Santa Cruz Guitar Company
OOO Bearclaw German Spruce Top (236)
Listed at Willcutt Guitars · Lexington, KY
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Willcutt Guitars’ site.
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Specs
- Top
- German Spruce
- Back / Sides
- East Indian Rosewood
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- 000
- Scale length
- 25.375"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- Frets to body
- 12
- 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.
Willcutt Guitars
Willcutt Guitars has run out of Lexington, Kentucky's Beaumont Center since the mid-1990s, operating as one of the larger online guitar dealers in the country. The catalog runs wide across Fender, Gibson, PRS, Martin, and Taylor, with substantial custom-shop content from each — but the boutique-acoustic shelf sits at the heart of the shop, anchored by an unusually deep Collings inventory that includes much of the current production lineup plus a steady rotation of pre-owned and signature models. Santa Cruz, Bourgeois, and Larrivée round out the acoustic floor, with periodic Preston Thompson, McPherson, Goodall, Lowden, and Pre-War listings. For Collings shoppers in particular, Willcutt is one of the deepest single-dealer catalogs in the US.