Travel Guitars and Basses

The Palatino travel bass is the best selling travel size stand-up bass in America. The VB-004 features a spruce top and arched maple back. The neck is hand carved from solid maple.

Michael Collins is one of the few luthiers in North America to build reproductions of the Selmer and Maccaferri gypsy jazz style guitars in a travel size.

This company specializes in travel size acoustic guitars. The four types currently offered are GO Mahogany, GO Walnut, Go Grande Mahogany and GO Grande Walnut. The Grande styles are a thicker design with more air volume giving them a larger sound. All GO travel guitars weigh 3 pounds or less.

Shapelywood offers handmade personal travel guitars in three different acoustic electric models: the Classical, Leisa and the Skinny. All soundboards are made with spruce, and backs/sides and necks are made with either mahogany, walnut, maple or spruce. Neck widths vary from 43 to 52.

The Suzanna was designed as an acoustic travel guitar but is also fun to play at home. This instrument is designed with a 605mm scale length and 16 frets clear of the body, giving great upper neck access. It can be tuned to standard E-E with light or medium gauge strings.

Stewart Guitars offer two main travel size electric guitars. Both are full size, full scale guitars that come into two pieces. The Road Runner has a solid alder wood body, three single coil pickups, rosewood fingerboard, and much more. The Stow Away offers 22 medium frets and a linear tuning system.

Vagabond offers one travel size acoustic guitar at 33 inches in length, 8 inches in width, and only 2 3/4 inches in depth. It has a solid spruce top, mahogany neck, rosewood fretboard and bridge, laminated birch back and sides, and an adjustable truss rod. They also offer a left handed model.

Wechter builds the Travel Elite series of acoustic and acoustic electric guitars. Options include a spruce top (with or without amplification) and a mahogany top (with or without amplification). 

The Miranda acoustic electric travel guitar and case fits most airplane carry on compartments, featuring one minute set up and take down. The body of this guitar folds up to fit in it's case. Headphones are included and it comes in either steel string or nylon string (classical) models.

Brunner offers the travel size acoustic "Outdoor Guitar" with a detachable neck and compact hardshell case.

Palm offers the worlds smallest precision electric guitar, only 26 inches long.

Yona offers one travel model called The Yona. It is a compact acoustic guitar made in Jerusalem, Isreal. This guitar has a long thin frame ideal for traveling.

Crafter offers five models of travel guitars, including one left handed version. All feature solid spruce tops. To view their travel guitars, click on the following sequence once you get to their web site: crafter/body type/travel body/view.

Emerald builds their travel guitars (acoustic, electric and bass versions) out of composite materials instead of wood. Many of them feature a full scale length. Acoustic travel guitars can be fixed with electronics.

Wildwood builds acoustic travel guitars with a short scale (435mm) but a standard width neck. They also feature solid spruce tops. These guitars are tuned a 5th above normal.

The Lapstick travel guitar is a short scale electric guitar with a scale length 3/4 of a normal electric guitar. These guitars can be tuned a minor third to a fifth higher than normal. Features include a battery-powered preamp for headphones.

Beaver Creek offers their Travel Size Series of acoustic electric guitars. These are scaled down models that allow you to take your instrument wherever you go. The BCRB501E features a cutaway body. All travel guitars feature Shadow passive electronics.

Tanglewood's  Evolution Series TB-Baby is a travel size guitar with a cedar top and mahogany back/sides. Other features include a rosewood fingerboard and bridge, and maple binding.

Leach Guitars carries the Voyage-Air Songwriter Series of travel guitars that feature fold-up necks.

Blackbird build travel guitars out of composite materials instead of wood. Models include a ukulele, the Blackbird Rider (in both steel and nylon string), the Lucky 13, and the Super OM.

The Bone is a silent guitar, great for traveling or when you need to practice anywhere at any time. It features a standard scale length and weighs in at only 2.6 lbs. Other features include a headless design with an integrated pickup system, volume and tone controls.

Frameworks builds "silent" electro-acoustic travel guitars. These guitars can be amplified to provide a natural acoustic sound.

Eagle Music is a dealer of the Ozark 3330 travel guitar. These guitars feature a compact design and a solid spruce top with good volume. It has mahogany back/sides and a rosewood fingerboard.

Ministar offers the "MINISTAR PRO" lineup of small full-size guitars and basses, and the "ACOUSTAR" full scale acoustic guitar that lets you put the neck inside the body for travel.