Richard Hoover Of Santa Cruz Guitars on Ancient Kauri and Ancient Sitka Spruce
A look at the wide range of ancient Kauri and ancient Sitka spruce guitars with Richard Hoover and the team at Santa Cruz Guitars for 2021-2023 model year. The beguiling tone and unique look of these rare woods is unique. Over one hundred thousand years ago, the massive Kauri trees rivaled the mighty Sequoia Redwoods in sheer volume. It witnessed a time when the ancestors of each and every one of us, the original humans, made their first migration out of East Africa across the Sinai land bridge into Asia. The convergence of two major tectonic plates and the resulting epic storms, floods and tsunamis committed these behemoth Kauri trees to countless millennia, preserved in total darkness, before they would again see the light of day.
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