Goodall Guitars
Goodall RCJCSS Redwood & Rosewood Short Scale
Listed by Sylvan Music · Santa Cruz, CA
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Specs
- Top
- Redwood
- Back / Sides
- Indian Rw
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- Jumbo
- Scale length
- 25"
- Nut width
- 1.75"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- New
About Goodall Guitars
Goodall Guitars are built in Sparta, Tennessee by a father-son shop — James Goodall, his son Luke, and Jean Goodall running the business side. James built his first guitar in San Diego in 1972 as a self-taught seascape painter who traded an oil painting for the tonewoods (this was before guitar-construction books existed; he learned from scratch). Fifty-plus years later, the operation has stayed small and family-run, building hand-made instruments across thirteen body sizes and five series. The Goodall design language favors restrained appointments — the woods carry the visual weight. James Taylor has played a Goodall as his primary acoustic for decades; the brand's reputation lives in player-to-player word-of-mouth more than marketing.
About Sylvan Music
Sylvan Music has been on Mission Street in Santa Cruz since 1993 — a quietly remarkable shop opened in 1984 by Albert Markasky, who still builds and repairs in the back room. Albert's lineage is part of the shop's character: he apprenticed under David Morse in 1980, then rented a one-car garage with Jeff Traugott in 1983 before Jeff left to join Richard Hoover at the Santa Cruz Guitar Company. That Sylvan-to-SCGC thread is a real piece of the Santa Cruz boutique-acoustic story, and the shop's continuing SCGC relationship shows in the inventory: the active Santa Cruz Guitar Company shelf is the deepest single-dealer SC catalog in the atlas, spanning OMs, D Customs, signature models, 50th Anniversary builds, and Custom Shop work. Goodall and Iris each carry a meaningful stack of in-stock boutique acoustics; rotating Lowden inventory rounds it out. The broader catalog runs much wider — Larrivée, Taylor, Duesenberg, Nash, Weber Mandolins, Dusty Strings, plus banjos, dulcimers, violins, and two vintage rooms — but Tonewood Atlas's scope intersects the boutique-acoustic shelf. For California boutique-acoustic shoppers, especially anyone tracking Santa Cruz Guitar Company inventory, Sylvan is the deepest in-person SC catalog on the West Coast plus a meaningful Goodall + Iris destination.
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