2010 Manuel Adalid, Viviana Professional Flamenca Negra Guitar

Manuel Adalid (b. 1951) is a second generation luthier, and head luthier at Esteve. He is widely respected in Spain as among the most experimental and innovative guitar makers in Spain. Although the Esteve makes production guitars, Manuel Adalid maintains his own workshop within Esteve, where he carries on experiments and personally makes the guitars that he sells under his own name.

2008 Gabriel Hernandez Jimenez, Concert Classical Guitar

Gabriel Hernández Jimenez is luthier in Paracho Michoacán, Mexico, who was born in 1965. As a luthier his preparation and work experience have made one of Mexico's foremost luthiers. He has studied with Daniel Telles in Mexico, D.F.

2010 Salvador Castillo, Flamenca Negra

Salvador Castillo (b.2006) is one of the rising stars among luthier from Paracho, Mexico. He is the son of the guitar maker, Ramiro Castillo Barajas, and has also worked closely with Abel Garcia.

2009 Jesús Bellido, 2a Concert Classical Guitar

2009 Jesus Bellido 2a Concert Classical Guitar, (cedar top). Jesus Bellido is the son of Manuel Bellido, and a fine luthier in his own right. This 2a concert classical guitar is model that has everything one could ask for in a concert guitar: power, great tone, and character- a wonderful, vibrant, full-bodied basses, and substantial lovely singing trebles, at a great price.

2001 Rodrigo Moreira, Concert Classical Guitar

Rodrigo Moreira is a Brazilian luthier, whose guitars are becoming well-known, and now sell new for $4500-5000. Although he learned his craft in Brazil from his grandfather, he now resides in Massachusetts.  He is also the president of the Brazilian Rosewood Foundation which exports legal Brazilian rosewood from stumps left over in old logging areas.

1966 Vicente Camacho, Garrido Concert Guitar

Vicente Perez Camacho was born  in Madrid in 1928. Like so many guitar makers of his epoch he apprenticed first as a cabinet maker, beginning his working life when he was eleven. In 1952, he decided to apprentice with Modest Borreguero (1901-1969, one of the famous guitar makers to come out of the Manuel Ramirez workshop, who he had known since 1943.

1990 Lorenzo Pimentel, Grand Concert

Lorenzo Pimentel, born in Durango, Mexico 1929, made his first guitar at age 15 in a Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, workshop under the guidance of two brothers. In 1951 Lorenzo and his wife Josefina established Pimentel Guitars  They moved to Albuquerque in 1963 with a few hand tools, founded Pimentel & Sons Guitar Makers Inc.

1992 Josep Ferré, Model C-3a, Classical Guitar*

Josep González Farré was born in 1922 in Barcelona. He began his career as a cabinet-maker, but in 1954 turned to making guitars. From 1956 to 1964 he worked for the Juan Estruche factory.

1984 José Ramirez, 1a Classical Guitar

Jose Ramirez III (born 1922) was the third generation of luthiers in the Ramirez family. He joined the workshop in 1940, and apprenticed under his father (Jose Ramirez II) and the other journeymen working there.

2013 Manuel Adalid, 1937 Hauser ex Segovia

This guitar made by Manuel Adalid is a copy of Segovia's 1937 Hermann Hauser guitar, which he called "the greatest guitar of the century," and used from 1937 to 1952. I have compared this guitar to Hauser's own guitars, and find that Manuel has hit a bulleye in capturing the Hauser sound.