Santa Cruz Guitar Company
PJ Custom (2022)
2022 · Listed at The Denver Folklore Center · Denver, CO
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at The Denver Folklore Center’s site.
$9,500
Last seen 6h ago on dealer site
Photos hot-linked from The Denver Folklore Center’s site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Redwood
- Back / Sides
- Walnut
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- PJ
- Scale length
- 23.88"
- Nut width
- 1.69"
- Frets to body
- 12
- Strings
- 6
- Condition
- Preowned
- Year
- 2022
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.
The Denver Folklore Center
Harry Tuft opened the Folklore Center on East 17th Avenue in 1962, modelling it on Izzy Young's shop in Greenwich Village, and it became the room Denver's acoustic scene organised itself around — Judy Collins, Doc Watson and Ramblin' Jack Elliott all passed through, and Swallow Hill Music grew directly out of it. The shop moved to South Pearl Street in 1993 and passed in 2023 to Ian Dehmel, who had worked there for years before buying it. The bench is as much the point as the wall.
