José Morilla Díaz guitars

José Morilla Díaz was born in Aguadulce (Seville) in 1958. At the age of 21, he specialized as a cabinetmaker, a job that would occupy him for 40 years and in which he demonstrated his skill with wood. Throughout his career, he had an interest in guitar and its construction but was unable to pursue it due to personal reasons. After closing his cabinetmaking workshop at the age of 60 and establishing a special friendship with the master artisan Jesús de Jiménez, from the neighboring town of Gilena, who opened the doors of his workshop to him and gradually taught him this wonderful craft. Thanks to José’s continuous curiosity, combined with the constant support of his friend Jesús de Jiménez, in 2018 he began to build a guitar for his daughters, thus beginning his journey as a luthier.