It just so happened the UT1 was added at the beginning of February 2021 and this UC1 at the end of the same month. Ever since the UT1K proved how much fun ukuleles are, the though existed of adding either another tenor with a low G-string and/or a concert ukulele in mahogany. The ukuleles on this site are listed in the reverse order in which they were purchased. A 2016 snapshot of the relevant page on the old Collings website can be found here. The rosette is tortoise with black and white purfling and it uses an East-Indian rosewood bridge with bone saddle using a 1.73” string spacing, a neck with C-shaped profile and the finish already buffed to a gloss due to all the playing, a 12” radiused East-Indian rosewood fingerboard with 18 frets and ivoroid dot position markers, 1⅜” wide bone nut, “Single-Point” headstock with gold Collings logo on an East-Indian rosewood veneer, Pegheds planetary gear tuning machines, and a Collings case. This prototype is a more understated style 1 and has an all Honduran mahogany construction with a satin nitrocellulose lacquer finish. This run consisted entirely of concert ukuleles, with a 15” scale length the smallest they produce, with 17” scale length tenor ukuleles added shortly thereafter. In 2009, he decided to dip into the ukulele (properly pronounced as OO-koo-leh-lay) market and his shop in Austin, TX built 70 prototypes of which this is one. Whatever Bill’s endeavor may have been, it needed to be done in the best possible way within certain operation parameters, e.g. Or at the end of his life, guitar cases for that matter. He and his company are also responsible for highly regarded mandolins. The great late Bill Collings was not just one of the greatest small scale acoustic guitar builders.
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