Cordoba Luthier Select Esteso Cedar Top Classical Guitar with Case

The Esteso is a lightweight, small body guitar with a full size scale length. Its elegant appointments perfectly complement the Esteso�s incredibly balanced voice. The Esteso is lightweight with an incredible tone. This Cordoba Esteso is built with a solid Canadian Cedar, paired with solid Pau Ferro back and sides. The Cordoba Esteso has a more petite body shape than many full size guitars, measuring 13 � inches at the lower bout. It has a 650mm scale length, 52mm nut width, and a comfortable classical guitar neck profile. Additional features include a Spanish cedar neck topped with an African ebony fingerboard, flamed maple binding, intricate pearloid rosette, nitrocellulose finish, and Esteso�s 5-fan bracing pattern. Cordoba added a few modern refinements such as a truss rod, geared tuning machines, durable finish, and non-gut strings. The result is an instrument that exemplifies authentic Esteso designs, voicing, and feel, and captures a rare piece of guitar making history.

Specifications:

• Top: Solid Canadian Cedar
• Back & Sides: Solid Pau Ferro
• Binding/Bridge: Flamed Maple binding/Rosewood bridge
• Purfling/Inlay: All wood rope pattern purfling
• Rosette: 1931 Domingo Esteso rosette
• Finish: Nitrocellulose
• Neck/Fingerboard: Spanish Cedar neck/ Ebony fingerboard
• Truss Rod: Two-Way Adjustable, 4mm
• Scale Length: 650mm
• Nut Width: 52mm
• Fret Marker Inlays: 5, 7, 9
• Nut/Saddle: Bone
• Number of Frets: 19
• Bracing/Build: 1931 Esteso 5 fan bracing
• Body Width & Length: 266.70 mm at upper bout/ 349.25 mm at lower bout/ 482.60 mm body length
• Overall Length: 977.90 mm (38 1/2 in) total length
• Body Depth95.25 mm at upper bout/ 98.43 mm at lower bout
• Strings: Savarez Cristal Corum High Tension - 500CJ
• Case: Cordoba Humidified Archtop Wood Case