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…
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…
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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…
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…
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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…
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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…
