Breedlove Guitars introduces four new ECO Collection models at the 2025 NAMM Show.
Breedlove Guitars is proud to announce the launch of four stunning new additions to its ECO Collection, set to debut at the 2025 National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) Show in Anaheim, California. These guitars demonstrate Breedloveās commitment to sustainability, innovation, and accessible performance for players at every level. Designed with EcoTonewood technology, each model combines exceptional tone, cutting-edge craftsmanship, and environmental responsibility.
Discovery S Concert Satin White CE - European Spruce-African Mahogany
Perfectly balancing affordability and performance, this model is designed for beginners while delivering sound and playability that advanced players will appreciate. Its solid European spruce top and layered African mahogany back and sides, paired with Cascade Bracing, produce rich, balanced tones with superior resonance. The sleek satin white finish and soft cutaway offer modern aesthetics and effortless playability, making it an excellent choice for players exploring a range of musical styles.
Street: $549.
Discovery S Concert Satin Black Nylon CE - Red Cedar-African Mahogany
This nylon-string guitar offers warm, rich tones with modern versatility, perfect for players seeking expressive nylon tones. Its solid red cedar top, layered African mahogany back and sides, and Cascade Bracing ensure tonal balance and resonance. The satin black finish and soft cutaway enhance accessibility and style, while its lightweight design makes it equally appealing to beginners and experienced players.
Street: $549.
Discovery S Concert Satin Black Double Course CE - European Spruce-African Mahogany
A fresh take on the 12-string guitar, this model is crafted to inspire creativity in players of all levels. The solid European spruce top and layered African mahogany back and sides create lush, resonant tones, while the innovative Cascade Bracing ensures tonal clarity and dynamic range. Finished in satin black with a soft cutaway, this guitar combines modern aesthetics with superior playability, delivering a bold sound that stands out on any stage.
Street: $699.
Rainforest S Concert Black Gold LH CE - African Mahogany-African Mahogany
Designed for left-handed players, this model offers a versatile and comfortable playing experience. Its African mahogany top and layered African mahogany back and sides produce warm, balanced tones with rich midrange presence, making it suitable for various styles. The striking Black Gold finish and EcoTonewood construction reflect Breedloveās dedication to sustainability. Equipped with onboard electronics, this guitar is stage-ready and delivers premium sound for practice or performance.
Street: $599.
āEach of these new models represents Breedloveās commitment to making guitars that inspire creativity while protecting our planetās resources,ā said Angela Christensen, head of product development and wood management for Breedlove Guitars. āFrom innovative designs to EcoTonewoods, these instruments offer players the opportunity to grow their musical journey with a guitar that feels, sounds, and looks incredible.ā
The new ECO Collection models will be unveiled at the 2025 NAMM Show, which will take place Jan. 23-25 at the Anaheim Convention Center. Visit Breedlove Guitars at Booth 212A to experience these innovative guitars in person.
For more information, please visit breedlovemusic.com.
At Breedlove, this resonant local resourceāin stunning natural and color-added finishesāis the foundation for a wide range of world-class instruments, including new Custom Shop, Oregon, Exotic, Eco, and Pro models.
Tonewoods, by definition, play a critical role in shaping an acoustic instrumentās sound and character. Thatās why myrtlewoodāwith its stunning aesthetics, sustainable sourcing, versatile tonal qualities, responsiveness, dynamic range, and visual appealāhas emerged in recent years as a top-tier choice for luthiers and musicians. This sometimes-overlooked treasure of the Pacific Northwest both enhances the visual appeal of a guitar and elevates its sonic capabilities.
Although the use of myrtlewood in guitar building was spearheaded by Breedlove Guitars in the ā90s, and itās a local resource for the Bend, Oregon-based company, today appreciation for the evergreen as raw material for instruments is growing. And Breedlove is offering a series of new myrtlewood-based guitars to keep pace.
Breedlove Guitars: The Myrtlewood Story
Myrtlewoodās appeal lies in its tonal properties. It boasts a spectrum that can be described as a blend of rosewood, mahogany, and mapleāoffering a balanced palette, clear and pronounced highs, warm midrange, and tight, controlled bass response. This balance ensures that myrtlewood guitars can handle fingerpicking, strumming, or flatpicking with equal grace.
