I've never played a Collings, Mick. I have 4 acoustics here, the one I play (or played) the most is an Ibanez. The others are all Martins, a 1930s Martin, (not currently playable as it needs a bridge repair, a 1967 6 string Martin and a 1968 12 string Martin (which I used to have a lot of fun playing Wish You Were Here on, sounded brilliant on that). I have an issue with my left hand/fretting hand where I can't get my third and fourth fingers to do what I want them to do. I saw Tim Pierce had a similar issue and it turned out he had a pinched nerve, which he was able to take care of. He's a billion times better guitar player than I have ever been so...I would not compare myself to him. 

Do you have an electric you like playing? My primary electric is a Fender Strat, a Japanese made one from the late 1980s or 1990. Very nice guitar. I bought it when I was in the midst of writing and recording music and I wanted to play some leads on the recordings. I was going to go with a Les Paul, but played some and preferred the neck on the Strat. I would eventually buy a 1980s Les Paul, it was a tricked out model that was white with all gold hardware on it. I bought it because it was sold to me cheap by a friend of my younger brother. In truth, I never liked it. The guy that owned it was as heavy a chain smoker as you would ever meet. I don't think he ever inhaled a breath that did not include smoke from the time he was in high school until he was 30. So, the guitar smelled of cigarette smoke, the neck was a deep yellow, and the rest of the guitar had horrible yellow stains on it. I tried playing it and never could stand the thing. I ended up having another friend of my brother and his pal come to see me to buy some of my guitars, I sold them two Gibsons, the white and gold cigarette stained Les Paul and a 1970s Gibson Marauder, which I was also not that crazy about while I owned it. It was an odd guitar, that appeared to be Gibson's effort to make a Fender style guitar. The one I had though was kind of unique as first it was yellow with metal flake in the paint. So, it looked sort of like a 1970s kitchen counter top. Ugly as hell. It had a better neck than the Les Paul but honestly, the Strat won me over. I kind of wish I kept that Marauder now though because looking them up, I've never seen one with that yellow sparkle finish. Weird, but reading about them, they made very few that had a different finish than the three or four main ones they did. The Marauder had the Les Paul shaped body with a flying V headstock. It had a better neck, I thought, than the 1980s Les Paul I had.

There are a couple other electrics in my house right now, a Gretch Country Gentleman that is the Chet Atkins model from the early 1960s, I believe, a Hagstrom 12 string electric that is probably a late 1960s model. This is the guitar except the one I have is white:

RARE HAGSTROM 12 String SOLID BODY GUITAR 1 owner 1966 Original Case “clean” | eBay

I chatted with David about the Hagstrom a long time back and he gave me some tips on how to clean up the neck because the finish on it had cracked and chipped off in places and made the thing really uncomfortable to play but it sounded incredibly cool when you plugged it in to an amp. 

So, a mistake in my first post about Gilmore's Blackie, he did NOT get it from Clapton (I confused that with another guitar story) he bought it at Manny's in New York after someone stole all of Floyd's gear after a show in New Orleans. They recovered everything except Gilmore's guitars. Blackie is basically labeled a "Partscaster" because all Gilmore did was experiment with ripping it apart and doing different things to it. It had 6 or 8 necks on it, multiple pick-up changes, and they cut it up to put a different tremelo on it, which later he took back off and they had to put a block of wood in to replace the hole. So, it was basically a Frankenstein guitar but was only owned by Gilmore. So, Clapton had nothing to do with that one.