Santa Cruz H13

This Santa Cruz H13 has a nitro gloss finish except the neck is satin. Strange but great feel to it.The body is a 00 but it feels deep. Tuners are Santa Cruz open tuners with ivory loke buttos. Very well done. Neck is a v neck thats very prominemt feeling. The case is amazing, the best i've ever seen. It was made in Santa Cruz, Ca in 2008 i assume, it has not electronics. I wouldnt dare add any (the jinx Thing. Solid Spuce top, solid mahogony back and sides. It looks almost black in the back with a very nice sunburst top to it. the neck is solid amhogony as well. The fretboard is ebony and there are no markers except fot the side fret markers. Oversized soundhole.

I play blues and this is a fantastic guitar for what i'm doing. Since reading reviews on instruments here, there, everywhere, i have come to the conclusion that sound and instruments are to subjective. I have bought this tried that ordered right away online only to wind up selling more than what i buy. I thought therapy might have been the order for awhile there until recently. This H13 is by far the best acoustic i've ever picked up. I tried it out in alocal music store and walked away from it for a couple of weeks only to haunted by it daily. I tried and tried to get the feel, tone and looks of this thing out of my head. I went to a bunch of stores and played a bunch of different acoustics only to wind up going back and ponying up the dough for this. There was no way around it. This guitar is by far the best sounding natually overdriven acoustic I have ever been blessed to play. I am now ruined for all other acosutics that might come after this. Santa Cruz definately knows thier stuff. The oversized soundhole has alot to with it and the hand tuned top only pushes it furthur.

The action was a little high but i didnt want to touch it because I bought it for the tone. I felt as if i did have it lowered than something would have changed ever so slightly that i couldnt do it. I told myself i'd give it a coulpe of months and see if i got use to it, and i did. Besides i believe whoever built this guitar knew a hell of alot more than I do about it so I just let it be. So i mike this H13 in stereo and it is the shit. It really is. The nut is perfect, the pyramid bridge is perfect and the balance of it makes it so comfortable to hold and play its a pure privelage to own.

It'll have to withstand live playing because although it is a fine instrument, is is only that a tool for music. The hardware is top-notch and the finish seems like it will hold up. I smack it against my chair and when i looked there was nothing. enough said. The one strap button it came with is way cool. Will hold a strap securely. I believe i can depend on it. Came with a limited lifetime warranty. I would not use a backup with this, i trust it and besides i have no backup. :)

Like i said it has a lifetime warranty and Santa Cruz is about 6 hours up the road. Although i do not expect to have issues with it. Contacted once to ask a simple question. The chick who answered the phone sounded hot!!

I have been playing for awhile now. Play my own stuff mostly. I own a 1972 Gibson Les Paul Deluxe that I run through a Butler Overdrive and an old Maxon Ad80 Delay into a Fender Custon Shop Deluxe 12 watt amp, Thats it. I record alot and play with friends. There is just something about the tone of this guitar i cant live without. It is very generous and very forgiving at the same time. Makes want to be a better player. It is insured, but if it was stolen i'd obviously freak. I dont think it could be replaced. If you have an opportunity to play one of these do it for the experience. I know they are expensive, at least it was for me.

Nitrocellulose lacquer finish with sunburst, high grade solid sitka top and mahogany back and sides and neck with a dark stain. Body style is basically that of a deep OO, with slight shifting of soundhole and bridge. V neck. 2007, made in Santa Cruz. This is the first guitar I've bought new, and already I've been helped by Dan Robinson on some questions I had. Very good lifetime warranty. Santa cruz tuners, slot head, 13 frets to the body. Nice OM size case.

I play blues, folk, some jazz and bluegrass. This guitar can do it all. Though primarily a finger picking guitar, it handles a flatpick as well as I could hope for such a small guitar. I'd classify the sound as dry, woody, and punchy. Warm and sweet with pleasing overtones. Quite a lot of headroom to play hard with pick or fingerpicks. Overtones start to become more exiting and higher volume levels on this guitar. This guitar is still new and has not opened up yet. I'm sure it will open up to sound like a 10, but compared to a goodall grand concert I had, adi/ hog, it is a 9, though beats the goodall as far as bass response goes, it lacks the clarity in the trebles and overall separation.

Action a little high, but comes with instructions on how to adjust with a regular ratchet with extension rod. No flaws. Oh this thing is more perfect than any guitar I've ever owned. The grain of the sitka is so tight.

Very lightly built and the finish is not as durable as some more modern finishes but beautiful and classic. I would use it on gig without a backup but would be worried if I didn't have the lifetime warranty. I removed the pickguard and the glue caused the finish to have some dimples which I need to have buffed out eventually.

Lifetime warranty. SCGC has been very helpful so far.

I've been playing for a decade or so. I've owned a Froggy Bottom M, Goodall GC, Lowden O12 and O10, Huss and Dalton OO, a Goodall Jumbo, a Martin 000-16SGT. This ties with the goodall as my favorite (and it hasn't opened yet!), the Huss come in at a close second. Then the froggy. Lowdens, and Martin.

I don't feel like this SC is a OO. It is deeper and therefore less comfortable to hold, and it is longer, and requires a case the size of the Goodall grand concert, whereas the Huss OO, a true 12 fret was in a smaller case. But I think the 13 frets is a perfect compromise.

I don't like pick guards. If they are so hard to remove from a nitrocellulose guitar they shouldn't put them on standard. I find it odd that the pickguard is supposed to protect the guitar but it etches into the finish. I'd rather have pick and finger marks than a pickguard shaped etch. I should've asked before buying the guitar... I could've just looked for one without a pick guard.

I like the waverly tuners a little more than the santa cruz ones. They seem higher quality. Also, I kind of wish the tuner buttons were wood instead of ivoroid. I know it is vintage looking but they look so plastic to me, and don't quite match the ivoroid binding.

I'd buy it again if lost, though I might go for the natural flavor or adirondack sunburst.