Sound Pure's Take
The Santa Cruz D Tony Rice Signature model is a masterfully voiced dreadnought that delivers bold, articulate tone with remarkable depth and clarity. Its Sitka spruce top and Indian rosewood back and sides create a powerful, balanced sound with strong low-end presence and shimmering highs, perfect for dynamic flatpicking or expressive fingerstyle. The scalloped bracing enhances responsiveness, giving each note a lively, immediate feel. A mahogany neck with a comfortable V profile offers a confident, familiar grip, while classic herringbone and ivoroid details add timeless elegance. Built with precision and purpose, this Tony Rice Signature is an inspiring performer and a smart long-term investment!
From Santa Cruz Guitars
The Tony Rice Signature Model represents over 30 years of collaboration between the world's foremost flatpicking icon and SCGC's founding luthier, Richard Hoover. Today's model incorporates decades of refinement in response to players' demands and the sophisticated evolution of the master's technique.
Never intended to be a copy of Mr. Rice's iconic 1935 Martin D-28, the TR Model is voiced to showcase his stellar lead work with influences from Clarence White to John Coltrane. This guitar delivers exactly what the contemporary flatpicking artist needs: substantial treble and midrange for rapid single-line lead, clean note separation for definition and the traditional bass boom without the woofy bottom end of some of the venerable Pre-war dreadnoughts.
- Body Style
- Dreadnought
- Top Wood
- Sitka Spruce
- Back & Sides
- Indian Rosewood
- Bracing
- Sitka Spruce, Scalloped
- Adhesive
- Titebond
- Soundhole Diameter
- 4 1/4"
- Rosette
- Herringbone
- Top Border
- Herringbone
- Backstrip
- Zipper
- Tail Strip
- Matching Backstrip
- Body Binding
- Ivoroid
Neck
- Neck Wood
- Mahogany
- Neck Profile
- V with Volute
- Nut Width
- 1-11/16"
- Scale Length
- 25.375"
- Fingerboard Material
- Ebony
- Fingerboard Inlay
- SCGC Logo, Mother of Pearl
- Fingerboard Binding
- Ivoroid
- Headstock
- Solid Square
- Headplate Material
- Ebony
- Headstock Binding
- None
Hardware
- Bridge Material
- Ebony
- Bridge Style
- Regular
- String Spacing
- 2-3/16"
- Bridge Pins
- Ebony with Mother of Pearl Dots
- End Pin
- Ebony with Mother of Pearl Dot
- Tuners
- Waverly Nickel with Nickel Oval Knobs
Appointments
- Pickguard Shape
- TR/D12
- Pickguard Material
- Tortoise
Finish
- Body Finish
- Buffed Gloss (Clear)
- Neck Finish
- Matte (Clear)
Setup
- Action
- 3/2
- Fret Wire
- Standard
Strings
- Factory Strings
- SCGC Mid-Tension
Case
- Case
- SCG-DRD3P
- Weight
- 4lbs 1oz
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