Product Overview
As with all of our Traditional Series guitars, when it came time to add a “T” designation to our slope-shoulder offerings, we didn’t simply tweak the original; the all-new Collings CJ-45 T is a fully re-imagined instrument that offers a distinct tonal variation when compared to our CJ and CJ-35 models. Strongly vintage-inspired, the body construction has been completely re-engineered, including new bracing carves and patterns. When combined with our latest T-Series neck design and new CJ-45 neck profile, the result showcases a tone that is exceptionally dry and fundamental with the growl and thump sought after in the great slope-shoulder dreads of the Wartime era.
Other specifications include:
- Top Sitka spruce
- Back & Sides Honduran mahogany
- Construction Traditional Series Build and Voicing
- Neck Honduran mahogany
- Body Binding Ivoroid with no purfling
- Fingerboard Binding None
- Peghead Binding None
- Bridge Ebony straight-style with 2 5/16″ spacing
- Fingerboard Radius 12″
- Fingerboard Indian rosewood with 19 frets and MOP long dots
- Bridge Pins/End Pin Ivoroid with no dot
- Nut Bone, 1 3/4″
- Saddle Bone, cut-through
- Neck Profile CJ-45 Carve (0.986″ @ 1st Fret /0.998″ @ 12th Fret)
- Peghead Profile Haircut
- Neck Joint Mortise & tenon hybrid
- Truss Rod Fully adjustable
- Frets Medium 18% nickel-silver
- Peghead Veneer Ebony with MOP Collings logo
- Tuners Nickel Waverly w/ Ivoroid buttons (16:1 ratio)
- Backstrip None
- Rosette Simple ivoroid with b/w purfling
- Scale Length 24 7/8″
- Brace Material Adirondack spruce w/ abbreviated tongue brace
- Brace Pattern CJ-45 Wartime scalloped X-brace
- Body Finish High gloss nitrocellulose lacquer
- Neck Finish High gloss nitrocellulose lacquer
- Pickguard Tortoise
- Strings D’Addario EJ-17 (.013″- .056″)
- Body Length 20 1/8″
- Body Depth 4 7/8″
- Lower Bout Width 16″
- Total Length 41″
