classical acoustic guitar - recommendations?

[choucas09]

Pics would be helpful.

[jonathanf]

Of course there's also all that wonderful Andalusian food, great Tapas bars and the fantastic scenery through the Sierra Nevada national park; if you're into mountain biking (like me) it's single track Nirvana!!

uhh... no... OK, i don't know about the price of classical, hand made, whatever guitars in granada but in sevilla everything is waaayyyy more expensive. Everything is, a ps3 game is 70 euros for example.

[gwEm]

this clearly needs more research on my part. but everything i read here is very useful, not to mention fascinating.. thanks all.

i tried to learn some basic pickings last night on my strat, but the string spacing wasn't really helping me.

[gwEm]

Pics would be helpful.

yeah, it would get the GAS going too :)

[Bob Johnson]

Of course there's also all that wonderful Andalusian food, great Tapas bars and the fantastic scenery through the Sierra Nevada national park; if you're into mountain biking (like me) it's single track Nirvana!!

uhh... no... OK, i don't know about the price of classical, hand made, whatever guitars in granada but in sevilla everything is waaayyyy more expensive. Everything is, a ps3 game is 70 euros for example.

There are lots of classical guitars out there. I have a very expensive Japanese concert guitar and a relatively cheap Spanish guitar. The  Spanish guitar is not as well finished but it sounds a lot better. It has Acacia sides, a Mahogany back and a Cedar neck with a rosewood fingerboard. Made by Azaha in Valencia. It cost me about two thirds of the price in Spain as it would have done in the UK. Most Spanish guitar makers have a factory shop, you may pay a little more than the UK importers do but it is still going to be a lot better than the UK High Street price. Work it out. No importers margin, no retailers margin and no UK VAT on the profit margins. DUH ! :)

[Bob Johnson]

Of course if you want to spend a couple of thousand on a really top notch classical guitar there's Kenneth Leftwich who lives and works just down the road from me.