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Hi, soliciting some advice for my first SCGC guitar purchase. I tend to like the smaller bodied guitars, so I’m intrigued by both the H13 and a shorter scale H12?
Is the H13 a deeper bodied guitar than the H12?
My playing style is best characterized as singer-songwriter in a folk pop style with both flat picking and fingerpicking.
Any thoughts or observations would be greatly appreciated.Thanks.
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Had an h13 and loved it. Although I ordered it in EIR and wished I had done adirondack mahogany. Santa cruz does mahogany so well and I personally think it suits their voicing. The H13 is enchanting.
I sold it to get an OM Grand because I needed more airspace and more low end to support strumming and singing. Although the smaller Santa Cruz guitars are loud, I find they are not suited to all out gusto – more for ‘sensible’ playing. I think the H13 would do great for folk. Yes it has a deeper body.
For your first one… I would suggest going certainly for any upgrades you want. Adirondack, mahogany, hide glue… they build a great guitar but the upgrades take it all the way there to 100% in my opinion.
It does have a bluesy folky enchanting sound in the H13, different than OO
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I owned an H13 Adirondack/Mahogany. I loved the guitar for finger style, but couldn’t quite make it work to my taste using a pick. It was a dream to play with plenty of head room and I can’t quite put my finger on why it didn’t work for me. I found it to be very dry with a strong focus of fundamental tone. After 1.5 years of trying to love it, I moved it along. I thoroughly enjoy my SCGC OM (euro/EIR) and SCGC OMG (euro/Cocobolo). I still think about the H13 though and might circle back to that model at some point.
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I’d not worry so much about the woods – worry about the specs (nut, saddle, neck shape, scale) and really understand what you want in terms of tone & attack, how you like the balance, and if you’re playing for yourself, or performing for others. Then, find some time to talk to Richard or Carolyn and see what they think they can recommend or build for you.
Or, keep your eyes open and try as many as you can get your hands on – you may even enjoy finding one or two used to buy and spend some time with. You generally can’t go wrong with a used Santa Cruz –
I’ve heard so many people who just love their H-13 – I just didn’t bond with one. Not yet, at least. That said, I love my H-14, and I would love to try out an H-12 – and yes, SCGC does some incredible work with mahogany!
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