Santa Cruz Style 1 - "Lost Tunnel" Redwood/Mahogany (2024)

This is a very gently and barely used Santa Cruz Style 1 guitar, made with Santa Cruz's rare "Lost Tunnel" redwood used for the soundboard.  This wood was salvaged from old growth redwood beams in an old discarded train tunnel.  Imagine the vibrations from passing trains ageing that redwood over many years.  It makes for a wonderful tone wood!  Paired with a Honduran Mahogany body, this guitar is so sweet sounding!  It has many other customizations as well:  adirondack bracing attached with hot hide glue, a rosette made with blue paua, bindings made with snakewood.  The neck has been shaped to make it a bit thinner, easing playability.  The string spacing is a generous 2 5/16", which makes it a great fingerstyle instrument.   If brand new from the factory, this guitar with these modifications would list for $13,080.  Here is a chance to own it at a relatively bargain price.

Here is Santa Cruz's description of the Style 1:

To properly introduce the Santa Cruz Style 1, it is necessary to echo the historic positioning of the SCGC PJ guitar.  The parlor-style body was the pinnacle of the art of guitar making up until the late 19th century. This was the optimal size for tonal perfection. The reason guitars got bigger was to make them louder. With amplification and modern recording techniques, we can once again embrace sound quality over sound quantity.  The original body shapes of the fledgling C.F. Martin & Co. included the Size 1, a relatively large guitar for the era. Fast-forward to the new millennium where this design is very well suited for contemporary fingerstyle techniques. Santa Cruz Guitar Company’s interpretation of this wonderfully sized instrument is in response to players’ demands for this traditionally sweet sounding guitar. SCGC’s ability to achieve surprising volume and presence in a smaller-bodied instrument gives the Style 1 a solid position in the contemporary guitarist’s repertoire.