Responsive, Articulate, Dynamic
Myrtlewoodās unique, uniform cellular structure and density contribute to its exceptional responsiveness and articulation. It allows the guitar to produce a quick, precise attack with excellent note separation, making it an excellent choice for intricate fingerstyle playing and percussive techniques. As a result, musicians often praise myrtlewood for its ability to capture the subtle nuances of their playing style. Another advantage is its impressive dynamic range. Myrtlewood responds well to changes in playing intensity, from delicate fingerpicking to powerful strumming. This makes it an ideal choice for musicians who want to explore a wide range of expressive possibilities within their playing.
A Stunning TonewoodĀ āĀ Natural or with Creative Colorwork
Myrtlewood is visually captivating, with a wide range of organic colors and grain patterns. It can range from pale yellow and golden tan to deep purples, reds, and browns. Its figuringāwhich includes quilted, curly, and spalted patternsāmakes each piece of myrtlewood unique. Breedlove guitars has been crafting guitars out of myrtlewood for almost 30 years. During this time, weāve discovered myrtlewood not only looks fantastic in its natural form (as seen in the new Oregon Series Companion guitar below), but also comes alive with various color applications.
The New USA-Made Companion Acoustic Travel-Sized Guitars
Breedloveās striking myrtlewood finishes have made plenty of waves in the acoustic guitar industry. The tradition continues with the release of our brand-new stormy night finish on the Oregon Series. This elegant and alluring finish has quickly become a favorite with everyone who has seen it first-hand. It draws its inspiration from a tempestuous night sky in Arizona, rocked by a lightning storm that only a desert can produce.
Breedlove Concert Stormy Night CE Myrtlewood Acoustic Guitar Demo
Along similarly colorful lines, the TB Vintage Edition Blues Orange Concertina M1 is a re-imagining of Breedlove owner Tom Bedellās personal custom acoustic guitar. Part of the TB Vintage Edition lineup, it draws inspiration from the allure of exotic tonewoods, while being enriched by Tomās life journey. Crafted using figured myrtlewood, of course, the TB Vintage Edition Blues Orange Concertina M1 is a fun example of what happens when figured myrtlewood is hit with vibrant colorwork! And, of course, the myrtlewood imparts all the tonal warmth, detail, and precise midrange articulation that one would expect.
Breedlove Blues Orange Concertina M1 Acoustic Guitar
Myrtlewood for Every Player
While Breedlove uses myrtlewood on Custom Shop and various USA-made acoustics, it is also incorporated in many of the more affordably priced models in the ECO Collection and Organic Pro Collection.
Breedlove Organic Pro Artista Pro Guitar Series with Designer Angela Christensen
Although myrtlewood already delivers surprising energy and extraordinary tonal balance, we paired it with European spruce on these models, for a more responsive, powerful projection. This professional-grade, all-solid model packs a tremendous amount of value into a more affordable acoustic guitar.
BREEDLOVE ECO COLLECTION: PURSUIT EXOTIC S SERIES
The Pursuit Exotic S Seriesāfeaturing TUSQ nuts and saddles and Breedloveās Earth-conscious, sonically superior EcoTonewood technologyāallows you to affordably experience the pure, nuanced sound and striking visual beauty of exotically alluring myrtlewood.
How the Bend, Oregon, builders create slimmed-down instruments that have full-bodied soundāblending modern acoustic science with traditional craftsmanship.
While thinline acoustic guitars have been on the scene for some time, theyāve typically required a compromise between ergonomic comfort and a full-depth instrumentās warm, rich sound. Eliminating this compromise was core to the vision behind Breedloveās new thinline guitar body shape. Our goal was to create an acoustic guitar body nearly an entire inch shallower, while retaining the full-depth tone and response guitarists expect from a Breedlove.
The story behind this modern guitar advancement combines our passion for art and acoustic innovation. It was an exercise in thoughtfully melding the application of our proprietary Sound Optimization technology with astute craftsmanship and, like any worthwhile pursuit, a lot of time, trial, and error.
Letās dive into the technology-driven R&D process and explain the tonal benefits of our Sound Optimization process. We also encourage you to pick up one of these Breedlove Thinlines yourself to hear how the thin, ultra-light body responds to the room, coming alive in your hands. Tuck it close and give it a strum.
