Santa Cruz Guitar Company
Tony Rice Model
Listed at Angel City Guitars · Woodland Hills, CA
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Angel City Guitars’ site.
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Specs
- Top
- Sitka Spruce
- Back / Sides
- East Indian Rosewood
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- D
- Scale length
- 25.375"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- 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.
Angel City Guitars
Angel City Guitars is a Woodland Hills shop in LA's San Fernando Valley, built around boutique electrics, amps, and a deep effects wall — carrying makers like Suhr, Knaggs, Nik Huber, Fano, Shabat, and Tom Anderson, with a steady NAMM-driven flow of new and limited builds. For flat-top shoppers the acoustic corner is small but sharply curated: a high-end shelf anchored by Collings and Santa Cruz, signature and limited editions turning up alongside the standard catalog.
