2014 Santa Cruz D12 Custom
$7495 CAD
($5321.45 USD)
For more details contact us at info@folkwaymusic.com or 855-772-0424.
An exquisitely customized Santa Cruz D12 twelve fret Dreadnought featuring a master-grade bearclaw-figured Italian spruce top with Adirondack spruce bracing and hide-glue assembly, highly figured flamed maple back, sides and neck; Herringbone and ivoroid accents and a full-sunburst, full-gloss lacquer finish. It’s a glorious guitar, with tone and feel to match its great looks.
Santa Cruz builds their 12 fret dreadnoughts with an ear towards string balance, fundamental presence and clarity, and a bass-end response that doesn’t absorb all of the guitar’s energy at the cost of mid-range and treble power. Anyone who appreciates a big-bodied guitar that offers balance, power, and huge headroom along with the warmth and bass response of a typical D would be remiss not to try this guitar out. It’s a remarkable sounding machine that offers flatpickers everything they want, but also offers the warmth and overtone richness demanded by fingerstyle players.
Beyond the red spruce scalloped bracing and hide-glue construction, this Santa Cruz D-12 is built with a slightly thinner body with a depth of 4-3/8” at the endpin and a 1” taper, and a soundhole diameter that’s increased to 4-1/4”. These are two of the less obvious secrets to this guitar’s incredible tone.
The two-piece bookmatched maple neck has a wonderfully comfortable rounded C-carve of medium depth and a nutwidth of 1-3/4”. First fret neck thickness measures .854”, and thickness at the 9th fret is .955”. The scale is 25.4” and the string spread at the bridge is 2-3/16. All those numbers add up to a neck that feels nothing like most 12-fretters out there. It’s much more of a Gibson-like rounded carve with a nicely rolled fretboard edge. The closest-feeling neck to this one would be a ’29 to ’32 L-00 / L2 / Nick Lucas variant with a full-thickness fretboard. The ivoroid-bound ebony fingerboard is dressed up with slotted diamond inlays, and the ivoroid-bound ebony headstock overlay features a pearl SCGC logo. Schaller open-geared tuners and a properly-adjusted bone nut offer smooth and predicable tuning. The guitar is set up with 12’s and standard 5-6 64ths action. It remains in excellent condition with very little playwear.
With original Ameritage hardshell case
Santa Cruz builds their 12 fret dreadnoughts with an ear towards string balance, fundamental presence and clarity, and a bass-end response that doesn’t absorb all of the guitar’s energy at the cost of mid-range and treble power. Anyone who appreciates a big-bodied guitar that offers balance, power, and huge headroom along with the warmth and bass response of a typical D would be remiss not to try this guitar out. It’s a remarkable sounding machine that offers flatpickers everything they want, but also offers the warmth and overtone richness demanded by fingerstyle players.
Beyond the red spruce scalloped bracing and hide-glue construction, this Santa Cruz D-12 is built with a slightly thinner body with a depth of 4-3/8” at the endpin and a 1” taper, and a soundhole diameter that’s increased to 4-1/4”. These are two of the less obvious secrets to this guitar’s incredible tone.
The two-piece bookmatched maple neck has a wonderfully comfortable rounded C-carve of medium depth and a nutwidth of 1-3/4”. First fret neck thickness measures .854”, and thickness at the 9th fret is .955”. The scale is 25.4” and the string spread at the bridge is 2-3/16. All those numbers add up to a neck that feels nothing like most 12-fretters out there. It’s much more of a Gibson-like rounded carve with a nicely rolled fretboard edge. The closest-feeling neck to this one would be a ’29 to ’32 L-00 / L2 / Nick Lucas variant with a full-thickness fretboard. The ivoroid-bound ebony fingerboard is dressed up with slotted diamond inlays, and the ivoroid-bound ebony headstock overlay features a pearl SCGC logo. Schaller open-geared tuners and a properly-adjusted bone nut offer smooth and predicable tuning. The guitar is set up with 12’s and standard 5-6 64ths action. It remains in excellent condition with very little playwear.
With original Ameritage hardshell case
