Travel Guitars And Basses - The Guitar Sherpa

Adirondack Guitar: Adirondack Guitars offers many travel guitars and basses. Guitars they offer the Fernandes Nomad Deluxe, MiniStar, Wechter, Martin Steel String BackPacker, Traveler Escape EG-1, and the Stagg Viaggio. And for basses they offer the BassStar Travel Bass.Website: Adirondack Guitar Traveler Page

Breedlove Guitars: Breedlove Passport Series guitars are designed for ultimate portability without tonal sacrifice. These comfortable, easy to play instruments are the perfect choice for the musician on the move.
They offer mini-Travel guitars (look for the T at the end of the model number) as well as Full Scale (FS) instruments. FS models have a 25.5" scale and a slightly down-sized body, while mini-Travel instruments have a mini body, a short scale, and are tuned up a fourth from standard. Gig bags are includedWebsite: Breedlove Guitar Passport Series

Brunner Guitars: High quality travel guitar with a detachable neck and compact hardshell case.Website: Brunner Guitars Outdoor Guitars

Fender Guitars: Fender's TG4 traveler has a solid spruce top, mahogany back and sides, a mahogany neck with a rosewood fingerboard and a diminutive but nonetheless easily playable 23.3” scale, and die-cast tuners. Website: Fender Guitars Homepage

Go Guitars: Specializing in travel 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.Website: Compact Guitars

Guitaround Enterprises: Built in headphone amplifiers make these battery powered electric guitars virtually unobtrusive no matter where you play them. Available in three sizes ...all guitars are 5 pounds or less.Website: Guitaround Travel Guitars

K.P. Ukuleles: Every order is custom built featuring all Koa material. Cowboy model, Portugal model, Kaleo 4 string tenor, Laszlo Soprano, 4 string long scale tenor, 4 & 6 string tenor.Website: Travel Guitars

Lehman Guitars:

Lehmann offers the model 1887 travel guitar. It is a full sized instrument with a removable neck that will fit in your suitcase or store in the overhead of an airplane. The strings are tangle free because of a keeper bar that slides into the bridge. The guitar itself includes: mahogany back and sides, a rosewood fingerboard, inlaid wood sound hold rings, black or ivoroid bindings and a rosewood bridge.

Website: Travel Guitars

Martin Guitars:

Martin and Company offers two types backpack guitars: the classical and steel string. Each model has many features that are unique to the backpacker, such as the construction, body size and top bracing pattern

Website: Backpacker Guitars

Michael Collins Guitars: Michael Collins is one of the few luthiers in North America to build reproductions of the Selmer and Maccaferri style guitar, thus yielding a traditional voice and timbre.Website: Gypsy Traveler Guitars

Miranda Guitars: The Miranda guitar travel case fits most airplane carry on compartments. One minute set up & take down, full in size &in depth. Headphones included.Website: Traveler Guitars

Palm Guitar:

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

Website: Miniature Electric Guitars

Blattenberger Guitars:

Blattenberger makes entirely custom made travel guitars. The standard guitars are 24 ¼ inches, but they offer 22 ½, 25 and 26 inches too. The standard woods are curly maple for the tops and mahogany for the backs. They also offer 6,7,8,9,10 and 12 string models. They now offer a new electric acoustic model.

Website: Traveler Guitars

Shapelywood Guitars:

Shapelywood offers handmade personal travel guitars in three different models: the classical, Leisa and 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.

Website: Personal Traveler Guitars

SoloEtte Guitars:

SoloEtte offers five different models of travel guitars: classic maple/ash, classic padauk, hybrid maple, 7 string nylon maple and songbird steel string. Each guitar has the standard scale length, neck width and string spacing.

Website: Traveler Guitars

Stewart Guitars: Stewart Guitars offer two main travel guitars. They 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 different guitar with 22 medium frets, and linear tuning system Website: Traveler Guitars

Tacoma Guitars: Tacoma Guitars offers two traveler guitars. The P1 Papoose and the P112 Papoose. The P1 is portable and unique, natural color, a light satin finish, and rosewood fingerboard and bridge. The P112 is the same guitar but 12 string instead of 6.Website: Papoose Series Traveler Guitars

Taylor Guitars: Taylor guitars offer two main traveler guitars, the Baby Taylor and the Big Baby. Baby Taylor is the ultimate travel companion. It is three-quarters the size of a regular guitar. Which is great for little hands or young kids. The Big Baby is slightly bigger than the Baby Taylor but just shy of a normal guitar.Website: Traveler Guitars

Traveler Guitars: Traveler guitars offers several guitars and specialize in traveler guitars. They offer the escape, escape EG-1, escape MK-11 steel, escape MK-11 bass, escape MK-11 nylon, pro-series, speedster, and the ultra-light. Details on each of them can be found on the provided link.Website: Traveler Guitars

Vagabond Travel Guitar: Vagabond offers one travel guitar, it is 33 inches long, 8 inches wide, and only 2 3/4 inches deep. 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. Website: Traveler Guitars

Washburn Guitars: Washburn Guitars offer two main traveler guitars. The B52SW which has high end features like gold die-cust tuners with ebonite buttons, rosewoods butterfly bridge, and mahogany body binding. The RO10 is the ultimate travel guitar that comes with an instructional CD-ROM, a strap, and 3 picks. It also comes in 4 different colors which are natural. black, blue, and red.Website: Travel Guitars

Wechter Guitars: Wetcher offers four travel guitars inclusing the 1710, 1720, 1730, and the 1735. The guitars come in a number of differnt finishes inclusing spruce or mahogany top, and mahogany, rosewood, or lacewood back. Prices.Website: Travel Guitars

Yona Guitars: Yona Guitar offers one guitar that is called The Yona. It is a compact acoustic gutiar that is made in Jerusalem, Isreal. The guitar has a long thin frame that is ideal for traveling.Website: Travel Guitars

Yamaha Guitars: Yamaha offers one main traveler guitar called the SLG100S. It had set neck construction, rosewood fingerboard, maple body, mahogany neck, and much more.Website: Traveler Guitars

Palatino: The Palatino Travel Bass is the best selling bass in America. Called the VB-004 that features a crack-resistant spruce top and arched maple back, neck is hand carved from solid maple and much more.Website: Travel Bass

iCoustic: The iCoustic Alarez Travel Bass is the name of the actual guitar. The guitar has complete mahogany sides and back, rosewood fingerboard, custom cables for iPod/MP3, and the iCoustic System already installed.Website: Alvarez Travel Bass

Kinal Kompact Guitar: This guitar comes in both acoustic and electric models. Sitka top, mahogany back and a 24" scale.Website: Kinal Kompact Guitar

DeFaioite Stringed Instruments: Suzanna was designed as a travel guitar but is also fun to play at home where it adds to the tonal pallette. It was designed with 605mm scale length and 16 frets clear of the body, which gives great upper neck access. It can be tuned to standard E-E with light or medium gauge strings. Click here for a sound sample. Website: DeFaioite Stringed Instruments