Santa Cruz Guitar Company
Pre-Owned Santa Cruz H-13 Acoustic Guitar - Sunburst w/ LR Baggs HIFI Duet
Listed at Alamo Music · San Antonio, TX
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Alamo Music’s site.
Photos hot-linked from Alamo Music’s site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Sitka Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Mahogany
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- Grand Auditorium
- Scale length
- 25.375"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- Frets to body
- 13
- 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.
Alamo Music
Alamo Music Center is San Antonio's hometown music store — family-owned since 1929 and the oldest, longest-running instrument dealer in Texas. Alfredo Flores Sr. opened it as Alamo Music Exchange just months before the 1929 crash, and four generations on it's still in the Flores family, with showrooms downtown and in Austin. It's a full-service shop first — lessons, rentals, repair, financing, pianos, and band and orchestra instruments — rather than a boutique-acoustic specialist, and the catalog runs broad to match. For high-end flat-top shoppers, the draw is Martin: Alamo works directly with Martin's Custom Shop on shop-exclusive runs, including the "Alamo Authentic" guitars marking its 95th anniversary, alongside a deep Taylor selection (custom "Catch" builds included) and the occasional Furch, Larrivée, or Thorell. The boutique acoustic shelf is modest, but Alamo is the natural in-person stop for serious acoustic shopping in South Texas.
