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HOLD – Santa Cruz Fingerstyle Custom Adirondack/Mahogany

Serial Number: 1362

Get them digits loose – here is your lifer kids…

This Santa Cruz Fingerstyle Custom Adirondack/Mahogany is beckoning…

Thi fantastic FS Model was designed in response to the renaissance of alternate tunings for complex fingerstyle arrangements – and boy does it deliver!

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 plus 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.

Other specifications include:

  • Fingerstyle Model
  • Mahogany Body
  • Adirondack Spruce Top (clean and blonde)
  • Non-cutaway
  • Scalloped bracing pattern
  • Adirondack braces attached with hot hide glue
  • Koa binding on the body
  • Koa binding on the fingerboard
  • Koa binding on the peghead
  • Koa Wood Style Rosette
  • Koa back strip
  • Brazilian Fingerboard
  • Brazilian Bridge
  • Brazilian Overlay
  • Custom bridge spacing: 2-5/16″
  • SCGC logo at 12th (no logo on headstock)
  • Blue purfling on fingerboard and peghead
  • Gold Goth 510 with black buttons
  • Hard Case
  • #1362

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

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$10,525.00

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PLEASE CALL: 314-274-9571

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