Ignacio M. Rozas
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The Spanish luthier Ignacio M. Rozas was born in 1943 in Mesones, Guadalajara. As young man, he apprenticed as a cabinet maker in Madrid. In need of competent wood-workers, Jose Ramirez and his foreman Paulino Bernabe approached him and offered him a job. He apprenticed as a guitar maker with José Ramirez, working there from 1959 to 1969. After leaving Ramirez, he went to work for Manuel Contreras, a former Ramirez craftsmen who had set up his own shop. Ignacio Rozas worked as a luthier for Contreras building flamenco and classical guitars as he had for Ramirez from 1970 to 1987. In that year, he established his own shop. In 2001, Ignacio ceased building for about a year. He has resumed building his handmade classical and flamenco guitars, and now shares the workshop of the guitar makers Mariano Tezanos and Teodoro Pérez, who were also former Ramirez luthiers, and old friends.
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