The Santa Cruz Guitar Company’s Stunning FS (Fingerstyle) Model in Sitka Spruce and Indian Rosewood is far more than a simple instrument; it's a genuine acoustic investment built for the serious player! With its solid Sitka Spruce top and rich Indian Rosewood body, this guitar produces a beautiful, bold voice—clear and captivating, and perfectly voiced for intricate fingerwork. The comfortable Round neck and Ebony overlay with subtle 2mm dot inlays make it supremely playable right out of the case. Finely finished and featuring top-tier Chrome Gotoh 510 tuners, this guitar is absolutely rock solid and ready to sing.

The FS Model was designed in response to the renaissance of alternate tunings for complex fingerstyle arrangements. Tacoma and Windham Hill labels provided the showcase for these new and sophisticated steel string explorers who were attempting to express themselves on booming dreadnoughts. Will Ackerman, Robbie Basho, Daniel Hecht, Duck Baker and Michael Hedges all looked to SCGC for the teams’ expertise in achieving custom tone to make an instrument with the perfect voice for this new style. With input from the pros, the tiny SCGC team at the time, which included Jeff Traugott, Michael Hornick and Steve Palazzo, stepped up to the challenge with this concept: design and build a specialty fingerstyle instrument that responds with immediacy and volume to the minimized energy imparted from fingertips and the reduced tension of many open tunings. Give it a contemporary aesthetic of simple elegance and complexity of tone that the player can not outgrow. Twenty-five years and numerous awards and accolades later, The Fretboard Journal credits the Santa Cruz FS as the inspiration for the guitar designs of some of the brightest lights in contemporary lutherie and a strong influence on major manufacturers. The FS is a truly sophisticated instrument that will allow the best possible presentation of your fingerstyle technique.

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