Santa Cruz Guitar Company
OO Custom Cutaway Bearclaw Italian Spruce / Highly Figured Walnut
Listed at Heartbreaker Guitars · Las Vegas, NV · Dealer ref #1255
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Heartbreaker Guitars’ site.
Photos hot-linked from Heartbreaker Guitars’ site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Italian Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Walnut
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- 00
- Scale length
- 24.75"
- Nut width
- 1 11/16"
- Frets to body
- 12
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- Yes
- Condition
- New
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.
Heartbreaker Guitars
Heartbreaker Guitars has operated in Las Vegas, Nevada for over a decade, focused on high-end acoustics — Lowden, Bourgeois, Santa Cruz, Furch, Huss & Dalton, McPherson, and Rick Turner among the regular catalog. The 2,600-square-foot showroom is appointment-based. Each listing shows the actual serial-specific guitar photographed in-house, and every shipped instrument receives a 30-point inspection and setup from the in-house tech before it leaves. The back of the space — the Heartbreaker Lounge — has a functional stage for in-store performances and demos.