Carbon fiber travel guitar

[C C]

I finally got a small travel (acoustic) guitar that could withstand a variety of abuses. Especially resistant to extreme heat, and dry air, without warping or exploding like wooden acoustic guitars. 

Don't expect the sound of a dreadnought. It's purely for practice, tossing in the back seat, or toting on your back, and not taking up space on journeys to the middle of nowhere. However, I'm a little amazed at how its low notes actually sound low instead of cut off in a teeny way. (But I had little experience with small guitars, beforehand.) `

Most of these reviewers seem to feel the sound quality is worse than I do, but then I'm a finger style player and maybe that results in a better tone than using a pick on it (depending).

I don't know how he got cruddy strings. Mine already came with D'Addario strings on it. (He apparently had to buy/replace them.) The frets were fine, too -- didn't have to file one or two down. Same with the bone saddle -- already ground to the right height. No truss rod adjustments needed for the neck.

But, of course, the fact that he received one that needed work on it means anything could happen -- conditional on where it's bought. A normal acoustic guitar almost always requires adjustments to made it playable or non-stressful to your fingers. Unless you buy from a retailer or luthier that takes care of such beforehand, for an extra fee. But some of the promotions for this unusual one suggested it came playable as is, which had a lot to do with me choosing it.

I did get the version with built-in electronics (the one without costs circa $180). But my acoustic evaluations above aren't based on those effect enhancements. Comes in multiple colors (I also got black because undesired "smudges" and other "stuff" get obscured better.)

Go to the 17-minute mark to hear his final opinion about it, and a few minutes before that to hear how it plays (but he uses its electronic effects).

Amazon carbon fiber guitar for under $300 ... https://youtu.be/vDUViNXo7kM

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/vDUViNXo7kM

[geordief]

I got a Fender Paramount 000 size guitar 2 years ago(530 eu)

It is a good 2 or 3 times lighter than my 1980 Ibanez dreadnought -quite a shock.

As with yours most people don't like it (or Fender acoustics in general) as the sound is unimpressive.

After a few months of enjoying the greater playability I went back to my old high action ,unreparable guitar as it is more enjoyable (and unsellable)

I have put the Fender up for sale and hope to trade it for a normal size guitar (I like to have 2 guitars for different tunings)

[confused2]

I like to have 2 guitars for different tunings

Genius!

[C C]

I got a Fender Paramount 000 size guitar 2 years ago(530 eu)

It is a good 2 or 3 times lighter than my 1980 Ibanez dreadnought -quite a shock.

As with yours most people don't like it (or Fender acoustics in general) as the sound is unimpressive.

After a few months of enjoying the greater playability I went back to my old high action ,unreparable guitar as it is more enjoyable (and unsellable)

I have put the Fender up for sale and hope to trade it for a normal size guitar

Initially, I was looking for a parlor guitar, supposedly even smaller than 00 size. But I disliked the way their necks meet the body at the 12-fret (like a standard classical guitar).

To tell the truth, this ridiculously slim one actually sounds better than one of my less valued dreadnoughts, that seems to have acquired some loose bracing. (The latter has too much of a deep boom or "space" to it, so that it significantly overpowers the treble range.)

Certainly the travel guitar isn't louder -- just more balanced in terms of overall tonal quality than the big guitar that's gone rogue.

Given the small size of it, I don't know how such is even possible. The carbon fiber? The amplifying, molded arched back? The resonant bass porthole on top? Whatever it is, it's creeping me out a bit.

Again, it may be that my expectations for the sound of a tiny guitar were so much poorer than what this one presents, that it just seems like a fringe sighting (ghost or UFO).

(I like to have 2 guitars for different tunings)

One of these days, they'll introduce a reasonably priced, all digital or AI guitar that actually has quality, synthesized acoustic sound. That can automatically switch to any pre-programmed tuning we want with the press of a selector button. The sensor strings on it won't really be tightened to any notes -- they'll just send information to the processor to tell it what frets we're pressing and what strings we're plucking, bending, hammering, pulling, sliding, etc.

That's when new, traditional wooden guitars will disappear on the retail shelves and the rain forests will "be saved". (As if they don't already have commercial tree farms growing rare and prized timber/woods for harvesting.)

[geordief]

I got a Fender Paramount 000 size guitar 2 years ago(530 eu)

It is a good 2 or 3 times lighter than my 1980 Ibanez dreadnought -quite a shock.

As with yours most people don't like it  (or Fender acoustics in general) as the sound is unimpressive.

After a few months of enjoying the greater playability  I went back to my old high action ,unreparable  guitar  as it is more enjoyable (and unsellable)

I have put the Fender up for sale and hope to trade it  for  a normal size guitar

Initially, I was looking for a parlor guitar, supposedly even smaller than 00 size. But I disliked the way their necks meet the body at the 12-fret (like a standard classical guitar).

To tell the truth, this ridiculously slim one actually sounds better than one of my less valued dreadnoughts, that seems to have acquired some loose bracing. (The latter has too much of a deep boom or "space" to it, so that it significantly overpowers the treble range.)

Certainly the travel guitar isn't louder -- just more balanced in terms of overall tonal quality than the big guitar that's gone rogue.   

Given the small size of it, I don't know how such is even possible. The carbon fiber? The amplifying, molded arched back? The resonant bass porthole on top? Whatever it is, it's creeping me out a bit.

Again, it may be that my expectations for the sound of a tiny guitar were so much poorer than what this one presents, that it just seems like a fringe sighting (ghost or UFO).

(I like to have 2 guitars for different tunings)

One of these days, they'll introduce a reasonably priced, all digital or AI guitar that actually has quality, synthesized acoustic sound. That can automatically switch to any pre-programmed tuning we want with the press of a selector button. The sensor strings on it won't really be tightened to any notes -- they'll just send information to the processor to tell it what frets we're pressing and what strings we're plucking, bending, hammering, pulling, sliding, etc.

That's when new, traditional wooden guitars will disappear on the retail shelves and the rain forests will "be saved". (As if they don't already have commercial tree farms growing rare and prized timber/woods for harvesting.)

Do you think AI and sophisticated visual sensors and shape recognition could turn air guitarists (well with any instrument ,of course) into  real musicians?

Bad musicians?

Real musicians can also be air musicians in their spare  time,maybe.

I saw something today about a new   3d printer coping with 500 pounds  of material  a time.

Not that the size is important but  I wonder is there any future in that for instrument  manufacturing?

Once the first one was made  and was any good the follow ups would be very cheap and wouldn't  need to be identical.

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I like to have 2 guitars for different tunings

Genius!

I note that accomplished guitarists seem to run up huge collections of guitars.Mark Knopfler just auctioned most of his off.

[confused2]

My wife is a violin player. Her violin has wolf notes (wolf tones - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_tone ). It makes the instrument alive. I've only been there on one occasion .. we call it catching fire .. when the soloist, the instrument, the orchestra, the music and the audience all resonate as one. Maybe just a bowed instrument thing.