Santa Cruz Guitar Company
000 45 Style Acoustic Guitar - Old Growth Adirondack/Koa with Hardshell Case
Listed at Haggerty's Music · Rapid City, SD
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Haggerty's Music’s site.
Photos hot-linked from Haggerty's Music’s site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Adirondack Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Koa
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- 000
- Scale length
- 25.375"
- 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.
Haggerty's Music
Haggerty's Music is a family-run shop in Rapid City, South Dakota — the Atlas's first dealer in the state — with roots in a 1963 Haggerty family department store whose back-room instrument counter grew into a full music store on West Main Street. Today it's best known as a Taylor powerhouse: a Taylor Premier dealer carrying one of the largest Taylor selections in the Atlas, deep in One-of-a-Kind custom builds, Gold Label, and the flagship 800-series line, with recent stock reaching into the high five figures. The boutique acoustic floor extends well past Taylor — a strong Santa Cruz shelf, Martin and Gibson acoustics, and the occasional Collings — alongside an active used and consignment trade. For Taylor shoppers especially, Haggerty's is a genuine destination, and a rare high-end acoustic stop in the northern Plains.
