Best Travel Guitar Review

If you’re a regular traveler or possibly planning on an extended period of traveling, it’s unlikely you’ll want to take a full-sized electric guitar with you.

Full-size guitars are not only heavy but also cumbersome and frequently troublesome to transport. If you’re traveling by plane, you’ve even more problems to face. The regulations regarding your rights to take your guitar on a flight, as carry-on luggage, are ambiguous and all too frequently at the good or bad will of the ground staff.

Therefore you need one of the best travel electric guitars currently available. These can be taken anywhere and are lightweight and compact. So, let’s get this best electric travel guitar review underway and see what the world of electric travel guitars has to offer…

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The first of our best travel electric guitars under review is the Stewart Electric Travel Guitar. Which is every bit a full-sized electric guitar, with a full 648 mm scale length and 22 medium frets. The fretboard is constructed from Amaranth with simple Pearloid dot inlays. The neck has a 14” radius and is made from maple. The nut width is 42 mm.

It features an Alder body with a traditional tobacco sunburst high gloss finish. The shape of the body, the volume and tone controls, the five-way toggle switch, the slotted hardtail, and the three Alnico single-coil pickups all contribute to its classic Stratocaster looks.

One of the great things about this guitar is that it has a full-sized body and scale length. Playing it feels every bit the same as playing a normal non-travel guitar. You’ll have no adjustments to make playing the Stewart Electric Travel Guitar.

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The sound is clear, detailed, and bright. This is exactly as you’d expect from Alnico 3 low output pick-ups. There are, of course, plenty of options to dial in different tones by switching between pickups and blending the mix with the tone controls.

The main feature of the Stewart electric guitar is its patented Clip-joint removable neck. This is really quick and easy to assemble or collapse, without loosening strings, in mere seconds. The nice thing is that also, after re-assembly, the guitar typically stays in tune.

The main body of the guitar and the through-body neck are made from American hard maple with a natural finish. The fretboard is black walnut, and it has 22 medium frets with simple Pearloid dot inlays and a nut width of 1.75”.

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This is a headless guitar that utilizes its own Traveler In-Body Tuning System™. It operates with the clever location of standard tuners located within the main body of the guitar. It has a single dual-rail humbucker and an adjustable Tune-o-Matic style bridge.

This is a lightweight and small guitar. It weighs 3lbs 2ozs and has a total length of 28” with a body width of 5.25” and thickness of no more than 2”.

The Traveler Guitar Ultra-Light has a detachable lap rest. Without it, when playing sat down, it would be like trying to put your arms around Kate Moss. Tricky, to say the least.

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It’s overall size, and weight make it one of the smallest full-scaled travel guitars on the market. With the case, it only measures 30” x 6.5” x 3″ and weighs just under 4lbs. This makes it an absolute breeze to transport.

The company claims it to be 28% shorter and 68% lighter than a ‘typical’ electric guitar. The fact is we don’t find this kind of market-speak useful in any way. Guitars’ sizes and weights vary so much, whichever marketeer came up with these statistics should have stayed home that day.

You get plenty of output with the Ultra-Light, courtesy of the dual-rail humbuckers. The power and tone are great, but there is only a single humbucker and no tone controls. There’s no volume either. Consequently, all changes you make are going to be via your amp. This is not ideal.

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The neck, frets, and fret-end are all smooth, and the action is low straight out of the box. So far, so good, as far as playability is concerned. However, when sat down and playing, the weight of its neck keeps forcing it to angle down. This is because of the relative weight of the neck in comparison to a very lightweight body. It’s annoying at first, but you do get used to it.

Also annoying is the Kate Moss friendly lap rest. It’s a great idea in theory, but the metal surface is slippery and keeps sliding around when you’re playing. The use of a different material could easily sort this out.

The Shredneck Travel Guitar is a Les Paul styled guitar with a compact ¾ scale length. This is a small guitar measuring 9.5” across and only 33” high.

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The body is made from Nato with a flamed Maple top, which has a beautiful high gloss cherry burst finish. The neck is also Maple with 22 frets, rosewood crown fretboard, and simple Pearloid dot inlays. It has a traditional headstock with chrome-plated tuners.

There are master volume and tone controls with a three-way toggle switch. The three-way toggle switch is placed between the tone and volume controls. Someone needs to have a quiet word and tell ShredNeck that it’s in the wrong place. Top left-hand corner guys. Top left-hand corner.

The fact is that it’s easy to get a low action and easy to play fast licks and passages of music. The lower string tension makes fretting and bending easier. People with smaller hands or children may particularly benefit from the ¾ sized fretboard. Conversely, people with really broad fingers might find things a little cramped and, therefore, more difficult to play.

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Though the short scale length takes some getting used to; conversely, the relatively normal-sized body makes it feel natural to play. It’s not always the case with travel guitars, but it’s a feature we really appreciate.

The two humbuckers produce some gritty, heavy sounds when the gain is cranked. Happily, it plays well through clean channels too. What’s more, the onboard tone control and ability to switch between pickups give plenty of options to shape your sound.

Could all these great features make this the very best of the best travel electric guitars? Well, read on to find out…

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The Traveler Ultra-Light Acoustic-Electric Guitar is very similar to the Traveler Electric Guitar we looked at a little earlier. Most of the materials and measurements are the same. So, let’s dive in and take a look at the specs on this acoustic travel guitar and see what’s the same and what isn’t.

Firstly, the acoustic travel guitar has the same though compact body with a full 24 3/4″ scale length. The through-body neck is manufactured using American hard maple. The fretboard is made from black walnut, with 22 medium frets, and has simple Pearloid dot inlays. The nut width is 1.75”.

The acoustic travel guitar has the same headless design and clever proprietary In-Body Tuning System™ as the Electric Ultra-Light. There is a Tune-o-Matic style adjustable bridge, and now we see a few differences over the electric version of this guitar. The Ultra-Light 6 String Acoustic-Electric Guitar uses a Piezo pickup instead of humbuckers.

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The guitar we’re reviewing here is finished in an attractive vintage red satin finish. There are three other colors available; antique brown, maple, and black gloss. This compares to the electric non-acoustic version, which has a choice of seven colors.

Finally, the guitar 2lbs and 15ozs, and has a total length of 28” with a body thickness of no more than 2”.

The company claims this one to be 31% shorter and 43% lighter than a ‘typical’ acoustic guitar. Yet again another bad day at the office for some marketer who is unable to grasp the ludicrousness of there being such a thing as a ‘typical’ acoustic guitar. 100% of statistics we’ve recently encountered from marketeers have been nonsense.

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The piezo pickup delivers some crisp and clear tones. However, since there is no sound hole, and this is a solid bodied guitar, it lacks resonance and projection. What’s more, as increasing levels of gain are dialed in, it begins to sound more and more like an electric guitar.

Like the electric version, this guitar has a smooth fretboard and fret ends with a nice action straight out of the box. So far, so good as far as playability is concerned. However, we have the same moans and niggles as we did with its electric counterpart.

Firstly, there is the lack of tone controls and volume controls on the body of the guitar. Secondly, the balance of the guitar’s weight keeps forcing the neck downwards whilst playing. Finally, the lap rest slips and moves around.

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Next up on our best travel electric guitars is the Traveler Guitar Speedster, which is larger than a lot of the other guitars we’ve reviewed. It is, however still lightweight and small. It weighs 4.7lbs, has a total length of 28”, it’s 7.5” wide (with the detachable armrest removed) and is 2” thick at its widest point. It has a full-scale length of 24 3/4″.

The guitar is made from American hard maple and is finished in candy apple metallic red. The neck is

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