Tone first, with Breedlove’s updated Premier Series

The sound of rosewood now—Custom Shop quality and detail.

(This article is also featured in Breedlove’s Winter Magazine).

Fresh from the Custom Shop in Bend, Oregon, Breedlove’s professional-grade Premier series boasts an unmistakable Pacific Northwest influence, bringing traditional U.S. crafting and tried and true American tonewoods to a contemporary, hand-voiced, Sound Optimized® rosewood-backed instrument at a remarkably competitive price.

Define your approach with the iconic sound of East Indian rosewood back and sides and a choice of three distinctive, classic tops—the warmth of coastal redwood, the eternal sparkle and definition of Alaskan Sitka spruce, or the fabled dynamic power of their eastern cousin, Adirondack spruce.

Refine your touch with trademark Made in Bend Breedlove comfort and playability across three of our revolutionary body shapes.

Session ace? Dazzle engineers with nuance and vigor. Stage performer? Elevate every show. Dedicated hobby or festival picker? Fulfill the dream of a lifetime guitar that will grow in value as you grow your skills.

Each Premier is equipped with LR Baggs EAS VTC electronics and deluxe hardshell case; upgraded appointments for 2021 include exquisite diamond fret markers, rich yet reserved burst finishes and subtly dazzling spalted maple rosettes.

Sustainable salvaged redwood and Sitka are iconic in their own way, tall timbers that sing of the Pacific Northwest, with open mountain air and blue sheltering skies.

Redwood tops require little effort to set them singing and offer rewards as mighty as the trees themselves. Connoisseurs love redwood’s symmetry of cedar’s warmth and spruce’s brilliance. Favored by fingerstylists, but growing in popularity with all types of players, redwood enhances rosewood’s blossom of overtones for a new, enchanting guitar experience.

Sitka spruce is the most popular top wood in history because it works, its stiffness adding strength and sparkle; its straight grain providing the very definition of what a guitar’s voice should be. Matched with East Indian Rosewood, there may be no more defining a timbre.

Breedlove’s Jerry Lambert has been playing for as long as he can remember. He favors Sitka with East Indian rosewood because of its even response across the entire spectrum.

“It covers the lows and the highs and everything in between,” he chuckles. “It really is what I think of when you say guitar.”

Adirondack, hailing across the country from the northeast, means business. It’s all about power, with an epic dynamic range. Growling bass, piercing trebles? It’s all there, with the ability to generate all that goodness with a whisper, too. On an East Indian rosewood frame, Adirondack calls up ghosts of the Golden Age of guitars, with a muscular pre-war mystique all its own.

Sound better, play better, play more—play a sustainable, clear-cut free Breedlove Premier. It’s the sound of rosewood now.