Santa Cruz Guitar Company
Used Santa Cruz 1929-00 (PDX)
Listed at Thunder Road Guitars (Portland) · Portland, OR · Dealer ref #351
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Thunder Road Guitars (Portland)’s site.
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Specs
- Top
- Mahogany
- Back / Sides
- Mahogany
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- 00
- Scale length
- 24.875"
- 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.
Thunder Road Guitars (Portland)
Thunder Road Guitars opened in Portland's St. Johns neighborhood in 2017, the second store from the Seattle Ballard original (est. 2009) — an independently-owned family business with deep used and vintage shelves alongside a dense electric, amp, and pedal catalog. The Portland floor carries the broadest Collings shelf in either store (substantially deeper than Seattle's) plus the high-end mass-market custom shops — Fender Custom Shop, Gibson Custom, Martin — in serious depth. The shop holds authorized-stockist status with both Collings and Lowden, reflecting a real Pacific Northwest dealer relationship for boutique steel-string buyers. Each store runs its own inventory under a shared umbrella website, so what's on the St. Johns floor is what ships out of St. Johns.
