Like most steel-string guitars, the fingerboard of this model joins the body at the fourteenth fret.

The sound produced generally accentuates higher frequencies than their nylon-stringed counterparts, and a range of styles tend to be played on the steel-stringed guitars. Players often utilise accessories such as plectra, slides, capotastas, or fingerpicks on these types of guitars.

General characteristics of steel-string guitars (with respect to nylon-stringed varieties) include:

• Less rotund body, and slightly more elongated.
• The fingerboard meets the body at the 14th fret.
• Reasonably slim fingerboard (~40mm at the body.)
• Top two* strings are metal wire**, the bottom four consist of wire wrapped in a tight helix*** about a wire core.
• Usually has an asymmetric strut bracing geometry.