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The Santa Cruz Founder Collection D is a beautifully crafted dreadnought that celebrates traditional acoustic guitar design and exceptional tonewood selection. Featuring a Sitka Spruce top paired with Indian Rosewood back and sides, this instrument delivers a rich, powerful voice with impressive depth, clarity, and resonance. Its clear finish showcases the natural beauty of the woods, while ivoroid body binding, a combination purfling rosette, and matching top border provide an elegant, timeless appearance. A tortoise pickguard and traditional S29 backstrip complete its classic styling.

The Sitka Spruce top features tapered voicing and traditional Sitka bracing, creating a responsive and balanced tonal character with excellent projection and dynamic range. The ebony bridge, fitted with ebony bridge pins featuring mother-of-pearl dots, complements the instrument's refined appointments. The combination of Indian Rosewood and Sitka Spruce produces a versatile acoustic voice, offering warm, full-bodied lows, articulate mids, and sparkling highs.

The mahogany neck features a comfortable standard round profile, paired with an ebony fingerboard adorned with 2mm mother-of-pearl dot inlays and ivoroid binding. Its 25.375-inch scale length and 1 11/16-inch nut width provide a familiar, comfortable playing experience. Additional details include a solid square ebony headstock overlay with mother-of-pearl Santa Cruz logo, ivoroid peghead binding, and nickel Waverly tuners with oval knobs.

Weighing just 4 pounds 1 ounce, the Santa Cruz Founder Collection D combines outstanding craftsmanship, classic dreadnought projection, and timeless visual appeal. Finished with SCGC Mid-Tension strings and supplied in its SCG-DRD3P hardshell case, this exceptional instrument is a beautiful expression of Santa Cruz's dedication to handcrafted quality and uncompromising acoustic performance.

Other specifications include:

  • Back/Side Wood - Indian Rosewood
  • Top Wood - Spruce, Sitka
  • Soundhole - 4"
  • Rosette - Purfle Combo
  • Top Bracing - Sitka with Titebond
  • Top Voicing - Tapered
  • Backstrip - S29
  • Body Binding - Ivoroid
  • Top Border - Purfle Combo
  • Tail Strip - Same as backstrip
  • Peghead Shape - Solid Square (standard)
  • Fingerboard Wood - Ebony
  • Overlay Material - Ebony
  • Fingerboard Inlay - 2mm Dots in Mother of Pearl
  • Peghead Inlay - SCGC Logo, Mother of Pearl
  • Fingerboard Binding - Ivoroid
  • Peghead Binding - Ivoroid
  • Neck Wood - Mahogany
  • Neck Profile - Round Neck (Standard)
  • Nut Width - 1-11/16"
  • Scale Length - 25.375"
  • Heel Cap - Same as Binding
  • Neck Color - Clear
  • Body Color - Clear
  • Top Color - Clear
  • Neck Finish - Matte
  • Bridge Spacing - 2-3/16"
  • Bridge Wood - Ebony
  • Bridge Style - Regular
  • Bridge Pins - Ebony with Mother of Pearl Dots
  • End Pin - Ebony with Mother of Pearl Dot
  • Pickguard Shape - D
  • Pickguard - Tortoise
  • Action - 3/2
  • Fret Wire - Standard
  • Tuners (Solid) - Waverly Nickel with Nickel Oval Knobs (1129)
  • Strings - SCGC Mid-Tension
  • Case - Hardshell
  • 4 lbs 1 oz
  • #8231

For more information about the Santa Cruz instrument, please contact us.

Manufacturer
Santa Cruz
Body Style
Dreadnought
Actual Weight
4.1
Model
D
Condition
Brand New
Body Style
14 Fret
Strings
6
Pickup
No
Series
Founder Collection

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Weight: 4 lbs 1 oz

Santa Cruz Founder Collection D - Sitka Spruce & Indian Rosewood #8231

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The Santa Cruz Founder Collection D is a beautifully crafted dreadnought that celebrates traditional acoustic guitar design and exceptional tonewood selection. Featuring a Sitka Spruce top paired with Indian Rosewood back and sides, this instrument delivers a rich, powerful voice with impressive depth, clarity, and resonance. Its clear finish showcases the natural beauty of the woods, while ivoroid body binding, a combination purfling rosette, and matching top border provide an elegant, timeless appearance. A tortoise pickguard and traditional S29 backstrip complete its classic styling.

The Sitka Spruce top features tapered voicing and traditional Sitka bracing, creating a responsive and balanced tonal character with excellent projection and dynamic range. The ebony bridge, fitted with ebony bridge pins featuring mother-of-pearl dots, complements the instrument's refined appointments. The combination of Indian Rosewood and Sitka Spruce produces a versatile acoustic voice, offering warm, full-bodied lows, articulate mids, and sparkling highs.

