2020 Collings OM1 JL Julian Lage Signature

When Bill Collings first met the brilliant young jazz musician Julian Lage in 2014, the two began a series of in-depth conversations about their respective crafts. Lage's profound insights as a guitarist would play a key role in the creation of Collings’ T (Traditional) Series guitars. This rare collaboration (which continued right up until Bill passed away in July 2017) has yielded Collings' first signature model—an exceptional new guitar with an old soul: the Julian Lage Signature OM1. Though Lage’s guitar shares the same foundational specs as the OM1 T, it is unique in some key ways. Its neck feels like no other Collings guitar. That’s because it was modeled after Lage’s cherished 1939 Martin 000-18. This prewar gem is heard on the guitarist’s 2015 solo album, “World’s Fair,” and it was his main touring acoustic for years. The 000-18’s neck—which was originally shaped and sanded by hand—has a distinctive taper altered by decades of wear. For Lage, this particular neck had come to fe