But first, letās start with the advantage a thinline body offers: comfort. Thinline guitars have a shallower depth than standard body shapes. You can tuck them in close to your own body and feel more engaged with the strings. The lack of bulk and heft are also fantastic for smaller players fatigued by larger-bodied acoustics. Ultimately, you feel more connected when playing a thinline.
Breedlove craftsman Ian Cook explains, āBringing a thinline guitar in tight is an intimate feeling that connects you with the instrument. When you can combine that with playing comfort and inspiring full-depth-like tone, youāre experiencing something special.ā
MEET YOUR MAKERS: Breedlove Guitar's Ian Cook
Breedlove builder Ian Cook explains the companyās Sound Optimization processāa mix of scientific assessment and hands-on craftsmanship.
In the Beginning
Hereās how we made a guitar body thinner and maintained the desired sound. We knew we wanted to use our Concert body shape as the platform for this new design. We had already engineered it for optimal ergonomics and tonal balance. We just had to figure out how to slim it down while keeping everything, sonically, that makes it a Breedlove favorite.
First, we tested quite a few body depths to find the perfect starting point. We also had to achieve the ideal taper from the sound boxās heel block to the tail block on the lower bout. This was much more complicated than slicing inches off the body. Then came the really hard part.
Crafting the Tone
So much of an acoustic guitarās tone comes from its size. The bigger the body, the more air that can move inside the soundbox, producing the big, billowing low end we all love. In the past, if you thinned a guitar down, you lost that tone.
Though nearly an inch thinner than our standard Concert, the Breedlove Thinline body achieves its full-size tone via specialized bracing that we fine-tuned through our Sound Optimization process. If this is the first time youāve heard of Breedlove Sound Optimization, click this link to learn more about it. Then, watch the video below to see the process for yourself.
Breedlove Sound Optimization
See how much of Breedloveās Sound Optimization process is based on embracing the nature of wood. Not every potential top or back makes the grade.
We built countless prototypes, fine-tuning each one until our designers and builders cracked the code, creating an acoustic guitar with the ergonomics and intimacy of a thinline body and the voice of a full-depth instrumentāall of the benefits, none of the compromises.
Sounds too good to be true? Breedlove Wood Management and Product Development Manager Angela Christensen thought so, too. āThe results even surprised us,ā she says. āIf you couldnāt see the guitar that was being played, you would never guess it had such a thin profile!ā
These new guitars come in three distinctly different models, now playable at your local Breedlove dealerās shop. Hereās a look at each one.
Premier Concert Thinline Edgeburst CE
The first Thinline in our Made in Bend Premier Series is the Premier Concert Thinline Edgeburst CE. This slimmed-down acoustic brings together solid redwood and rosewood without losing any of those woodsā articulation or bell-like projection. It also retains the Concertās signature low-end warmth. Through Sound Optimization, we fine-tune each piece of these tonewoods for optimal frequency response, creating a guitar that sounds as captivating as it is comfortable to play.
Breedlove Premier Concert Thinline Edgeburst CE Acoustic Guitar
This articulate redwood and rosewood instrument is hand-voiced and entirely handmade in our Custom Shop, to achieve ultimate comfort and tone.
Oregon Series Concert Thinline Stormy Night
Also handcrafted in Bend, the Breedlove Oregon Concert CE in our Stormy Night finish showcases myrtlewoodās unparalleled beauty. The tonewood and Thinline Concert body shape deliver a balanced, detailed voice with a rich resonance equally suited for strumming and nuanced fingerstyle, even when plugged in via its onboard L.R. Baggs electronics.
OREGON CONCERT THINLINE STORMY NIGHT MYRTLEWOOD ACOUSTIC GUITAR
Crafted with full sustainable Oregon myrtlewood, this instrument has a finish inspired by a desert storm over an Arizona night skyāas visually striking as it is inspiring to play.
Performer Pro Performer Thinline
The Organic Pro Performer Thinline is our production thinline acoustic guitar. Although it was initially designed to accommodate players preferring a smaller instrument, we quickly realized that no one in the shop wanted to put the guitar down. Itās just so comfortable! With a solid European spruce top and solid Indian rosewood or African mahogany back and sides, this no-compromise guitar gives an intimate and ergonomic feel to a classic look and sound.
Add in Fishman Flex Plus-T electronics, and you have a pro-level, stage-ready acoustic-electric guitar youāll want to play for hours on end. For more information on all of Breedloveās handcrafted acoustic guitars, visit breedlovemusic.com.