R.I.P. Bill Collings (of interest to T-bone)

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R.I.P. Bill Collings (of interest to T-bone)

#1 Post by BackInTex » Mon Jul 17, 2017 9:05 am

Saw this, thought T-bone would be interested, and perhaps others as well.
Luthier Bill Collings died of cancer over the weekend at age 68. Collings was a widely admired guitar maker whose instruments had found their way into the hands of players including Joni Mitchell, Keith Richards, Jerry Jeff Walker, Lyle Lovett, Robert Earl Keen and numerous others.

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 met Lovett in Houston and built a Collings guitar for him.
Here's a nice Texas Monthly profile on him.
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Re: R.I.P. Bill Collings (of interest to T-bone)

#2 Post by T_Bone0806 » Mon Jul 17, 2017 10:03 am

That's some pretty serious clientele right there...
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Re: R.I.P. Bill Collings (of interest to T-bone)

#3 Post by TheConfessor » Tue Jul 18, 2017 3:49 am

A friend of mine was a guitar maker for Collings, as well as an excellent picker in several bands. About six years ago he died of lung cancer. Some blame all the volatile solvents and glues he was exposed to at his job for many years. Being a smoker certainly didn't help.

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