Description & Specs
Cádiz offers responsive and engaging nylon string guitars of a quality and playability players adore. Everything about these guitars is considered and chosen. They are a new shape, different to Classicals we have made in the past—slightly taller, slightly narrower, more elegant. The soundbox is more lightly built; the tops are graduated and each brace is custom cut and sanded with four varying widths in total.
The bracing design gives a nod to that of Jose Ramirez III’s asymmetric architecture in the guitars’ treble bar. This is to stiffen up the treble side of the top which helps create round, bell-like trebles on our first three strings. We keep the bass side of the top light by using slightly thinner braces, giving the player open, clear and strong bass response.
To make the guitars as responsive as we could, we keep them as light in construction as possible while still staying true to traditional design, so in the standard models there are no trussrods. Our necks are three-piece and a solid Ebony center rod gives us the strength and lightness we need. Our Hybrid models do have a trussrod to allow for relief to be adjusted on the radiused fingerboards. Cádiz models are also made with a Spanish heel neck joint.
Ramirez and other great luthiers also influenced us when it came to choosing our scale length. The Cádiz scale length is longer than the standard 650mm (25.6”) you will find on many classical guitars. At 660mm (26”) our scale length raises the tension just a little and helps deliver more energy into the soundbox for us to harness and shape.
Other fine appointments include the use of traditional Cypress wood for our Flamenco model back and sides, which is paired with ebony binding. Our classical models are stunning with dark Walnut back and sides and Acacia binding. We use AA Sitka tops on all Cádiz models. Saddle and nut are real bone, rosettes are wood mosaic and bridges and fingerboards are Pau Ferro.
Case: Sold separately
Condition:
This instrument is in excellent near mint condition played for testing purposes only. The certified techs reported no issues and it has little to no play wear. It looks, plays and sounds great! The actual item for sale is shown in the photographs
More Info:
We are an authorized dealer for brand approved manufacturer refurbished guitars. These guitars are sent directly from the manufacturer to the authorized refurbishing center where they are fully inspected, set up and cleared by a certified technician. They are sent there for many reasons, including: returns, cosmetic flaws, minor repairs, surplus & discontinued or last years models. The guitars serial number may be partially altered and/or replaced and the back of the headstock is lightly stamped "used" by the authorized refurbishing center per manufacturer agreements.
