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Used 2024 Santa Cruz 000 Custom 12-Fret Fort Ross Chapel Redwood & The Tree Quilted Mahogany Natural 081
Photos are of the actual guitar for sale. Condition - Mint Condition
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Santa Cruz 000 Custom 12-Fret - Fort Ross Chapel Redwood & The Tree Mahogany
The Santa Cruz Guitar Company was founded in 1976 in Santa Cruz, California, by luthier Richard Hoover with investors Bruce Ross and William Davis. The shop stays small on purpose, building somewhere between 500 and 700 guitars a year, and its instruments are known for strong resonance and complex overtones.
This 000 Custom pairs two of the most storied tonewoods in modern lutherie. The top is master grade redwood from the Fort Ross Chapel on the Northern California coast. Russian colonists built the log chapel around 1825. It burned in 1970 and was reconstructed in 1973. Hoover has said that, judging by the growth rings, this redwood is a couple of millennia old. The back and sides are quilted mahogany from "The Tree", a roughly 500-year-old mahogany cut down in 1965 in the Chiquibul jungle of what is now Belize. Its wood has been used by top builders including Santa Cruz.
Scalloped Advanced X Adirondack spruce bracing and hot hide glue construction let the top move freely, for quick response and long sustain. The small 000 body with a 12-fret neck joint feels intimate and balanced. The trim is understated: highly figured maple binding, rosette, backstrip, heel cap and tail wedge, herringbone top purfling, and ziricote fingerboard, bridge and slotted headstock veneer.
Specifications
- Manufacturer: Santa Cruz Guitar Company
- Model: 000 Custom
- Year: 2024
- Body Style: 000, 12-Fret
- Top: Master Grade Fort Ross Chapel Redwood
- Back and Sides: The Tree Quilted Mahogany
- Bracing: Advanced X Adirondack Spruce, Scalloped
- Construction: Hot Hide Glue
- Binding: Highly Figured Maple (Body, Fingerboard, Headstock)
- Rosette, Backstrip, Heel Cap & Tail Wedge: Highly Figured Maple
- Top Purfling: Herringbone
- Neck: Honduran Mahogany
- Fingerboard: Ziricote, 2mm Mother-of-Pearl Dots
- Bridge: Ziricote
- Headstock: Slotted, Ziricote Veneer
- Scale Length: 25.375"
- Nut Width: 1 3/4"
- String Spacing at Bridge: 2 1/4"
- Tuners: Waverly Gold 3-On-A-Plate, Snakewood Buttons
- Electronics: None
- Finish: Natural
- Case: Ameritage Hard Case
- Condition: Used - Mint
Learn More About This Guitar
- Wikipedia: Santa Cruz Guitar Company
- U.S. National Park Service: Fort Ross Chapel history
- Guitar Player: How Richard Hoover sources antique tonewoods (Fort Ross Chapel redwood)
- Acoustic Guitar: The Legend of "The Tree" mahogany