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Santa Cruz Firefly Review by Guitar Player Magazine

"I've never reviewed a guitar that has caused so many people to instantly utter some variation on the phrase, 'This might be the best guitar I've ever played in my life.' "

Matt Blackett at Guitar Player Magazine has written an outstanding review of our Firefly guitar.

Check out the review online now »

NEW Santa Cruz Guitar Company Logo Caps!

SCGC Company Logo Caps

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Enjoy our new SCGC logo caps! Designed with an adjustable strap, one size fits all. These caps are great for all seasons!

$15.00 plus shipping (please inquire about the various shipping methods available to you)

Call 831-425-0999 to place your order. We accept a personal check, Visa or Mastercard.

 

Introducing Our New Firefly Model!

SCGC Firefly

Santa Cruz Guitar's New Fire Fly Model is the actualization of a traveling sessions ace's dream. A real guitar to travel with that you'll be proud to play when you arrive. Professionally voiced 24" scale, concert pitch, this stunning little guitar is a professional tool with remarkable volume and complexity. The Fire Fly outshines the travel toy guitar offerings on the market. The Fire Fly delivers more sophistication then other company's full size counterparts. Hear it to believe it.

New 2nd Generation SCGC Vintage Style Tuners

SCGC Tuners

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We are proud to announce our 2nd generation SCGC vintage style tuners! Our first tuner caused a bit of a stir! The 18:1 ratio was finer than anything on the market in a vintage tuner, and worked great. There was some room for improvement so while addressing those issues we re-designed the entire plate to make it more sculpted and sleek. It's definitely stronger and a more elegant design.

This tuner has a much stronger system for mounting the worm gear and maintaining the tight tolerances needed between the worm gear and the string post gear. The shaft was redesigned so that the button mounts on four flats instead of just two, which was fine for the metal buttons but wasn't as ironclad for ebony and ivoroid buttons. This allows us to expand our custom button selection.

The size of this tuner is slightly narrower and longer, enhancing visual appeal. The screw holes and string post holes are identical. They should be able to be swapped out in most situations without additional fitting. Fitting to replace older Grover tuners on SCGC PW's or other vintage tuners may vary.

We have two different sized bushings to facilitate replacement. If our bushings are not big enough, Stewart MacDonald guitar shop supply has a larger conversion bushing for their Waverly tuner that fits the SCGC. These will need to be fit with a reamer.

SCGC Tuners

Mark Casstevens and Garth Brooks admire the new SCGC tuners!

Tuner Options

Nickel:
w/ nickel buttons: $75
w/ ivoroid buttons: $95
w/ ebony buttons: $95

Gold:
w/ gold buttons: $85
w/ ivoroid buttons: $105
w/ ebony buttons: $105

Please inquire about the various shipping methods available to you. Call us today to place your order: (831) 425-0999.

New SCGC Poster T-Shirts!

What better gift for any acoustic guitar afficionado than a genuine Santa Cruz Guitar Company T-shirt? We have our brand-new 'Poster Print' T-Shirt available in both men's and women's sizes! Men's sizes are L-XXL and women's sizes are M-XL (women please order one size up as cotton may shrink slightly). The t-shirts are all white with our custom designed Craig Frazier poster on the front.

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Don't forget our always popular SCGC Logo T-Shirt!

We have a variety of colors for our SCGC Logo T-Shirts. Please call for the available colors in your size: short-sleeve S-XXL, long-sleeved L-XXL.

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The price of either style of our short-sleeved T-shirts is $24. Our long sleeved T-Shirts are $30. Please inquire about the various shipping methods available to you.

Call 831-425-0999 to order. We accept a personal check, Visa or Mastercard.

Enjoy your new T-Shirt!

 

New Santa Cruz Guitar Co. Fine Instrument Wax

SCGC Fine Instrument Wax

In our endless quest for the best products to enhance, protect, and maintain your prized Santa Cruz guitar we have developed a premium wax specifically for SCGC's nitro cellulose lacquer finish. See Care and Feeding on this site for general guitar-cleaning information, and Companion Products for SCGC Fine Instrument Wax price and ordering information.

* Instructions for Wax use: » find out more

 

Santa Cruz H 13 Review by Guitar Player Magazine

Dave Hunter at Guitar Player Magazine has written a great review of our H 13 guitar.

"Beautifully made and gorgeously trimmed. A thoughtful design that yields sublime tones and effortless playability."

Read the whole review (great pics too!)...

Artisan Guitars voted Best Music Store - Congrats!

We'd like to congratulate Bill, Ellie and W.T. Warmoth and Artisan Guitars for being voted #1 as the "Best Musical Instrument Store" in Nashville, in the "Arts & Music category.

The Nashville Scene weekly newspaper conducts an annual "Best of Nashville 2006 Readers' Poll." You can read more here.

New! SCGC Handcrafted Guitar Cases!

Santa Cruz Guitar Company is proud to introduce our new guitar cases, which are handcrafted exclusively for us by Ameritage® Carrying Cases.

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SCGC's New Mahogany Line Arrives!

We have designed a series of mahogany bodied guitars to supplement our primarily rosewood line of models. These instruments largely share appointments with one another and will be available in most models previously standard in Indian Rosewood for the body.

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The New Santa Cruz H 13 Reviewed

David Wren at The 12th Fret in Toronto has written a glowing review of our new H 13 guitar.

"It was love at first site. You laugh, but it is true. When I saw Richard Hoover unpacking this instrument at the NAMM show, I swear that gravity exerted just a bit less downward pressure on me!!! Man this is one seductive guitar!"

Read the whole review (great pics too!)...

SCGC Poster to be in Prestigious Exhibition

SCGC Craig Frazier Poster




This poster, designed by the illustrious illustrator Craig Frazier (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Communication Arts, Atlantic Monthly), was juried and selected to hang in the (highly prestigious) 46th Annual Society of Illustrators exhibition in New York City, and will be featured in the printed annual that will be published later this year.

And you can buy one!

Santa Cruz Guitar Company's H 13 Fret Acoustic Guitar:
Handmade for Maximum Depth & Tonal Versatility

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The H-13 Fret shown with some of its many options (L-R): Adirondack spruce top with mahogany sides and back, redwood top with sycamore sides and back, and German spruce with maple sides and back.
With its player-driven design that has 13 frets clear of the body, plus special soundhole and bridge locations, Santa Cruz Guitar Company's H 13 Fret joins the SCGC H lineup with a sweet tone that capitalizes upon the best attributes of a 12-fret's resonance and a 14-fret's access. As a result, it's ideally suited to fingerpicking, coaxing the sonic character of each note while projecting an overall tonal depth.

Despite its small appearance, the H 13 Fret employs a body depth approaching that of a much larger dreadnought-sized guitar, producing extra volume and bass support to bolster its rich tone. Its comfortable size and complex tonal characteristics make it especially appealing to traditional players, soloists, and recording artists who demand maximum warmth and tonal versatility.

Features of the handcrafted H 13 Fret include a specially hand-tuned bracing system beneath its top-grade Sitka spruce top, a slotted headstock for classic style and enhanced string angle and sustain, and an ebony 1" x 6" pyramid rectangular bridge. The sides and back are select mahogany, and the mahogany neck features an ebony fingerboard with a total of 19 frets. An ebony headstock overlay and the wide ebony bridge with pyramid-style detailing add to the classic appearance.

The H 13 Fret is available from all Santa Cruz Guitar Company dealers worldwide.

Note to editors: Publication-quality high-resolution images of the Santa Cruz Guitar Company's H 13 Fret are available online at: http://www.mulhern.com/press/santacruz.













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