The guitar is a beauty. It looks gorgeous, with a mirror finish and made with cedar soundboard (top), rosewood sides and back, mahogany neck, and ebony fretboard. It has quality nylon strings and very high quality tuning machines. The guitar is extremely well manufactured--made in China--and the overall craftsmanship is impeccable.
The Cordoba C10 is much easier to play than either of my other guitars--one a luthier handcrafted model--and has a lovely full and mellow sound with fuller bass but better balanced middle and treble, and produces about 3-5 times more volume.
The setup is also very well done. Serious guitar players will appreciate the difference made by appropriate adjustments of a small fraction of an inch in fretboard width, nut height, scale length, and "action" (height of strings above fretboard), and the absolutely flat alignment of the tops of the frets. The slightly wider fretboard makes finding and isolating a string easier, and the fret height and action makes getting clean notes and barre's easier.
Serious guitarists will also appreciate the very well designed and built "body" to the guitar, acoustically engineered bracing of the soundboard, and very accurate placement of the bridge. The C10 has all that, while looking like a piece of extremely fine woodworker's (luthier's) art!
The supplied case is a substantial soft-shell case featuring a black cordura exterior, thick semi-rigid foam padding, a burgundy plush interior, zipper closing, shoulder/backpack straps, slender exterior zip pocket, and lidded interior pocket for holding accessories. A pro guitarist friend said "Ooooo! Very nice. That case is very interesting. I like it!
Yeah, I really like my new C10 guitar. "More fun than Christmas!! " is how I described it to far-flung family. However, now any technical or musical goofs I make in playing have no excuses--I need to up my playing level to match the guitar!