5 Best Travel Electric Guitar [Review 2021 & Customer Feedback]

Playing guitar is indeed a work of passion. And if you are a person who loves adventure and travels a lot, a little bit of music by your side can definitely add more flavor. Let’s review the best travel electric guitars 2021 and the updated customer feedback.

A pro, novice or a beginner to the electric guitar world, you would still love to plug in and play your best tunes no matter where you travel. Consider traveling with your best guitar in the collection? You may need to continue reading..

Why just not take any guitar?

A traveling experience can get a little harder on your guitar. Guitars that are not made compatible for traveling may be prone to easy damages. Guitar strings can be affected by humidity and heat as well. And those painful scratches and scuffs can also be easily avoided if you get a guitar, specifically made for travel.

The line up at a glance

We’ve done in-depth loads of researches through many various products and chosen 5 different models to compare. Have a look through all our pros and cons for each one to find your best travel electric guitars.

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Verdict

If you are a fan of blues or heavy genres such as rock and metal, this electric guitar could be your number one travel friend, but you will most likely need an amp as the model has no control over tone or volume. Updated Shadow acoustic piezo pickup is most probably the reason why it’s called an Acoustic-Electric.

The leg stands beneath give comfort and the guitar is extremely small having nothing extra to it. The lap rest is completely detachable allowing easy travel. This hybrid travel guitar fits in airline overhead bins due to its size and compact design making your travel absolutely stress-free.

Detail Reviews

This ultra light one-piece electric travel guitar has 22 frets, Full 24-3/4″ scale and comes in Maple color, Maple top materials & Eastern American Hard Maple back material. The guitar weighs not even three pounds and it’s only 28 inches long. Ebony fretboard material gives a very slick, fast playing quality to the guitar which many players favor. Since the tuners are inside the body and there is no need for a headstock. Some consider this to be more like a quieter guitar having such control over the volume and tone, so an amp may very much come in handy. 

Customers in general agree that this is a very high-quality product with a distinctive tone. The gig bag you get is definitely a plus and comes with a warranty limited to 3 years.

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Verdict

This one-piece beauty comes in a most revolutionized guitar shape. Hard Maple body material gives that visual appeal which complements the guitar design very much. While the detachable teardrop arm support solves the balancing problems, In-Body Tuning System eliminates the need for a headstock. The modern technology put into this design will let you feel the best playing experience just as you do with a regular size guitar. Due to the built-in headphones, you may enjoy your jam just about anywhere and anytime.

V2 Speedster fits in airline overhead bins and who wouldn’t like the trendy gig bag that comes with it. The price is something that can raise an eyebrow but if you travel for work quite often and an electric guitar is a part of your daily life, your every penny will be worth it.

Detail Reviews

This electric guitar comes in full 24 3/4″ scale and no reductions in neck size either. The headstock is removed as they use their patented design the Tune-O-Matic in-body tuning. Built-in headphone amp with 4 tones and aux-in for jamming with an external signal is definitely an asset. The dual-rail humbucker pickup produces smooth clean tones as well as the meaty distorted tones. 

The entire guitar is made of Easter American hard Maple wood which gives that elegant look to the guitar and makes the sound so bright. The guitar is so compact that you may struggle to balance while playing and handling, but the detachable arm support makes that problem a nill. This travel electric guitar basically weighs 4.75 lb and is 28” long. Requires two AAA batteries which comes with the guitar as a start. 6 strings with the scale length of 24.75” is just about the perfect for playing.

Fits perfectly in the airline overhead bin and a deluxe gig bag is Included.

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Verdict

Stewart electric guitar is designed in such a way that we can by all means enjoy a full scale/shaped guitar while we travel and for no extra hassle. One most impressive fact is the design itself. It’s a full-sized body and scale length guitar which is collapsable and comes with a storage. The speciality and best thing about this guitar is that it stays in tune after reassembly. The feel is almost the same as playing an original guitar. The sound is clear, detailed, and bright and you get plenty of options to amend and adjust to different tones. The playability of this guitar is beyond question. 

Only if you are not quite a fan of stow-away design you will re-think, also its price is not the biggest strength either, yet the quality is what exactly you will pay for.