The mahogany neck features a comfortable standard round profile, paired with an ebony fingerboard adorned with 2mm mother-of-pearl dot inlays and ivoroid binding. Its 25.375-inch scale length and 1 11/16-inch nut width provide a familiar, comfortable playing experience. Additional details include a solid square ebony headstock overlay with mother-of-pearl Santa Cruz logo, ivoroid peghead binding, and nickel Waverly tuners with oval knobs.

Weighing just 4 pounds 1 ounce, the Santa Cruz Founder Collection D combines outstanding craftsmanship, classic dreadnought projection, and timeless visual appeal. Finished with SCGC Mid-Tension strings and supplied in its SCG-DRD3P hardshell case, this exceptional instrument is a beautiful expression of Santa Cruz's dedication to handcrafted quality and uncompromising acoustic performance.

Other specifications include:

  • Back/Side Wood - Indian Rosewood
  • Top Wood - Spruce, Sitka
  • Soundhole - 4"
  • Rosette - Purfle Combo
  • Top Bracing - Sitka with Titebond
  • Top Voicing - Tapered
  • Backstrip - S29
  • Body Binding - Ivoroid
  • Top Border - Purfle Combo
  • Tail Strip - Same as backstrip
  • Peghead Shape - Solid Square (standard)
  • Fingerboard Wood - Ebony
  • Overlay Material - Ebony
  • Fingerboard Inlay - 2mm Dots in Mother of Pearl
  • Peghead Inlay - SCGC Logo, Mother of Pearl
  • Fingerboard Binding - Ivoroid
  • Peghead Binding - Ivoroid
  • Neck Wood - Mahogany
  • Neck Profile - Round Neck (Standard)
  • Nut Width - 1-11/16"
  • Scale Length - 25.375"
  • Heel Cap - Same as Binding
  • Neck Color - Clear
  • Body Color - Clear
  • Top Color - Clear
  • Neck Finish - Matte
  • Bridge Spacing - 2-3/16"
  • Bridge Wood - Ebony
  • Bridge Style - Regular
  • Bridge Pins - Ebony with Mother of Pearl Dots
  • End Pin - Ebony with Mother of Pearl Dot
  • Pickguard Shape - D
  • Pickguard - Tortoise
  • Action - 3/2
  • Fret Wire - Standard
  • Tuners (Solid) - Waverly Nickel with Nickel Oval Knobs (1129)
  • Strings - SCGC Mid-Tension
  • Case - Hardshell
  • 4 lbs 1 oz
  • #8231

For more information about the Santa Cruz instrument, please contact us.

Manufacturer
Santa Cruz
Body Style
Dreadnought
Actual Weight
4.1
Model
D
Condition
Brand New
Body Style
14 Fret
Strings
6
Pickup
No
Series
Founder Collection

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Santa Cruz Founder Collection D Sitka Spruce & Indian Rosewood Acoustic Guitar
Santa Cruz Founder Collection D Sitka Spruce & Indian Rosewood Acoustic Guitar
Santa Cruz Founder Collection D Sitka Spruce & Indian Rosewood Acoustic Guitar
Santa Cruz Founder Collection D Sitka Spruce & Indian Rosewood Acoustic Guitar
Santa Cruz Founder Collection D Sitka Spruce & Indian Rosewood Acoustic Guitar
Santa Cruz Founder Collection D Sitka Spruce & Indian Rosewood Acoustic Guitar
Santa Cruz Founder Collection D Sitka Spruce & Indian Rosewood Acoustic Guitar
Santa Cruz Founder Collection D Sitka Spruce & Indian Rosewood Acoustic Guitar
Santa Cruz Founder Collection D Sitka Spruce & Indian Rosewood Acoustic Guitar
Santa Cruz Founder Collection D Sitka Spruce & Indian Rosewood Acoustic Guitar
Santa Cruz Founder Collection D Sitka Spruce & Indian Rosewood Acoustic Guitar
Santa Cruz Founder Collection D Sitka Spruce & Indian Rosewood Acoustic Guitar
Santa Cruz Founder Collection D Sitka Spruce & Indian Rosewood Acoustic Guitar
Santa Cruz Founder Collection D Sitka Spruce & Indian Rosewood Acoustic Guitar
Santa Cruz Founder Collection D Sitka Spruce & Indian Rosewood Acoustic Guitar
Santa Cruz Founder Collection D Sitka Spruce & Indian Rosewood Acoustic Guitar
Santa Cruz Founder Collection D Sitka Spruce & Indian Rosewood Acoustic Guitar
Hardshell Case for Santa Cruz Founder Collection D Sitka Spruce & Indian Rosewood Acoustic Guitar
Santa Cruz Founder Collection D Sitka Spruce & Indian Rosewood Acoustic Guitar

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