2018 Luis Fernández de Córdoba CD/IN

A 2018 classical guitar by Luis Fernández de Córdoba, with a cedar top and a four-piece back of exceptionally exotic Indian rosewood – woods that had been aging in his workshop since he opened it in 2001.

In the videos above, Jack Davisson plays Dizzy Gillespie's "A Night in Tunisia" (arr. Roland Dyens), and the Belgrade Guitar Duo plays Mario Gangi's "Suite Italiana" on this guitar and its 2016 sister.

Woods Aged Seventeen Years

The sides have a satin look with contrasting black lines, and the back shows browns, reds and greens with a wavy figure cascading from the waist. The flamed maple binding is rounded at the edge for comfort, and the rosette's teal blues and wine reds recall the Madrid guitars of the 1930s by Santos and Esteso.

Flexible Cross Braces

Five fans, as in a Bouchet, are combined with two flexible cross braces instead of one rigid bar, tapered from treble to bass and set slightly lower than the fans – for clarity and plenty of warmth. Rich, wholesome and balanced, it is pre-owned and in like-new condition.

Luis Fernández de Córdoba: From Panama to Alexandria

Luis Fernández de Córdoba is a Panamanian-born luthier who works in Alexandria, Virginia, near Washington, D.C. He began building in 2000, opened his workshop in 2001 and, after years of building and repairing all kinds of acoustic guitars, has devoted himself exclusively to classical and flamenco guitars since 2009. He apprenticed in the USA and in Granada, Spain, and has worked alongside makers in Spain, Mexico and Argentina.

Inspired by the Spanish Masters

He has studied the great makers of the past – Antonio de Torres, Santos Hernández, Hermann Hauser I, Manuel Velázquez, José Romanillos and Robert Bouchet – and visited the workshops of Richard and Marshall Brune and of Jeffrey Elliott, another of his inspirations. He is a member of the Guild of American Luthiers.