Santa Cruz Guitar Company

1934 D Mahogany - Old Growth Adirondack/Old Growth Mahogany (2023)

2023 · Listed at Organic Sounds Select Guitars · Santa Ana, CA

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Specs

Top
Adirondack Spruce
Back / Sides
Mahogany
Neck
Mahogany
Fingerboard
Ebony
Body shape
D
Scale length
25.25"
Nut width
1 11/16"
Frets to body
14
Strings
6
Cutaway
No
Condition
Preowned
Year
2023

Santa Cruz Guitar Company

Santa Cruz Guitar Company has built guitars in Santa Cruz, California since 1976, when Richard Hoover founded the shop to bring violin-lutherie traditions into acoustic guitar building. Each top is tap-tuned and voiced by hand in a strictly climate-controlled workshop. Its connection with Tony Rice — the Tony Rice Model evokes the pre-war Martin D-28 voice he was known for — anchored its reputation in bluegrass flatpicking, and over five decades the catalog has grown into a deep custom-shop operation where most builds are individually specified rather than spec-built.

Organic Sounds Select Guitars

Organic Sounds Select Guitars is Larry and Debbie's family-run shop on N. Tustin Avenue in central Santa Ana, in the heart of Orange County. The shop's name doubles as its philosophy: "the right instrument feels alive in your hands, it feels organic" is the marketing line, and the curation reflects that — a focused, intentional catalog of around 300 instruments rather than a high-volume retail floor. The active boutique acoustic shelf runs deep on Huss & Dalton (one of the deepest H&D inventories in the atlas) and Santa Cruz (vintage 1929-D, Tony Rice signature, 50th Anniversary, and OM-Skye coverage), with rotating Lowden, Goodall, Gallagher, McNally, Olson, Waterloo, Kevin Ryan, Preston Thompson, TreeHouse, and Bourgeois. The storefront also hosts a periodic live concert series featuring touring acoustic players, and the shop is a short drive from the Anaheim Convention Center (home of the winter NAMM show). For Southern California boutique-acoustic shoppers — especially those tracking H&D — Organic Sounds is one of the deepest in-person catalogs in the region.

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