Santa Cruz Guitar Company
Pre-Owned Santa Cruz 1929-00 - with Hard Shell Case
Listed at Five Star Guitars · Beaverton, OR
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Five Star Guitars’ site.
Photos hot-linked from Five Star Guitars’ site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Mahogany
- Back / Sides
- Mahogany
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- 00
- Scale length
- 24.75"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- Frets to body
- 12
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- Preowned
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.
Five Star Guitars
Five Star Guitars is a full-line shop in Beaverton, Oregon, on the west side of the Portland metro — serving players from beginner to pro across a broad floor of electrics, amps, and acoustics. For high-end flat-top shoppers the draw is a modest but real shelf of new Taylors alongside Santa Cruz and Oregon-made Bedell, mixed with rotating consignment and used pieces. What sets the shop apart is its setup discipline: an in-house luthier gives every instrument a full custom setup — fret leveling, truss-rod relief, nut and saddle work, intonation — before it leaves the store, a level of pre-sale work most retailers skip.
