The Spanish luthier Paulino Bernabé Roman (born in 1960), the son of Paulino Bernabé Almendariz (1932-2007) literally grew up in his father’s shop, formally began he working with his father in the early 1980s, and they worked side by side for 30 years. Like his father, he is a superb craftsman, constant experimenter seeking to improve both construction methods and the sound qualities of the guitar. As Paulino explained his approach to me, "it takes almost as much time to build an estudio model as it does a top concert model (artistic decorations aside), so why waste time building a guitar of inferior materials."  The model 15 is constructed with high quality woods entirely by hand in his Madrid shop using the tools and techniques that traditional luthiers have long used, It is a fully professional guitar, and has the volume, projection, and quality of sound one expects in a concert instrument. The model 15 has the instantly recognizable Bernabé character of all his guitars--a bold, firm Spanish sound, great volume, projection, presence, evenness of tone, balance, and wide palate of color.