Santa Cruz Guitar Company
Custom Baritone Acoustic Guitar
Listed at Acoustic Vibes Music · Tempe, AZ
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Acoustic Vibes Music’s site.
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Specs
- Top
- Adirondack Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Figured Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- Baritone
- Scale length
- 27"
- Nut width
- 1 7/8"
- Frets to body
- 12
- 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.
Acoustic Vibes Music
Acoustic Vibes Music is based in Tempe, Arizona, with a wide catalog spanning boutique builders alongside more accessible lines. Inside their boutique acoustic section sits a steady rotation of Bourgeois, Collings, Atkin, Furch, Larrivée, and Lowden — a meaningful presence in the high-end Western US market.