Breedlove Premier Series Concert Edgeburst CE

Please note: This guitar comes with a hardshell case.

Tone first. Stake your claim with a professional grade Premier Concert. Connoisseurs love redwood’s immediate, responsive 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. The pioneering light, versatile soft cutaway Concert body is suited equally to fingers or flatpick, with unparalleled dynamics, projection and sustain—it’s all you want in a stage-ready, studio-worthy guitar, and more.

Breedlove, always pioneering, has been building with redwood tops for over 25 years. A majestic native tonewood, it has a stiffness similar to spruce, but offers fingerstylists a rich, warm palette with a soft cedar-like attack and overtones often described like wine, with hints of chocolate and cinnamon. Flatpickers love its distinctive note separation, and its simple beauty connects directly with the earthiness of its sound.

Redwood Top
A light touch makes redwood talk, and the tallest trees have a lot to say. Redwood sounds vintage from the start, with rich overtones and a dynamic complexity drawn out by skilled fingers. Each string speaks, with strong note separation and a deep, crisp timbre.

East Indian Rosewood Back & Sides
The familiar scooped sound profile of a classic dreadnought comes largely from East Indian rosewood, which emphasizes round bass tones and clear trebles, leaving a valley custom made for the human voice. The same carefully sourced qualities offer presence and definition to smaller bodies, along with great dynamic range.

Sound Optimization® & Hand Voicing
Why do Breedlove guitars sound so good? It’s simple, Breedlove guitars are made with care, with the goal of allowing you to play better, sound better and play more. But it’s also complex, with art, inspiration, craft and science merging together in a process we call Sound Optimization®. These models are hand voiced, with experienced luthiers meticulously tapping, listening and shaving away tiny curls of exquisite tonewood as they target specific, measurable frequencies that will make each unique, individual instrument sound its very best. The tone wood species are carefully milled, weighed and considered, with backs and tops specifically tuned to each other to create light, responsive guitars with superior tone and sustain.

Sustainable & Clear-Cut Free
Breedlove uses no clear-cut woods in its Made in Bend models. It’s that’s simple. Featuring sustainably sourced all solid exotic and native tonewoods handcrafted by skilled luthiers who are as sensitive to the needs of the earth as they are to building the best sounding and playing guitars available anywhere.

Breedlove Neck
Breedlove guitar necks feature a slimmer neck profile which enables comfortable play, even with smaller hands. Unlike traditional dovetail neck joints that require major surgery for a neck re-set, it is easy to adjust the play action and neck angle with the Breedlove bolt-on neck and single-action truss rod. The hand-rubbed, semi-gloss Breedlove neck finish contributes to ideal playability – the finish process alone takes three days, including precise finish coat applications, fine sanding, and hand buffing and rubbing.

Concert Body Shape
The Concert, Breedlove’s most popular body shape—designed 30 years ago and still going strong—is favored by discerning players for its versatile, balanced, articulate sound and its easy playing ergonomic comfort. This flagship platform performs equally well strummed or fingerpicked, and is perfectly poised for accompanying the human voice.

Redwood Top
A light touch makes redwood talk, and the tallest trees have a lot to say. Redwood sounds vintage from the start, with rich overtones and a dynamic complexity drawn out by skilled fingers. Each string speaks, with strong note separation and a deep, crisp timbre.

Light Play Style
The Breedlove Play Style system was created to help you, the player, select your sound and playing style. Finding the most appropriate guitar to fit your sound requires finding not only the correct body shape, but the proper tonewood combinations to fit your style of play. Each Breedlove guitar is designed for a specific play style and sound, the Play Style systems assign a playing style icon to each instrument.

L | Lighter Play, Fingerstyle: One of Breedlove’s specialties is crafting guitars with a more focused, individual note-for-note clarity and tonal balance.

WOOD AND ANIMAL CONTENTS

Top: Redwood | Sequoia sempervirens | United States
Back and Sides: East Indian rosewood | Dalbergia latifolia | India
Neck: Honduran mahogany | Swietenia macrophylla | Guatemala
Fretboard: African ebony | Diospyros crassiflora | Republic of Congo
Bridge: African ebony | Diospyros crassiflora | Republic of Congo
Headstock overlay: African ebony | Diospyros crassiflora | Republic of Congo
Body Binding: Tortoise / Plastic
Body Purfling: Plastic
Fretboard Binding: None
Fretboard Purfling: None
Headstock Binding: None
Headstock Purfling: None
Bracing: Sitka spruce | Picea sitchensis | United States
Back Strip / Side Brace: Honduran mahogany | Swietenia macrophylla | Guatemala
Kerfing: African Mahogany | Khaya senegalensis | Republic of Congo
Bridge Plate: Eastern hard rock maple | Acer saccharum | United States
Neck / Tailblock: Honduran mahogany | Swietenia macrophylla | Guatemala
Logo: Polyester
Fretboard Inlay: Polyester, Spalted maple/ Acer spp./ USA
Nut / Saddle: TUSQ

SPECIFICATIONS

Body Type: Concert
Top Finish: Edgeburst
Back & Side Finish: Gloss
Cutaway: Soft
Headstock shape: Asymmetrical
Scale Length: 25.5"
# Frets: 20
Nut Width: 1.75"
Lower Bout Width: 15.37"
Waist Width: 9"
Upper Bout Width: 11.28"
Body Length: 19.875"
Body Depth at neck: 3.75"
Body Depth at tailblock: 4.5"
Sound Hole Diameter: 4"
Tuners: Breedlove, nickel
Electronics: LR Baggs EAS VTC
String Gauge: D'Addario XT PB Light
Case: Deluxe hardshell