Collings D2HG Rope Purfling (862)

New Collings D2HG in stock. This one features the 1 3/4" nut width and the upgraded German spruce top. Also includes 42 Snowflake fretboard inlays and "Rope" top purfling.

The square-shouldered 14-fret dreadnought is the most popular steel-string acoustic guitar body shape in the world. While Collings is certainly not the only company to build them, they bring a new tonal clarity to the depth and warmth usually associated with such a large, deep-bodied guitar. Although its bass response makes the dreadnought ideal for vocal accompaniment, Collings versions are also often employed by bluegrass flatpickers who must compete with inherently louder instruments such as banjos and fiddles.

• German spruce top
• East Indian rosewood back and sides
• Cross-cut grained ivoroid and wood nitrate strip rosette
• Grained ivoroid top/back body binding
• Rope Purfling option with matching 2-style backstrip
• Pre-war scalloped Sitka bracing
• Tortoise-style celluloid pickguard
• High gloss nitrocellulose lacquer finish
• Mahogany neck
• Square headstock with volute
• 15 degree headstock angle
• Ebony peghead overlay with inlaid Collings logo
• Ebony fingerboard with ebony belly-style bridge
• Mortise and tenon hybrid neck joint
• 20 Frets, neck joins the body at the 14th fret
• Modified V neck profile with 2 3/16" string spacing
• 14"-26" Compound fingerboard radius
• 1 3/4" Bone nut and drop-in saddle
• 25 1/2" Scale length
• Medium 18% nickel-silver fretwire
• 42 Snowflake fingerboard inlays
• Fully adjustable truss rod
• Ebony bridge pins and end pin
• Nickel Waverly tuners with 16:1 ratio
• Recommended string gauge - D'Addario EJ-17 (.013"-.056")
• Collings TKL hardshell case