2012 Tobias Berg CD/AR

This 2012 Tobias Berg is a classical guitar with a cedar top and African rosewood back and sides, built in Germany as his guitar #80.

Guitar #80: Cedar and Exotic Rosewood

Light and comfortable, Tobias' guitars are a pleasure to play, with a liquid, beautiful tone and incredible balance. His cedar-top guitars combine fantastic clarity with a spectacular richness, from stacked but controlled overtones. Materials on this guitar are gorgeous, including a very rare set of exotic rosewood for the back and sides, with irregular, gorgeous grain patterns highlighted particularly in the back. Along with a bold and unique appearance, Berg's guitars are very impressive overall, and we are excited to be representing this very talented luthier here at GSI.

Latest Double-Sided Method

This particular guitar (#80) features his latest double-sided construction method, which Tobias has been perfecting for some time - several have passed through here in recent months, to our great pleasure. Our blog post has the full story.

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.