The I35 Deluxe combines our most premium features with the rich and harmonically complex sound of all solid wood construction. As part of its trim package, the dark textures of the I35 Deluxe’s rosewood fingerboard and ebony faceplate are highlighted by ivoroid fingerboard and peghead binding. Each Deluxe series guitar is also fitted with ivoroid “top hat” knobs and pickup rings that are hand made in house solely for this series of instruments. Uncompromising in every feature, the I35 Deluxe is built for the discerning electric guitarist.
Standard Features Include:
•Premium figured maple top over semi-hollow mahogany body
•Inset maple center block and mahogany neck
•Custom Ordered Tortoise Binding top/back/neck/peghead binding
•Slim contour F-holes
•High gloss nitrocellulose lacquer finish
•Single-bound “Haircut” headstock
•15 degree headstock angle
•Ebony or rosewood peghead overlay with inlaid Collings logo
•Brazilian Rosewood fingerboard
•Long mortise and tenon neck joint w/contoured heel
•22 Frets, neck joins the body at the 19th fret
•Medium-Fat “C” neck shape
•12″ Fingerboard radius
•1 11/16″ Bone nut
•24 7/8″ Scale length
•Medium 18% nickel-silver fretwire
•Mother of pearl dot fingerboard inlays
•Fully adjustable truss rod
•Custom ordered black rings and Ebony hat knobs
•Dual Lollar low-wind Imperial humbuckers
•1950’s style wiring scheme
•CTS 500K pots and Jupiter Yellow Vintage Tone capacitors
•Switchcraft toggle switch and output jack
•Tonepros AVR-II bridge and tailpiece
•Custom Ordered Sperzel with Ebony Buttons 1:18 ratio
•Recommended string gauge – D’Addario EXL-115 (.011″-.049″)
•Collings deluxe hardshel