Re: Torrified Red Spruce vs. Carpthian
I have the whole palette of Collings mandolins here right now. Torrified, varnish, italian , etc. you need to play them all to get a good assessment. Collings spent a lot of time developing all these variations and it shows. I wasn’t sold on the torrified models either until I played them and compared them to the others. I have a torrified top and an all torrified model. Same specs aside from the torrified back and sides. Is there a difference? Heck yeah. The tone and volume is even across all the registers on the all torrified model.
It is all going to depend on the builder, but Collings has been able to continually push the envelope with these builds. Indeed the wood is harder to work with, but they seem to be working through this.
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