2021 Tobias Berg "630" SP/CSAR

This 2021 Tobias Berg "630" is a classical guitar with a spruce top and CSA rosewood back and sides, built in Germany with a shorter scale for easier stretches.

A Shorter-Scale Berg in CSA Rosewood

Another exceptional guitar from Tobias Berg. Materials are gorgeous, including a stunning set of CSA rosewood for the back and sides, with a silky, rich texture in the grain, paired with a spruce soundboard. Its voice is as elegant as its appearance - velvety and rich across the registers, sturdy and powerful in the bass, smooth and creamy in the treble.

Design

The look is unmistakably Berg - bold and unique, with a headshape, rosette and bridge that reveal his fondness for traditional Japanese architecture and its understated elegance of perfect lines and sharp edges, delicately woven into a design all his own.

Solid Linings and a Carbon-Titanium Neck

It also features his double-sided construction method, which Tobias has been perfecting for many years in his quest to constantly refine his work (see our blog post). For tone, the double sides give a deeper, almost "cathedral-like" presence, a quality we've otherwise heard only in modern Friederich guitars. Tobias also reinforced the neck with a square carbon rod internally laminated with hard rock maple and titanium (unlike many makers of the Madrid school, his is invisible from the outside) - an extremely solid neck without any additional weight, which noticeably enhances sustain. This guitar also uses a solid lining to join the top and sides, a subtle change that seems to give it more punch and a faster, snappier attack, with great ease in producing a wide variety of tone colors. All in all a superb concert guitar, with a bold, beautiful sound and a unique, classy look.

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.