In Being Texan: Collings Guitars, you’ll take a trip inside the nondescript space, where craftsmen turn good wood into great guitars (acoustic and electric) as well as mandolins and ukuleles.

These days, the company annually produces about 1,700 acoustic guitars, including the Depression-era Waterloo line, 500 electric guitars and 400 mandolins. The wait time to purchase a Collings ...

On top of that, for the past two years Collings has been designing and building prototypes of his company's most ambitious product yet – a line of handcrafted electric guitars.

Collings dropped out of medical school and moved from Ohio to Houston in 1975, where he worked as an engineer for a pipeline company during the day. At night he built guitars. Three years later he ...

Soon, Huff was presented with a new challenge -- making an electric guitar worthy of the Collings name. Since the company started in 1989, Collings had only ever made acoustic guitars.

Bill Collings has spoken about wanting the sound of "ripping cardboard" from his I35LC - something he hears in great old Gibsons. Well, there's a lovely 'dryness' about the guitar that makes it full ...

Collings has released its I-30 LC hollowbody electric guitar, first teased at NAMM 2017. A new ‘trestle’ braced body couples the neck and tail block for increased strength and acoustic energy ...

The creative force behind guitars played all over the world has passed away. Bill Collings, the Founder and CEO of Collings Guitars, died Friday. He was with the company for 40 years. His guitars ...

It's beginning to rain on a hot afternoon in Austin, Texas, but Bill Collings doesn't seem to notice. Sitting across from me in a rusty metal chair behind his factory that makes guitars, mandolins and ...

It's beginning to rain on a hot afternoon in Austin, Texas, but Bill Collings doesn't seem to notice. Sitting across from me in a rusty metal chair behind his factory that makes guitars, mandolins and ...