Fender FC-1 Full Size Classical Guitar

Fender's FC-1 classical guitar is an affordable and great-sounding instrument that doesn't compromise on tone, feel or value.

Features include a laminated spruce top with fan bracing, laminated basswood back and sides, traditional classical body shape, wide neck with comfortable "U"-shaped profile and Fender classical headstock shape, flat fingerboard radius and 2-inch nut width.

A classical guitar differs from a steel-string acoustic in a number of ways. 

Most important for beginning players, classical guitars use nylon strings, which are easier on the fingers and produce a beautiful tone. 

Classical guitars typically have thinner tops and lighter bracing than steel-string guitars, with a bracing pattern that "fans" out from the soundhole toward the bottom of the guitar.

This fan-like placement of the individual braces makes an important contribution to the rich nylon-string classical tone that guitarists and listeners have loved for ages. 

Spruce is the standard modern tonewood for fashioning the tops of acoustic guitars and other acoustic instruments--few woods can beat its strength, brightness and dynamic range, and it responds well to any acoustic playing style, from hard strumming to fast flatpicking to delicate fingerpicking.