Sound Pure's Take
The Collings I-30 LC is a lightweight fully hollow electric that delivers exceptional resonance, clarity, and touch sensitivity. Its maple laminate construction and parallel trestle bracing create an airy, open voice with impressive articulation, while the Lollar Low Wind Imperial pickups provide warm, dynamic tones that excel with both clean and lightly driven sounds. The fully hollow design gives the guitar an almost acoustic-like responsiveness, making every nuance of your playing feel immediate and expressive. Finished in Tobacco Sunburst with classic ivoroid binding and a trapeze tailpiece, it carries a timeless vintage aesthetic. Resonant, elegant, and remarkably musical, the I-30 LC offers a refined voice that is uniquely its own.
From Collings Guitars
Our goal for the I-30 LC was to take the concept of a double cutaway, fully-hollow guitar and refine it to the extent that it offers something truly new for today’s players. The result is one of the most acoustically responsive and versatile electric guitars we have ever offered.
The lightweight “trestle-braced” body of the I-30 LC has been developed through extensive R&D and is the distillation of knowledge gleaned from our popular I-35 LC and Statesman LC. The trestle brace design directly couples the neck and tail block, creating exceptional strength and acoustical energy transference, while also allowing for a lightness and responsiveness that is both a tactile and musical joy to experience.
Playing the I-30 LC, you can easily feel the acoustic energy travel through the symmetric arches and re-curves of the top and back. These plates have been custom laminated and voiced for a tonality that is acoustic guitar-like in its resonance and dynamic response, but focused and feedback resistant enough to be utilized in jazz, blues, rock n’ roll, and other styles. Our new custom-designed trapeze tailpiece provides just the right amount of “give” for a relaxed string feel and effortless playability.
- Construction
- Fully Hollow with Parallel Trestle Braces
- Body
- Maple Laminate
- Top
- Maple Laminate
- Neck
- Honduran Mahogany
- Neck Joint
- Extra Long Mortise & Tenon
- Fingerboard
- Rosewood
- Fingerboard Inlays
- Mother of Pearl Long Dots (5mm Non-Tapered)
- Fingerboard Radius
- 12"
- Nut Width
- 1 11/16"
- Scale Length
- 24 7/8"
- Frets
- Medium 18% Nickel-Silver
- Soundholes
- Unbound F-Holes
- Bridge
- Kluson ABR-1 (Nickel-Plated Zinc with Retaining Wire)
- Tailpiece
- Collings Original Trapeze Tailpiece
- Tuners
- Nickel Gotoh with Collings Logo
- Pickups
- Lollar Low Wind Imperials
- Pots/Caps
- CTS 500K / Jupiter Vintage Yellow
- Wiring
- 50s Style
- Body Binding
- Non-Grained Ivoroid
- Fingerboard Binding
- Non-Grained Ivoroid
- Peghead Binding
- None
- Peghead Veneer
- Ebony with Mother of Pearl Collings Logo
- Peghead Profile
- Haircut
- Knobs
- Amber or Black Top Hat
- Finish
- High Gloss Nitrocellulose Lacquer
- Finish Color
- Tobacco Sunburst
- Pickguard
- Black/Cream/Black
- Truss Rod Cover
- Black/Cream/Black
- Strings
- D'Addario NYXL1149 (.011"–.049")
- Case
- Deluxe Hardshell Case
- Weight
- 5lbs 4oz
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