Santa Cruz Guitar Company
1929/000, Recent
Listed at Dave's Guitar Shop · La Crosse, WI
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Dave's Guitar Shop’s site.
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Specs
- Top
- Mahogany
- Back / Sides
- Mahogany
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- 00
- Scale length
- 24.9"
- 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.
Dave's Guitar Shop
Dave's Guitar Shop opened in La Crosse, Wisconsin in 1982, when Dave Rogers — a blues player who'd been buying and trading out of his home — rented a 400-square-foot former dental office. Four decades on it fills a roughly 21,000-square-foot building at 1227 S. 3rd St. with more than 2,500 guitars, making it one of the largest independently owned guitar stores in the Midwest; Rogers' public vintage collection (300-plus instruments, including a 1959 Les Paul) draws players from well beyond the region. The floor leans electric and vintage, but the acoustic room runs deep: Dave's carries Martin, Taylor, Gibson, Collings, Santa Cruz, Goodall, Larrivée, and McPherson, from working-musician models to custom-shop and high-end flat-tops, new and used. Roughly 70% of sales now ship by phone and web, with new arrivals photographed and posted daily. A Midwest institution, and a real destination for boutique acoustic shopping.