Santa Cruz Guitar Company
000 in Koa & Sitka Spruce
1996 · Listed at The Six-String Collective · London, England
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at The Six-String Collective’s site.
Photos hot-linked from The Six-String Collective’s site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Sitka Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Koa
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- 000
- Scale length
- 25.394"
- Nut width
- 1 13/16"
- Frets to body
- 12
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- Preowned
- Year
- 1996
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.
The Six-String Collective
The Six-String Collective is a young UK dealer, launched in 2024 as a home for luthier-built guitars from British and international makers. It works as much like a curated consignment marketplace as a traditional shop — bringing together buyers, sellers, and the luthiers themselves — and its founders came to it from more than a decade in the instrument trade, several of those years at the forefront of the boutique world. The catalog pairs established names like Tom Sands, Lowden, Collings, Santa Cruz, and McPherson with a strong bench of British and European builders — Taran, Ralph Bown, O'Gorman, Oska Burman — several of them low-volume makers whose instruments rarely reach the open market. New and pre-owned instruments sit side by side, with the emphasis on personal service.
