Description

It is hard to imagine a louder, clearer, better-built mandolin anywhere in this price range than the Collings MT2. Although the elegance of an F-style mandolin is hard to overlook, there is something magical about a well-crafted A that make them hard to pass up. As always, Collings is using superb materials on these instruments -- flamed maple back, select aged Adirondack spruce tops with tone-bar bracing, all carved to exacting standards. Even the adjustable ebony bridges are crafted at the Collings shop, as is the tailpiece (Bill's own design). And speaking of Bill's designs ... all MT2s are now priced with a Collings-built vintage-style hard case.

Specs

• Select Adirondack spruce top
• Premium figured maple back, sides and neck
• Parallel tone bar bracing
• F-soundholes
• Grained ivoroid top/back/neck [&] peghead binding
• Black/white purflings
• Full high-gloss nitrocellulose lacquer finish
• Bound "Haircut" headstock
• 13 Degree headstock angle
• Ebony peghead overlay w/Collings logo and flourish inlay
• Ebony fingerboard
• Mortise and tenon neck joint
• 22-frets, neck joins the body at the 15th fret
• V shaped neck profile with 1 9/16" string spacing
• 5 1/2"-11 5/8" Compound fingerboard radius
• 1 1/8" Bone nut
• 13 7/8" Scale length
• Medium 18% nickel-silver fretwire
• Mother of pearl dot fingerboard inlays
• Fully adjustable truss rod
• Custom adjustable floating ebony bridge
• Collings original one-piece nickel or gold tailpiece
• Nickel or gold tuners with black or pearl buttons
• Serial #A4083