WHAT IT IS AND HOW THEY DO IT
Optimizing the sound of your music--thereby making you sound better, play better and enjoy playing more--is Breedlove's goal. Explaining how they do this gets a little technical, a little nerdy – but here are the fundamental elements which contribute to Optimizing the Sound of Your Music with handcrafted acoustic Breedlove guitars.
THE ELEMENTS OF SOUND OPTIMIZATION
THE TONEWOOD CERTIFICATION PROJECT.
As demand on our world’s forests and environment grow, it is critical to Breedlove that they build guitars using sustainable sourcing. They never use tonewood from clear-cut trees on their USA-made instruments, and are very close to achieving this on all of their overseas products. Traveling throughout the world they go to the forests and work with local families and mills whenever possible. Sustainable sourcing is the right thing to do. You can play with the good feeling knowing your handcrafted acoustic Breedlove guitar was built in harmony with the natural world. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON BREEDLOVE'S TONEWOOD CERTIFICATION PROCESS, CLICK HERE
UNDERSTANDING VARIABILITY IN WOOD.
There’s tremendous variability in a forest, from the top to the bottom of a tree, up to 30%. Every single piece of tonewood must be considered unique. Why does this matter? If this variability is not addressed, the modern acoustic guitar is not living up to its sound potential. The finest instrument builders in history understood tonewood variability. Iconic builders employed hand-tuning and voicing to shape and pair tonewoods capable of taking sound to the highest degree of perfection.
OPTIMIZING THE POTENTIAL IN TONEWOODS.
If the hands which carved the greatest Stradivarious Violins strummed the guitar of today, they would ask, “Why isn’t the modern guitar living up to its potential?” Breedlove's coveted Sound Optimization™ Process and hand voicing makes it possible to handcraft guitars which account for tonewood variability. The result is stunning sound and tone strummed from guitars that play so well, you just can’t put them down.
BREEDLOVE PROPRIETARY BODY SHAPES.
At Breedlove, they design and handcraft the finest sounding, most comfortable playing, hand-crafted guitars. Instead of adopting traditional body shapes and following the status quo, they blaze their own trails - using their Sound Optimization™ process to create revolutionary new body shapes which are distinctly Breedlove.
THE BENEFIT IS SIMPLE
You will sound better, play better and play more on a handcrafted acoustic Breedlove guitar.