Richard Hoover and Santa Cruz Guitar Company have been pioneering some of the finest Dreadnoughts available on the market these days, and this Slope Shoulder*with a 12-fret neck has got to be one of the finest examples of their work we've seen. To play this guitar, you'd hardly believe it was a Dreadnought, so rich and balanced is the voice, and how comfortable and intimate the instrument feels in your hands, thanks to the 12-fret neck and slinky low action.
With even a soft touch, this Santa Cruz lights up all across the fingerboard. These trebles are crystalline in their clearness, and offer a delicate panoply of overtones to your fingerstyle arrangements. Bass notes are full and resounding as they roll out of the Slope Shoulderbody, but they retain a well-defined edge that keeps them balanced and distinct from the other registers. Despite its Dreadnought size, this guitar feels smaller, more inviting, and excellently set up for fingerpicking. Santa Cruz decided to pair a dark-grained set ofCocobolo Rosewood for the back and sides with a tight-grained German Spruce top, and what an excellent match! Like a good cabernet paired with fontina cheese, these woods give a rich and dynamic fundamental to the guitar's voice. This Slope Shoulder is the first of five such Dreadnoughts that Santa Cruz built for the 2000 NAMM show, and you can tell: they pulled out all the stops, and spared no expense.
Cash Price: $6,495 - For more information please call the shop 828-658-9795 or click here:
http://www.dreamguitars.com/detail/5...tacruz_d_2800/
Cash Price: $6,495 - For more information please call the shop 828-658-9795 or click here:
http://www.dreamguitars.com/detail/5...tacruz_d_2800/
07-19-2016, 03:33 PM
2000 Santa Cruz D Cocobolo/German
