The Protégé Series C1 from Cordoba is a full-size nylon-string classical guitar with a high-gloss finish. It utilizes a spruce top with mahogany back and sides, and provides aesthetics such as a Hauser-style mosaic inlay around its soundhole and ABS binding. At the headstock, Cordoba gold tuning machines with pearl buttons secure the strings, providing a gear ratio of 14:1 and a string roller spacing of 35mm. A rosewood bridge anchors the strings to the body.
The guitar’s mahogany neck sports a 25.6” scale with a C-shaped profile, a rosewood fingerboard with 19 frets, and side marker inlays at the fifth, seventh, and ninth frets. The neck also includes a two-way adjustable truss rod. With these features, this guitar is quite suitable to those just learning how to play classical guitar.
Neck Features
Fingerboard: Rosewood
Profile: C Shape
Truss Rod: 0.2" / 4mm
Scale Length: 25.6" / 650mm
String Spacing at Saddle: 2.2" / 55mm
Nut Width: 2.0" / 52mm
Nut Material: Composite
Fret Marker Inlays: Side Dot Inlays at Fifth, Seventh, and Ninth Frets
Number of Frets: 12 to Body, 19 Total
Tuning Machines: Gold Tuners with Pearl Buttons
Body Features
Back and Sides: Mahogany
Binding: ABS
Bridge: Rosewood
Rosette: Mosaic Inlay
Finish: High-Gloss PU
Bracing: Fan
Body Width x Depth (Upper Bout): 11.2 x 3.8" / 285.0 x 98.0mm
Body Width x Depth (Lower Bout): 14.6 x 3.9" / 370.0 x 99.0mm
Overall Length: 39.1" / 993.8 mm
Cordoba C1 Specs
| Right/Left Handed | Right-Handed |
| Number of Strings | 6 |
| Body Type | Classical |
| Cutaway | Non-Cutaway |
| Body Wood | Top: Spruce Back: Mahogany Wings: Mahogany |
| Neck Type | Set Neck |
| Neck Wood | Mahogany |
| Fingerboard | Rosewood |
| Number of Frets | 19 |
| Scale Length | 25.6" / |
| Nut Width | 52 mm |
| Bridge Type | Rosewood |
| Pickguard | No |
| Package Weight | 6.4 lb |
| Box Dimensions (LxWxH) | 45 x 18 x 5.8" |