Santa Cruz Guitar Company
50th Anniversary OM Pre-War (429)
Listed at Lark Guitars · San Antonio, TX
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Lark Guitars’ site.
Photos hot-linked from Lark Guitars’ site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Sitka Spruce
- Back / Sides
- East Indian Rosewood
- Neck
- Honduran Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- Orchestra Model
- Scale length
- 25.5"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- New
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.
Lark Guitars
Lark Guitars is an independent shop in San Antonio, Texas, with a heavily-electric core inventory and a smaller, carefully chosen boutique acoustic side. The owner-and-staff vibe shows up the moment you walk in; their acoustic shelves lean toward a curated set of Lowdens, Collings, and Santa Cruzes rather than a sprawling catalog. A friendly local shop with high-end taste.