Cascade Bracing

Every USA made Breedlove guitar gets hand-voiced by one of our builders in Bend, Oregon. These craftspeople achieve sonic perfection by meticulously shaping each instrument’s internal bracing. But, we’re not just artists and artisans, we’re guitar geeks. We keep meticulous records—every refinement, every change, every delicate curl of wood off the chisel gets logged in our database.

We used all that combined knowledge and experience to answer a simple question: “How can we make our accessible, production guitars sound even closer to the showpieces from our Custom Shop?” The answer? Cascade Bracing.

Data-informed with quantifiable sonic benefit, our new Cascade Bracing, brings Custom Shop quality sound to every Breedlove guitar. Drawing inspiration from the volcanic peaks of the Cascade Mountains in our backyard, the Breedlove luthiers scalloped lightweight, sturdy braces that rise and fall much like the vista out our back windows. Because each of our distinctive guitar body shapes produces slightly different tones and frequencies, we tailored specialized bracing patterns to maximize the sound quality for each style of guitar we build.