truss rod and Collings' precision mortise-and-tenon hybrid neck joint provide outstanding stability, sustain, and long-term reliability.

Premium Components

Every detail reflects Collings' uncompromising attention to quality. Premium features include a bone nut and drop-in bone saddle, ebony bridge pins with mother-of-pearl dots, nickel Waverly open-gear tuners for exceptional tuning precision, an ebony headstock veneer with the iconic mother-of-pearl Collings logo, and factory-installed D'Addario EJ16 phosphor bronze strings. A deluxe hardshell case is included for premium protection.