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(More customer reviews)Sweet! Consider that I first bought the Rodriguez C3 Flamenco guitar. It's old school and beautiful, but the action is high and it sounds like a classical guitar, sweet and warm. Not cool if you want flamenco sound. I took it back and got the Córdoba GK Studio. Yeah baby. This model has an excellent brassy flamenco sound with good volume unplugged- big bass, sharp mids and highs. The intonation is spot on. The action is set low at the factory, making it very playable out of the box. Flamenco freaks can pick it up right away and play Leyenda. O, and by the way, this guitar has a truss rod. Truss rods are a staple in steel string guitars for adjusting the neck, but conventional wisdom that nylon strings don't exert as much tension on the neck as steel strings do means that luthiers commonly don't include a truss rod in nylon string guitars.
The Fishman electronics are commendable. There's nothing amazing, but they sound clean and accurately equalized throughout the spectrum. I prefer these over the other two big names, L.R. Baggs and B-Band. The on-board tuner is a bonus.
There's one minor issue: You're going to need a pro setup, about $60.
First, there was some feathering of the frets, meaning the frets stick out just a hair past the fretboard. You can feel them as you move up and down the neck. This is easy to fix and is common among lower priced student guitars. I checked two other GK Studios and found them to be the same.
I also found some vibration at certain frequencies (played notes)- NOT fret buzz. It's very common for guitars with electronics to buzz under the bridge or elsewhere inside because the wire to the preamp or the output jack isn't taped down. I have some VERY nice guitars, and they had the same buzz. Again, an easy fix. To test, I leaned back a little as I played to move the wire away from the wood, and the buzz wuzz gone.
One other thing, a personal preference really, is the 50mm nut width. That's almost 2 inches, but I like a more traditional 52mm width, so I'm splittin hairs.
It comes with a gig bag, but you'll want a hardshell case. It took awhile to research, but the two best fitting cases I found are the Road Runner Classical HSC or better yet, the OSP Deluxe ABS Hardshell Case.
Many happy rasgueados!
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