Detail Reviews

By design, Stewart a classic is a full-sized Stratocaster and It has a complete 648mm scale with 22 frets that are medium-sized just like on a Strat. Comes with a complete removable bolt-on full neck (its patented) and storage system. Neck has 14” radius and is made from Maple. Standard set up includes Graphtech saddles, single coil pickups, and .010 strings (can use .009 or .010). Alderwood 18 x 12 x 3.5” size solid body and weighs 6.8 lb. Fretboard wood is Amaranth wood (quite similar to Rosewood) supporting flexible playing. 

25.5” scale length, can be manageable for small hands but ideal for medium to larger hands. Linear Tuning System with three Single Coils – Alnico Pole Magnet pickups, and five position switch, volume, tone control. Alnico 3 low output pick-ups support a brilliant clear sound.

This stow-away designed Stewards electric guitar is available in colors Black, Red, Electric Blue, Tobacco Sunburst, and Cherry Sunburst. The price may not fit everyone’s budget, but it does come with a 100% money-back guarantee which exhibits their confidence in this electric guitar. And well, the handy dandy back-pack which complies with the latest airline luggage restrictions is for sure a storage benefit that comes with it.

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Detail Reviews

Open Black Humbucker

• We will carefully test every item before shipment. The quality is guaranteed!
• Main concept of Anygig design is “Simple”, “Balanced design”, “Portable” and “Stable function”.
• We designed “Anygig” to keep general scale length. 25.5 inch scale length
• Feature : Anygig portable and durable.(Net weight:1.5kg)
• Anygig Strapholder is the part for comfortable playing.Special shape of strap holder keep holding guitar with strap during playing.

feels more like a stick to carry rather than a guitar, It contains the same in-body tuning system as other models Anygig has produced. smart detachable hand rest. It does not have any control over its body. As in, no volume or tone controls.

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Verdict

Travel version of Les Paul. There is no compromise on their sound compared to the original-sized Les Paul. Compact and lightweight, and comes with a gig bag. We do not see much positive feedback on the quality of the gig bag, however, the straps-on gig bag is an added advantage. 

The finish of Shredneck is a beauty and its performance is a beast, sounding every electric guitarist’s fairytale.

Detail Reviews

¾ scale length guitar made of Nato body with Cherry burst finish over Flamed maple photo top. LP Body Style with 2 Humbuckers and Master Volume/Master Tone Controls with 3 Way Toggle Switch. It has  22 Frets on a Rosewood fingerboard with Crown inlays, and a Maple Neck. Rosewood allows a great sound, and the performance could actually compete with regular electric guitars. Natural finish Maple neck humbucker, humbucker pickup configuration 3 way toggle switch master, volume control, master tone Control, and Chrome hardware. This weighs 5.5 pounds, and product dimensions are 33 x 9.5 x 1.75 inches.

This 6 strings electric guitar has a normal tuning system and can play all styles of music.

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Criteria used for evaluation

Size & Weight

It’s essential that your electric travel guitar is easy to carry as you may not know how far you will walk currying it on your shoulder, and also if that complies with the airlines policies if you will ever fly with it. Many options of travel guitars either don’t come with a full-sized body, or they are in fact full-sized but collapsible (smart idea), or they have their tuners in-built which allows the headstock to be removed. The design of the guitar makes a massive difference in weight itself and today we could find pretty jaw-dropping designs that are ideal for traveling. Most innovative designs come weighing just around 4 to 5 or 6 pounds only which are perfect traveler guitar.

Durability

The electric guitar you choose should always be an investment where you brush up your skills and make progress even when you are on the roads. A regular guitar could be too fragile and prone to easy damages and this is when travel guitars steal the spotlight.

Portability & Length

A travel guitar is originally created to tackle some of the drawbacks of taking the guitar out and about. Starting from the body style to how the whole guitar is holding up is supporting the travel process is portability overall. Does it come with a good quality protective case is another criteria that benefits a traveler. 

An electric travel guitar typically has fewer frets in comparison to regular guitars. Small fretboards are easy to pack and fit any overhead compartment. Or you could easily get a detachable neck alternatively.

Sound Quality

Your guitar could be a pride factor for some. If your travel guitar makes you miss your regular guitar, it’s time for you to look for a better one. Playability doesn’t usually get compromised in travel guitars but the sound quality may have small differences.

Volume

You could always enjoy your electric guitar in the airport, airplane, train, on the road, or in your hotel room doesn’t really matter what music you play and at what time of the day. The solution is a piece of cake. Our recommendation to you is to pick one with silent options such as built-in earphones or headphones. But in general, the volume of electric travel guitars could be less than the regular size guitars, in this case, an Amplifier can always be useful.

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