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When we used to display the 12 custom guitars in Acoustic Guitar magazine’s 10th Anniversary Collection on our office walls, it was always fun to see visitors’ reactions to the instruments. The one that seemed to pique their curiosity most was our 2000 Santa Cruz PJ, an exquisite parlor-style guitar…
This custom 2000 Santa Cruz PJ is from Acoustic Guitar magazine’s 10th Anniversary Collection. In celebration of our 30th anniversary in 2020, we’re putting our collection up for auction from April 20 through May 10, giving you the opportunity to bid on a piece of guitar history and support guitar…
Like millions of Americans, Eric Skye, the virtuoso jazz and roots guitarist, is currently under a shelter-in-place order—and making the best of it. He’s been hunkered down at his home, in Portland, Oregon, cooking and playing guitar with his wife and children, and contemplating on what is happening in the…
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At Winter NAMM 2000, the charismatic Santa Cruz founder and luthier Richard Hoover shows an OM made from 3,000-year-old spruce, with kauri back and sides that are even more ancient at 45,000 years old. He also presents an OM made from The Tree, a fabled fallen mahogany with intense figuring…
Sponsored by Santa Cruz Guitar Company: While most guitar makers attending the NAMM show were focused on new models, Santa Cruz Guitar Company once again presented a snapshot of their daily production: extremely custom, one-of-a-kind instruments built for sophistication of sound, ease of playability and players’ personal taste. In the…
Sponsored by Santa Cruz Guitar: SCGC welcomes you to design a custom guitar via their new website feature. Start with your desired base model, and select your choice of various tonewoods, bracing, neck specs, finish, inlays, appointments and more, many of which are included in the cost of any Santa Cruz…
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In this video from the 2019 Winter NAMM Show in Anaheim, California, Richard Hoover of Santa Cruz Guitar Company discusses responsible harvesting, the importance of reclamation, and the desirability of older woods while showing off a handful of the company’s exotic offerings. Check out more Winter NAMM 2019 coverage.
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In this video from Winter NAMM 2018, Richard Hoover, founder of Santa Cruz Guitar Company, explains their uniquely designed Parabolic Tension Strings. Watch it now for more.
Santa Cruz Guitar Company continues to celebrate its 40th anniversary, which took place last year, by putting its FTC model back into production. Watch above as Santa Cruz founder and luthier Richard Hoover shows off the F cutaway model — made famous by Eric Clapton in the ’80s — which features a stunning, cello-like carved…
By Greg Cahill Country-bluesman Catfish Keith, the two-time W. C. Handy Blues Music Award nominee for Best Acoustic Blues Album and 2008 inductee into the Blues Hall of Fame, visited the Acoustic Guitar booth at the NAMM musical-instrument-trade show in Anaheim, California, to demonstrate his custom Santa Cruz Guitar Co.…
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At Winter NAMM 2016, Santa Cruz unveiled a one-of-a-kind ‘Ghost Oak’ and two other anniversary models to mark the company’s 40th year. The Ghost Oak is built from 8,000-year-old oak found in a sand pit in the Czech Republic, and 3,000-year-old Sitka Spruce found in Alaska’s newly thawed permafrost. Watch the…
Saul Hudson was eager to see his new guitar, but he wasn’t expecting manna from heaven. After all, Hudson, better known as Slash, is the celebrated former Guns N’ Roses guitarist who’s owned some of the finest instruments in his neck of the rock ’n’ roll woods, from big-name vintage…
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