Santa Cruz Founder Collection Vintage Southerner ‘Teardrop Sunburst’ Slope Shoulder Dreadnought Acoustic Guitar PRE-ORDER

PRE-ORDER - This incredible Santa Cruz is due to land in December 2026. There's one only available, so don't miss out on the return of one of the finest luthiers of all time to Acoustic Centre!

Every so often a guitar arrives that feels less like an instrument and more like a piece of history, and the Santa Cruz Founder Collection Vintage Southerner is exactly that. Created to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Santa Cruz Guitar Company, the Founder Collection is a limited-run series devoted to the classic models that built the Santa Cruz legend, each one built to a fixed standard specification with no options and no compromises. It is an invitation to own one of the most respected names in American lutherie, at a price that reflects the wonderful features baked into every instrument.

Richard Hoover founded Santa Cruz in 1976, and half a century later his philosophy lives in every detail of this slope-shouldered beauty. A teardrop sunburst glows across the Sitka spruce top, and tobacco-stained Honduran mahogany back and sides give the guitar the look of an instrument already loved for decades. The voice is warm, immediate, and quick to bloom, with a dry, woody fundamental, a sweet midrange, and crisp note separation, all lifted by a short 24.75" scale that makes bends and chords feel effortless. Ideal for blues, folk, flatpicking, and fingerstyle players who want vintage soul with modern refinement. Supplied in a Santa Cruz hardshell case.

Features

• Limited-run Founder Collection celebrating Santa Cruz’s 50th anniversary, built to a fixed specification with no custom options, so you are buying the models that made the brand famous.
• Sitka spruce top with double tapered Sitka braces and Honduran mahogany back and sides delivers a warm, immediate voice with a dry, woody fundamental and crisp note separation.
• Teardrop sunburst top and tobacco-stained back and sides give the guitar the warm, lived-in look of a treasured vintage workhorse.
• Short 24.75" scale, round-profile Honduran mahogany neck, and 1-11/16" nut offer a soft string feel and effortless playability.
• Beautiful features are included as standard: ivoroid binding, black/maple/black purfling, ebony fingerboard and bridge with mother-of-pearl Doppler dots, and nickel Waverly tuners.

• Model: Santa Cruz Founder Collection Vintage Southerner (VS)
• Body: Slope shoulder dreadnought, 14-fret
• Top: Sitka spruce
• Bracing: Double tapered Sitka spruce, joined with Titebond
• Back & sides: Honduran mahogany, tobacco stain
• Binding: Ivoroid
• Top purfling: Black/maple/black
• Rosette: Ivoroid
• Backstrip & tailstrip: Black
• Neck: Honduran mahogany, round profile
• Fingerboard: Ebony, black binding
• Fingerboard inlay: Mother-of-pearl Doppler dots
• Bridge: Ebony, rectangular
• Bridge pins: Ebony with mother-of-pearl dots
• Headstock veneer: Ebony, ivoroid Santa Cruz script logo
• Frets: Standard fret wire
• Nut width: 1-11/16"
• Bridge spacing: 2-3/16"
• Scale length: 24.75"
• Soundhole: 4"
• Tuners: Nickel Waverly, ivoroid buttons
• Pickguard: VS shape, tortoise
• Finish: Teardrop top sunburst
• Electronics: None
• Includes: Santa Cruz hardshell case
• Made in: USA (Santa Cruz, California)