FS: Travel Guitar Project

[teej]

This is the neck and body to a travel-sized guitar I tried to build, modeled after Traveler Guitars. It was commissioned by a friend who lost interest in it. It's experimental at this point, but maybe someone can finish where I left off. Also included is a rosewood control knob. Truss rod is functional. Needs refinishing. VERY well balanced.

Asking $80, shipped.


It's the one on the right. The one on the left is a matching travel bass (not for sale).

More photos here: http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ca/JID/Minuet/

[praisegig]

PM'd

[teej]

Scale = 25.5"
Body = 10.5" wide, 13" long, 1.5" thick
Width @ Nut = 1.75"
Poplar body
Maple neck with rosewood fingerboard
A piezo pickup will fit under the saddle

The nut is included, by the way, as are 6 string ferrules that held the string ends in the headstock, 9V battery box, custom pickguard, and stereo jack with football jack plate.

Basically, what you see is what you get. I never got around to making a control cavity plate or ordering the neck mounting ferrules.

There's a thread I started for these two guys a while back. It might also give some information I'm forgetting here.

Headstock:


Back (full):


Back (close):


Fingerboard:


Pickguard (I've finished it since this photo):
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[superbassman2000]

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how much would it cost to have you finish it and send it to me?

[teej]

There's a design flaw that has kept me from finishing both the travel guitar and bass. The way it is now, the strings on both instruments break around the body at too sharp of an angle and snap every time, every string (except the E on the bass). It can be fixed, though. I believe I came up with a solution last night at work. It won't be as aesthetically pleasing as it is now, but I do believe it will work.

I'll think about it. If I could just keep those !#$% strings from breaking, it would be a really a nice instrument -- awesome balance, neck fits my hand like a glove, VERY portable. I took the bass to San Francisco in '08 in a cheap gig bag -- they had to gate check it on one flight and allowed me to put it in the overhead storage bin on another. Arrived without a scratch. The current pickup is a 3-watt on-board amp from Guitar Fetish. It sounds tinny, but it works, thus proving the concept.

I'm getting all excited about this now.

I'll hold it for you and see if I can't make it work.

[praisegig]

Thanks for the info Teej. The scale length wouldn't be short enough for my project idea, as I already have a piccolo bass of the same scale. Thanks again and hope you find a buyer.