2014 Dominik Wurth CD/IN

This 2014 Dominik Wurth is a classical guitar with a cedar top and Indian rosewood back and sides, built in his workshop in the Alpujarras near Granada, Spain, one of the first Wurth guitars to come to GSI.

A Cedar-Top Wurth from Andalusia

Dominik's greatest influence is Antonio de Torres, and this guitar follows the basic Torres plan - a domed top with seven fan struts and a tunneled lower cross bar under the soundhole for the two outer struts. He is also inspired by Daniel Friederich and Antonio Marín Montero, adopting their strong cross stiffness below the bridge so that the top can be thinner: the result is a big sound with no boominess in the basses and a warm, colorful treble. Double sides (as with Friederich) bring power and projection, and Dominik's special technique - adding wood only where it pays off acoustically - keeps the guitar light, in the Granada manner.

Dominik Wurth: From the Black Forest to Granada

Dominik Wurth was born in 1982 in Ettenheim, near Freiburg, Germany, and spent his childhood in a small rural village at the foot of the Black Forest. He discovered the guitar in his early twenties, and soon wanted a better instrument than his beginner guitar - so he decided to build one. In those early years he learned with the aid of books and from Sascha Nowak of Freiburg, who taught him the traditional techniques of guitar making. In 2007 he enrolled at Zwickau University (Faculty of Applied Arts, Schneeberg), the world's only university offering the study of stringed-instrument making, graduating in 2012; along the way he also earned the German master title for plucked-instrument making.

A Gitarrenbaumeister in Bad Krozingen

Dominik then spent several years in the south of Spain, in a small village in the Alpujarras near Granada, where he interned with Andrés D. Marvi and then opened his own shop. He later moved back to Germany, where he builds guitars full time - today in Bad Krozingen, just south of Freiburg. GSI is his US dealer.