2026 Collings OM42 with Sitka Spruce & E. Indian Rosewood with 42 Style Abalone Top Border & Torch Peghead Inlay Serial #36970

Fingerstyle players and flatpickers who want a pre-war-voiced OM built to modern tolerances will feel right at home with the Collings OM3. A Sitka spruce top over East Indian rosewood back and sides, paired with a pre-war scalloped X-brace, delivers the balanced, articulate voice the OM body style was designed for — dressed up here with 42-style abalone top border, a torch peghead inlay, and gold Waverly tuners.

As always, the build quality of Collings is just legendary.

Build & Materials

• Top: Sitka spruce
• Back & Sides: East Indian rosewood
• Neck: Honduran mahogany, modified V profile, mortise & tenon hybrid joint
• Bracing: Sitka spruce, pre-war scalloped X-brace
• Fingerboard: Ebony, no inlay, 14"–26" compound radius
• Body Binding: Ivoroid with b/w/b/w/b purfling; Fingerboard Binding: .060" ivoroid; Peghead Binding: .100" ivoroid with b/w purfling
• Rosette: Abalone (42-style top border)
• Backstrip: 3-style (Chevron)
• Peghead Veneer: Stained exotic ebony with MOP Collings logo and torch inlay, square profile with volute
• Bridge: Ebony belly-style, 2 3/16" spacing; Bridge Pins/End Pin: ebony with abalone dot
• Nut: Bone, 1 11/16" | Saddle: Bone, drop-in
• Tuners: Gold Waverly
• Frets: Medium 18% nickel-silver
• Body Finish: High-gloss nitrocellulose lacquer; Neck Finish: High-gloss polyester resin
• Pickguard: Tortoise
• Strings: D'Addario EJ-16 (.012"–.053")
• Voice: the pre-war scalloped X-brace gives this OM the balanced, articulate response prized by pre-war-style players — full-bodied without losing note separation

Size & Feel

• Body Width: 15" | Body Length: 19 1/4" | Body Depth: 4" | Total Length: 39 3/4"
• Nut Width: 1 11/16" | Scale Length: 25 1/2"

The Details

• Includes Deluxe hardshell case
• Built by Collings Guitars, Austin, Texas

In stock now at Wood & Wire. Pre-war soul, present-day precision!