Our smallest model is a rarity among fractional size guitars: most listeners never guess that it’s not a full-size instrument unless they see it being played. While lacking the deep bass of larger guitars, the tone is remarkably balanced with adequate volume for most applications.

The Collings Baby is approximately a ¾ size version of our OM, 12 ½ inches wide in the lower bout with a 24 ⅛ inch scale, and the headstock and bridge are also scaled to match. Sometimes the Baby is used as a travel guitar, but it often sees duty as a songwriter’s tool: ready at a moment’s notice and playable while seated in any position.

Top: Sitka Spruce
Back & Sides: East Indian Rosewood
Neck: Honduran Mahogany
Body Binding: Ivoroid with Herringbone Purfling
Fingerboard Binding: None
Peghead Binding: None
Bridge: Ebony Small Belly-Style with 2 3/16" Spacing
Fingerboard: Ebony with Abalone Short Diamond & Squares
Fingerboard Radius: 14" - 26" Compound
Bridge Pins/End Pin: Ebony with Mother-of-Pearl Dot
Nut: Bone, 1 11/16"
Saddle: Bone, Drop-In
Neck Profile: Modified V
Peghead Profile: Square with Volute
Neck Joint: Mortise & Tenon Hybrid
Truss Rod: Fully Adjustable
Frets: Medium 18% Nickel-Silver
Peghead Veneer: Stained Exotic Ebony with Mother-of-Pearl Collings Logo
Tuners: Nickel Waverly
Backstrip: 2-Style (Zipper)
Rosette: Iv/Tort/Iv & B/W Purflings
Scale Length: 24 1/8"
Brace Material: Sitka Spruce
Brace Pattern: Pre-War Scalloped X-Brace
Body Finish: High Gloss Nitrocellulose Lacquer
Neck Finish: High Gloss Polyester Resin
Pickguard: Tortoise
Strings: D'Addario EJ-16 (.012" - .053")
Case: Deluxe Hardshell Case