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Thanks for the update! I’m looking forward to hearing more soon.

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Thanks! No worries at all. What an exciting time for Richard and SCGC, 50 years is an amazing achievement.

another thing to note: it’s only the SC 000 that veers from the traditional 20 fret with the 18 and shifted soundhole design. The 00 and H 12 frets have the lower soundhole and 20 frets. Once you see it the SC 000 design really stands out. With the soundhole placement and the SC bridge (as opposed to the typical pyramid) it has a beautiful elegance that blends modern and traditional.

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Mine is a Sitka top with mahogany. I bet you’re Adirondack and mahogany sound absolutely wonderful too.

I will try to figure out how to post my own pictures and maybe some videos soon a proper NGD Post.

no I haven’t gotten a good picture of the signed top yet on the inside. I have heard about this and I think it’s a great thing that Santa Cruz does. I’m getting a new saddle any day now and when I install that and change the strings I’ll take some pictures.

out of curiosity did you know before buying it that Santa Cruz has a different design than the Martin 00012 Fret? That the sound hole is slightly shifted upwards. It makes it look almost like a typical OM since there is less wood between the 12th frat joint and the top of the sound hole then on a similar Martin. I really like it. I hope the folks at Santa Cruz can chime in here and tell us more about this.

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<p style=”text-align: left;”>How wonderful, Mr Ridesglide! What wood combo is yours? How long have you had it?</p>

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Fantastic! Thank you so much for the help and I can’t wait to hear more about it. I cannot tell you how impressed I am by this guitar.   it has all of the immediacy and volume and responsiveness that I would expect out of a great 12 fret 000. But I was not expecting such a sublime combination of warmth clarity and overtones.

I wonder what role the SC location of the soundhole contributes to this vs the Martin location for 000 12 fret?

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Thanks for the compliments but the primary question of my post is—why did SCGC change the soundhole location on their version of the 12 fret 000?

Tone?

Aesthetics?

Would love to hear any background on this. Thanks!

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I’ll try to upload pictures soon and maybe do a NGD post too 🙂

It’s serial 4274.

Here’s a link of pictures two previous owners ago 🙂

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ncbluesman/albums/72157683778912503/with/35877862161

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I’ll post pictures later but the serial is 4274.

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