Check out the finish on this Collings

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Zaphod B

Zaphod B

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It's their model 290, and they call the finish "doghair."

I like it. :)
 

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That's been an option for a few years now and I still say "barf"

but whatever floats yer boat.;)
 
muttley600 said:
That's been an option for a few years now and I still say "barf"

but whatever floats yer boat.;)
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I've always been fond of the translucent blacks, and this one is kind of similar.

How is that finish achieved, Muttley?
 
Zaphod B said:
I've always been fond of the translucent blacks, and this one is kind of similar.

How is that finish achieved, Muttley?
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There are several ways to do it depending on the timber and lacquer/finish. I believe those are done in nitro in which case most likely would be grain fill the timber with a white filler similar to the limed oak everyone went mad on a few years back. Sand back and Stain black and sand off again. Repeat untill you have the Depth of black you want and load up your top coats. My guess is they have used an epoxy or similarly impervious grain filler as the white is holding it's colour when the black stain is wiped over. It may also have a few tint coats on to tone it down I'm not sure without seeing it in the first person.

All your seeing there is the grain filler grinning through. At least thats my guess I haven't actually handled one before. The other way would be to stain black before grain filling and then grain fill white and finish over that but although it may give a marginally better finish it would require a bit more work as the filler would have to be cleaned back by hand and carefully. Either way it's not a hard finish to achieve just not my cup o' tea. I like to see timber.
 
Got it, thanks. I was wondering if that was a light grain filler - I couldn't think of any other way to do it.
 
Yes, Collings are sweet, but....

I think about all I could afford is one of the tuning pegs...
 
I've seen translucent black finishes on some wood that actually show a fair bit of grain. I don't like opaque finishes on instruments.
 
I took the factory tour - they don't shy away from taking the long, manual route to get where they're going, so maybe it would be the latter of the Muttley's methods? It does show up in the price tag -- toward the end, we were passing around a mostly finished mandolin, and someone casually asked what it was going to sell for, and they said about $18k (:eek:!) I almost dropped it just from the sticker shock.

I hope to buy one of their dreadnoughts one day. After I win the lottery. The ones I want are only $3-4k :D
 
I'm not usually a fan of trans blacks, but I dig that one. And anything called 'dog hair' has got to be cool.

And if I could ever afford a Collings, I'll probably do something else with the money instead, like buy a car.
 
Zb

Of course, if you bought it, the first thing you'd do is put a humbucker in the bridge position. :D
 
true-eurt said:
I'm good Zaph...better now that I have access to a PC for a couple weeks.;)

I love that finish! It's different and I love different. It doesn't look like doghair to me though.;)
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Ever own a collie? ;) :D
 
true-eurt said:
Your Freudian style word association works great! Collings...collie...dog hair...what kind of guitar did the lead player of Nazareth play?;) Judy Collins was a singer...could Barnabas Collins play a role here? I feel like I'm on search overload...:eek::D
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:eek: :eek: :eek: It was purely an accident!
 
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