2008 Tobias Berg CD/IN

Year	2008
Top	Cedar
Back & Sides	Indian Rosewood
Scale Length	650 mm
Nut width	52 mm
Finish	French Polish
Country	Germany
Luthier	Tobias Berg

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Description

This 2008 Tobias Berg is a classical guitar with a cedar top and Indian rosewood back and sides, built in Germany refreshed by German Vázquez Rubio.

Cedar Warmth with Clarity

This guitar is light in weight and therefore very comfortable and fun to play. It has a beautiful, liquid quality to the tone and is incredibly balanced. Cedar brings warmth and openness here, yet keeps the fantastic clarity of his spruce guitars, adding a spectacular richness from stacked but controlled overtones.

Recognition and Condition

Professional guitarists were quickly recognizing his work - Jan Erler of the Heinrich Albert Duo, Humberto De Lucia (winner of the 2011 Alirio Díaz Competition) and Alp Ozan (winner of the 2011 Zuidlaren Guitar Competition) among them - and Scott Tennant also bought one of his guitars from us. Although it is a used guitar, it has no damage or repairs, only some minor wear in the finish - most of which is now invisible, as it was recently cleaned up by German Vázquez Rubio.

Background

Tobias Berg: From Sweden to Germany

Tobias Berg was born in 1972 in Helsingborg, Sweden, and grew up in the fishing village of Viken. After building his first classical guitar in 1995, he set out to learn the art and craft of guitar making, with courses and diplomas in Canada, England and the USA and time spent with top luthiers including Robert Ruck and Jeffrey Elliott. In 1998 he settled in Germany, where he worked for six years at Lakewood Guitars before earning the German master title (Meister) in Mittenwald in 2004 and opening his own workshop. Today he works in Kirchhain-Anzefahr, in Hesse.

Light, Compact Guitars with Double Sides

Tobias builds traditional, lightweight guitars with a slightly compact body, in the spirit of the Spanish makers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and since 2011 he has built them with double sides - a practice known from Madrid builders and from Daniel Friederich, whom he holds in very high esteem. His headstock, rosette and bridge designs reflect a fondness for traditional Japanese architecture. GSI has been working with Tobias since 2005, when he sent us his 20th guitar; in 2026 he built his 50th guitar for us.