Santa Cruz Guitar Company
D12 Maple Acoustic Guitar 2014 [USED]
Listed at The Twelfth Fret · Toronto, ON
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at The Twelfth Fret’s site.
$8,565 USD
CA$12,000 CAD
Last seen 14h ago on dealer site
Photos hot-linked from The Twelfth Fret’s site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Italian Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Maple
- Body shape
- Dreadnought
- Scale length
- 25.4"
- 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 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 Twelfth Fret
The Twelfth Fret has been a Toronto institution since 1977, when Grant MacNeill and Dan Charman opened it on Kingston Road; they moved to their current east-end Danforth Avenue building in 2000. The shop describes itself as "instrument builders who also sell guitars" — a six-luthier workshop is the spine of the business, and the retail catalog grew around it. Boutique acoustics arrived in the 1990s, and today's catalog leans heavy on Canadian-made Boucher and Larrivée Master Series alongside Collings, Huss & Dalton, Lowden, and Bourgeois — a rare in-person destination for Quebec and Ontario boutique builds.
