Santa Cruz Guitar Company
Santa Cruz OOO
Listed by Northern Lights Music · Littleton, NH
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Specs
- Top
- Redwood
- Back / Sides
- Walnut
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- 000
- Scale length
- 25.375"
- Nut width
- 1.75"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Condition
- New
About 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 by hand in a strictly climate-controlled workshop. The shop's connection with Tony Rice — the Tony Rice Model is modeled on his pre-war Martin D-28 — anchored its reputation in bluegrass flatpicking, and the catalog has expanded over five decades into a deep custom-shop operation where most builds are individually specified rather than spec-built.
About Northern Lights Music
Northern Lights Music is a family-owned independent in Littleton, New Hampshire, operating since 1978 from a Main Street storefront in the heart of the White Mountains. The shop's boutique acoustic floor runs unusually deep for a town its size — Bourgeois is the standout, alongside Santa Cruz, Collings, Lowden, and Huss & Dalton, with rotating inventory from Froggy Bottom, Goodall, Preston Thompson, Greven, Larrivée, and McPherson. New and used sit side by side, and the used catalog regularly turns up vintage examples of the same builders. The shop's geographic position — roughly three hours north of Boston and four from Montreal — makes it a destination dealer for upper New England and southern Quebec rather than a walk-by retailer.
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