Obsession for Greatness
Since many of the people at DR HandMade Strings are players themselves, they are able to use their playing experience, and their own obsession with music, as well as the highly valued input from many players throughout the world, to strive to continually increase the range of sounds available to guitar and bass players. They value the feedback that players are willing to share about how they can hear, feel and appreciate the difference. DR makes a wide range of types and models of guitar strings because they know that each one clearly provides a different sound and feel for the many styles of playing and players.
Guilded Testing
DR HandMade maintains copious amounts of guitars (especially Guild acoustics) for testing the guitar strings they produce. Why Guild guitars? First of all, they like them. Secondly, Mark Dronge, who founded DR HandMade Strings, is the son of Al Dronge, founder of Guild Guitars.
The Fine Art of Fine-Tuning
The goal at DR is to recreate the very best of old fashioned handmade craftsmanship and combine that with most technically advanced materials and/or coatings available to transcend the boundaries of the guitar string manufacturing process. This is done in the pursuit of great sounds to inspire unrivaled musicianship.