$8,960.00
The Santa Cruz Guitar Company’s Stunning FS (Fingerstyle) Model in Sitka Spruce and Indian Rosewood is far more than a simple instrument; it's a genuine acoustic investment built for the serious player! With its solid Sitka Spruce top and rich Indian Rosewood body, this guitar produces a beautiful, bold voice—clear and captivating, and perfectly voiced for intricate fingerwork. The comfortable Round neck and Ebony overlay with subtle 2mm dot inlays make it supremely playable right out of the case. Finely finished and featuring top-tier Chrome Gotoh 510 tuners, this guitar is absolutely rock solid and ready to sing.
The FS Model was designed in response to the renaissance of alternate tunings for complex fingerstyle arrangements. Tacoma and Windham Hill labels provided the showcase for these new and sophisticated steel string explorers who were attempting to express themselves on booming dreadnoughts. Will Ackerman, Robbie Basho, Daniel Hecht, Duck Baker and Michael Hedges all looked to SCGC for the teams’ expertise in achieving custom tone to make an instrument with the perfect voice for this new style. With input from the pros, the tiny SCGC team at the time, which included Jeff Traugott, Michael Hornick and Steve Palazzo, stepped up to the challenge with this concept: design and build a specialty fingerstyle instrument that responds with immediacy and volume to the minimized energy imparted from fingertips and the reduced tension of many open tunings. Give it a contemporary aesthetic of simple elegance and complexity of tone that the player can not outgrow. Twenty-five years and numerous awards and accolades later, The Fretboard Journal credits the Santa Cruz FS as the inspiration for the guitar designs of some of the brightest lights in contemporary lutherie and a strong influence on major manufacturers. The FS is a truly sophisticated instrument that will allow the best possible presentation of your fingerstyle technique.
Interested in building your custom Santa Cruz with us? Email us at acoustics@soundpure.com, or call us at (919) 682-5552! Richard Hoover began building guitars and carved-top mandolins in 1972. By 1976 his focus was on the modern steel string guitar. The task of becoming a master at all aspects of guitar making is a lifelong pursuit, and Richard has patiently refined his craftsmanship and knowledge as his company has grown. It was and is Richard's intent to translate his skills and sensitivities as an individual builder to an exceptional team of craftspeople, each of whom could become an expert in their specialty. Richard's style of allowing his craftspeople to interpret his vision has propelled Santa Cruz Guitar Company to the forefront of modern guitar making. Each Santa Cruz guitar receives an extraordinary amount of individual attention due to our "bench style" of building, which necessitates that each worker not only perform his own specialty, but also review the work of those who have completed stages before him. Over half of all the instruments that we build are custom orders, reflecting to a high degree the personality and unique playing needs of the buyer. Every guitar top is graduated and tuned by hand to attain maximum resonance and sustain, ensuring a high level of consistency of sound within each standard model line as well as the ability for custom voicing. The balance, tone, volume, and response of a Santa Cruz guitar are established before the guitar is strung. By limiting the number of instruments built, we can practice a style of lutherie born from a genuine love of the guitar, as opposed to a production line approach that might favor greater numbers at the expense of our attention to detail. We believe that our approach ensures that every Santa Cruz guitar is exceptional. Our intent is to create a uniquely sophisticated instrument that will inspire and challenge its owner throughout a lifetime.
Body
Wood Type: Indian Rosewood
Back Stripe: S29
Binding: Ivoroid
Top
Wood Type: Sitka Spruce
Rosette: Purfle Combo
Purfling: Purfle Combo
Bracing/Voicing: Tapered
Neck
Peghead: Solid F Style
Peghead Binding: I/B/I
Overlay Material: Ebony
Headstock Inlay: SCGC
Width at Nut: 1-11/16
Neck Shape: Round
Fingerboard
Side Dots: Black
Inlay: 2mm dots
Width at 14th Fret: 2-3/16
Binding: I/B/I
Scale Length: 25.375
Finish
Top: Clear
Back & Sides: Clear/Buffed
Neck: Clear/Buffed
Setup
Pickguard: Tortoise
Tuners/gears: Chrome Gotoh 510
LR Baggs Presents Santa Cruz Guitar Company. This short film narrated by Richard Hoover, founder of Santa Cruz Guitar Company, documents the culture of their boutique lutherie and a mission to provide exceptional instruments for musicians that truly change the world.
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