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Collings CJ35 Guitar Review in Singapore

3,225 views · Published 5 September 2015 · 15:36 · Indexed 10 November 2026

Channel: The Guitar Spa Singapore · 2015 · Music

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The pre-war era of American flattop guitar making has come to be known as "golden" for a reason. Lauded for its short but brilliant periods of construction innovation, the years from 1930-1942 were filled with new instrument runs that featured bracing, fret access and body dimension changes that would define the features and sounds of the modern acoustic guitar. Emerging out of our fascination with this era of guitar making history, Collings is proud to introduce the CJ35. Available with a mahogany back and slope-shouldered body, this new variation of our CJ model incorporates a non-scalloped bracing configuration featuring three tone bars and a short 24 7/8" scale length. This new design provides the CJ35 with a beautiful balance of deep piano-like bass and powerful full-bodied highs, complimented by a focused dynamic range for exceptionally even note projection. As a result, the CJ35 is one of our most versatile large-bodied guitars, well suited to both fingerstyle and strumming techniques.

Standard Features Include:

Select sitka spruce top
Mahogany back and sides
Simple ivoroid rosette
Ivoroid top/back binding
1-style walnut backstrip
Pre-war non-scalloped Adirondack bracing with 3 tone bars
Abbreviated tongue brace
Tigerstripe celluloid pickguard
High gloss nitrocellulose lacquer finish
Mahogany neck
Unbound "Haircut" headstock
15 degree headstock angle
Ebony peghead overlay with inlaid ivoroid Collings logo
African rosewood fingerboard with straight-style bridge
Mortise and tenon hybrid neck joint
20 Frets, neck joins the body at the 14th fret
Vintage-inspired neck profile with 2 5/16" string spacing
14"-26" Compound fingerboard radius
1 3/4" Bone nut and cutthrough saddle
24 7/8" Scale length
Medium 18% nickel-silver fretwire
Mother of pearl dot fingerboard inlays
Fully adjustable truss rod
Ivoroid bridge pins and ebony end pin
Nickel Waverly tuners with ivoroid buttons & 16:1 ratio

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