The 12 Jet belongs to Cordoba's Fusion series, a line of high quality crossover or hybrid style nylon string guitars designed to play and feel like steel string acoustics. Most notably, the 12 Jet's neck is carved thinner than traditional Spanish-style "classical" guitars and it has a nut width of 48mm (1-7/8"). The slimmer dimensions combined with a radiused fingerboard give the Fusion 12 Jet the feel and playability that most steel string and electric guitar players are used to. Tonally the Fusion 12 Jet has all the warmth, body, and resonance that traditional "classical" nylon string guitars are known for, and are built using traditional Spanish guitar methods like domed soundboards and fan bracing patterns. The Cordoba 12 Jet is built with a solid Canadian cedar top and Indian rosewood back and sides. It gets its name from its "jet" black finish, a high gloss polyurethane black that goes beautifully with the guitar's Mother-of-Pearl appointments on the headstock and rosette. The Jet 12 closely resembles a traditional classical guitar, and allows the bridge to sit a bit further back on the soundboard, where resonance is optimized for a large sound with long sustain. The fingerboard and bridge are rosewood, neck has 12 frets to the body, and comes with a deluxe Cordoba gig bag.