Breedlove Pursuit Concert All-Gloss Red Cedar-Ovangkol Acoustic-Electic Guitar SDOTD

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SDOTD $399.00 at MF

OVERVIEW
Comfortable to hold and terrific to play.

The Pursuit Concert acoustic-electric is Breedlove’s best-selling guitar. This all-gloss, red cedar-topped and ovangkol-bodied version sounds warm and beautiful. The Breedlove Bridge Truss facilitates overtones enabling richer more complex sound. The Pursuit Concert Red Cedar-Ovangkol acoustic-electric guitar is easy to play with a 1-11/16" radiused neck. For live performances, it's equipped with Belcat's Iris-1 active pickup system with a 3-band EQ and discrete soundhole controls. Its cutaway body gives full access to all 20 frets.

A gig bag is included.

Body Shape
The Breedlove Concert is the original Breedlove shape. It first appeared in 1992, and has been the best-selling Breedlove body shape ever since. Designed specifically for the fingerstylist to be well-balanced, compact and comfortable to play, it generates a wonderfully articulate range of tone with an ample low end that is never boomy, but always felt. The unique construction also allows the Concert to sing even at a full strum. If you’re a fingerstylist, or are seeking an instrument to use as vocal accompaniment, this is the shape for you. The Concert is engineered to provide exceptional sustain with a pronounced bass response, both of which can be achieved with a light touch. The graduated top works in harmony with the Breedlove Bridge Truss to provide an even response throughout the lows, mids, and highs, with sustain, and clear, concise, note-for-note projection.

Top Wood
Sitka spruce, picea sitchensis, originates in the northwest United States. Sitka spruce has been the primary top wood for American-made instruments for decades. It is strong and light with extended harmonic content, and it nearly equals the power of Adirondack. It offers a strong, focused tone with a solid fundamental -- perfect for flatpicking styles. When compared with European spruce, Sitka delivers warmer, more fundamental sound, largely free of overtones. Sitka takes a slightly longer period of playing time to open up. It has a straight uniform grain and coloration ranges from white to pink to light brown.

Body Wood
Ovangkol is a plentiful evergreen that grows in Western Africa. It is a beautiful tonewood, often with interwoven colorful grain patters. Interestingly, its musical characteristics are almost identical to East Indian rosewood. Specific Gravity: 0.82 ovangkol, 0.83 East Indian rosewood; pounds per cubic feet: 52 ovangkol, 51 East Indian rosewood. Like rosewood, ovangkol efficiently projects bass tones resulting in a rich full sound.

Breedlove Neck
Breedlove guitars feature a slimmer neck profile, which enables comfortable play, even with smaller hands. The hand-rubbed, semi-gloss Breedlove neck finish also contributes to ideal playability. The labor-intensive finish process includes precise finish coat applications, fine sanding, and hand buffing and rubbing.

Breedlove Bridge Truss
The Breedlove Bridge Truss (BBT) reduces tension on the soundboard of the guitar, so the top wood is able to vibrate more freely, producing remarkable sustain, balance, and clarity. The BBT also allows for a thinner graduated top, thereby allowing Breedlove craftsmen to bring out the optimal sound from the top wood without sacrificing structural stability. Relieving much of the string tension from the bridge prevents “bridge belly,” ensuring top stability for decades. Guitar strings can exert up to 230 pounds of pull from the nut to the bridge. Traditional methods for preventing top bowing at the bridge usually involve heavy internal bracing and thicker tops. The BBT compensates for this pressure in an innovative way: The BBT is mounted to the bridge from the inside and is connected into the tail block of the guitar, pulling downward on the underside of the bridge to distribute some of the tension, relieving pressure on the top. The resulting tonal effect on BBT-equipped guitars is more resonance and livelier sound with enhanced overtones.

Breedlove Pinless Bridge
The Breedlove Pinless Bridge helps maintain the integrity of the top by eliminating the need for six drilled string holes. The fewer holes in your soundboard, the more evenly the sound wave can move across the interior, without any loss of energy. The Breedlove Pinless Bridge also provides a gentler string-break angle from the bridge to the top of the saddle, reducing saddle strain. This innovative bridge also makes string changes a breeze, especially on 12 strings. Plus, you’ll never again have to worry about lost, worn-out, or broken bridge pins.

FEATURES
Slim neck profile
Belcat Iris-1 pickup system with 3-band EQ, phase
Natural finish
Pursue your dream with this special Breedlove. Order today.

SPECIFICATIONS
Body
Body type: Concert
Cutaway: Single
Top wood: Solid red cedar
Back and sides: Ovangkol
Bracing pattern: X
Body finish: Gloss top, back, sides
Orientation: Right handed
Neck
Neck shape: C
Nut width: 1.69" (43 mm)
Fingerboard: Ovangkol
Neck wood: Okume
Scale length: 25.5"
Number of frets: 20
Neck finish: Semi-gloss, hand-rubbed
Electronics
Pickup/preamp: Yes
Brand: Belcat
Configuration: Soundhole mounted preamp
Preamp EQ: 3-band
Feedback filter: Phase
Tuner: No
Other
Headstock overlay: Stained basswood
Tuning machines: Chrome closed gear
Bridge: Ebony
Saddle and nut: Bone
Number of strings: 6
Special features: Saddle, truss wrench, sticker
Case: Gig bag

[Rosewood99]

You are in the wrong section.

[AZLiberty]

Yesterday's STOTD was also a Breedlove Pursuit. (different model)

If the Nylon version goes on the STODT I'll grab one.

[Steadfastly]

Originally Posted by paulzoom

You are in the wrong section.

I think you think I was selling. I am not. This was a SDOTD from MF