Santa
Cruz Guitar Company
SCGC was one of the first independent guitar companies to challenge
America’s big factories, and today their guitars are distributed
all over the world. Yet founder Richard Hoover is on the job almost
every day, and the company is still, in many ways, a large workshop
rather than a small factory. Gryphon stocks a number of standard SCGC
models, but what we’ve chosen to show here are some of the special
order instruments that the Santa Cruz crew have made for us in the
last few years. Unlike some guitarmakers, SCGC is willing to use wood
that we supply, and in some cases we’ve dug into the stash of
guitarwoods from Gryphon’s early days (Frank and Richard bought
a lot more tonewood than they used in their guitarmaker phase of the
early ‘70s, and it’s been aging gracefully in the attic
ever since)
With careful planning and wood
choice, you really can get an exceptional guitar that’s one-of-a-kind,
and yet has the proven tonal response and playability that comes
with years of experience.