Aptly named for wearing its inspiration right on its proverbial sleeve, this gorgeous I-30LC tips its hat to the legendary Kalamazoo-made hollowbody thinline electric we all know and love.

Have you ever seen or played a guitar so good it just made you mad? And we don't mean mad in the literal sense - more like that overwhelming feeling of something just being so right it's wrong, and you straight up can't take it...

That's how we're feeling about this guitar, folks.

With some custom spec requests scribbled down in a quick email to the folks over at Collings, this I-30LC arrived not long after and shattered every expectation we had, and then some. From the slightly tweaked custom Western Shaded top finish to the Walnut back, sides, and neck finish, and topped off with that eye-catching parchment guard and matching truss rod cover, we've got a truly unique and simultaneously classic looking I-30 that gives true reverence to the original thinline electrics of the early 1960s.

This particular build is freakishly lightweight at 5lb 4oz - it might be the lightest I-30 we've ordered, period. Combine that with the Throbak 55/56 P90s, and you can nail that vintage mid 50s tonality and more. It's got great vocal-like response that works just as well for clean tones as it does dirty and gained up.

What else can be said, frankly?! This is without question the coolest vintage-inspired I-30 build we've ever dreamt up here at TME.

Priced with original hardshell case.