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By traveler guitar, I mean the specially designed products without head stocks that are mainly heard via earphones. Lots of choices apparently, but do any in particular favor a jazz sound? Put another way, do any of you own one?
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12-15-2012 10:08 AM
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Do you need a "performance" guitar, or just something to noodle with in the hotel during travels? THere's a big difference.
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Noodling is the main use, but suggestions for a performance level guitar would also be of interest. Thanks...
Originally Posted by marcwhy
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I have a Hofner Shorty, it has a full 62.5cm scale neck and also includes a bag.
They are very inexpensive in Europe and play like an electric.
This:
Only $139.00 on ebay.Last edited by Dirk; 01-15-2020 at 06:09 PM.
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I modified a Traveler EG-2 with Fender Vintage Noiseless Pickups and a removeable covering over the bottom tuners ( I tend to be a finger planter). It sounds great played through headphones and gives up very little, if any, to full size strats played through an amp. I was on a cruise in June and a number of folks played it and all were amazed by how good it sounded.
JazzBoob
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OK, thanks. For "jazz," I don't think there are any inexpensive models. When you get to the Soloette jazz models, which are great, they're the price of a "real" guitar (but are also performance-worthy). Originally Posted by rschwa9966
I don't consider ergonomic (Klein-style) guitars to be "travel" guitars, but they are wonderful for travel! The real ones (Forshage, Canton, Curtis, Victor Baker) are several thousand dollars, but are worth it, IMHO.
I recently, however, purchased a klein-style on eBay for about $300 -- I brought it to my office to practice at lunch! -- and it's a perfect noodling/practicing/traveling guitar. It's from Brian at B&V WoodWorks (eBay name: "catfoosh") Give him a call.
Marc
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Frameworks!
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I've had a 'Vagabond' with a built-in passive piezo (www.stringsmith.com) for 14 years now. You'd be amazed how good it sounds for jazz through a 112 ER, albeit with a heavy hand on the EQ!
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A Tele? Get brass insets so that there's no wear in unbolting and rebolting the neck, and locking tuners so that it's easy to reattach the strings. Maybe a thinlne so that it's a little louder acoustically.
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SoOOoo... what's Frameworks? Did I miss it?
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+1 Hofner Shorty. Unvarnished neck has a great feel.
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ABOUT FRAMEWORKS GUITARS Originally Posted by BigDaddyLoveHandles
GREAT instruments!
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I searched for a proper travel guitar that could meet my needs and always came up empty. Then, I got a Benedetto Andy which is not only reasonably small and comfortable to play, but it can handle gigging very well. The amplified tone is remarkable. It represents a good middle ground between great tone and small size, two characteristics that are usually mutually exclusive in this category.
Good luck.Last edited by mikeSF; 12-16-2012 at 11:06 AM.
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Yamaha make something called a silent guitar , in steel and nylon , with onboard headphone amp / eq / reverb too , its like a neck with a detachable frame , very comfortable to play and comes with a handy gig bag ,
one of my students has one and the pickup which is a yamaha design piezo type so very good , if you roll off tops i manged to get a nice woody /acoustic flavoured jazz tone ,good eoungh to say i've heard many full size mid range archtops with worse jazz tone , this guitar is definitely an option for a jazz tone ,
a pleasant surprise i was expecting a more flattop tone
now i already been thinking to buy one and fit a floating humbucker in neck position and blend in that acoustic tone
( mmmm thats like the yamaha martin taylor used to play then .... )
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how much are the frameworks guitars--- there is no price on there website..
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anything out there that is collapsible/foldable? i saw some acoustics that did that, but an electric would be great. also, something with a neck pickup. if it was headless, or folded, the hofner would be just fine, especially considering the price.
also, i kinda wish someone just did the obvious and made them with a shorter scale. that wouldn't bother me at all, but i guess i'm in the minority there.
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Today about 3 000 Euro with tax...I think. Originally Posted by JazzHifi
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Sadowsky SS-15 is a great airplane companion. Like they say - is does fit in those overhead airline bins.
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I use a PRS SE (with custom paint of course
) I picked it up cheap due to a trashed finish and redid that myself. I had plenty of maple scraps around, so I did binding, too.
Makes a good travel guitar. Nice and light and the Duncan P90s are pretty versatile.
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Soloettes are collapsable, as are the less expensive version by Aria ("Sinsonido"). Originally Posted by feet
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I love my Sinsonido steel-string with .012 flatwounds, it's perfect for holiday purposes and noodling in hotel rooms: plays well, virtually indestructible and surprisingly it sounds acoustically very good (at very low volume of course, you need to be in a very quiet place). Amplified it leaves a lot to be desired, I'm thinking of disabling the bridge/tube/element and just put a single P90 in with passive electronics. Originally Posted by marcwhy
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Originally Posted by Little Jay
Same here, i love mine, regardless its defects:
-very convenient, affordable
-great neck
-a strange but usable plugged sound, between acoustic and single coil but giving a decent jazz tone with proper EQ
-a somewhat strange bridge that could be a problem if worn out too much
mine is and if it goes on like this i will have trouble getting a high action, for once !
-eating an alkaline battery too quickly
-tone controls almost useless
-horrible tuners that got almost immediatly replaced by those great Stewmac generic economy tuners.
also considering removing this strange bridge for a TOM and ditching the PU for a mag PU, but obviously the top needs to be carved for a PU to fit.
Maybe a flat PU like in cigarbox guitars.
Little jay, i'd be very curious how you would replace the PU.
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Originally Posted by xuoham
Little jay, i'd be very curious how you would replace the PU.
Yeah, it would involve carving some wood away. I have yet to check and see if that wouldn't weaken the 'body' too much.
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Adrian legg has a guitar built to fit in an overhead bin.
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(Spits out coffee.) That much for a guitar that doesn't cast a shadow? Originally Posted by kris
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