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Opinions on Traveler Guitar? Or Traveler bass guitar? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by BlindFrog@lemmy.world to c/guitars@lemmy.world

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Anyone here tried them, have a strong opinion about them maybe? Did you keep yours or sell it off?

I'm mostly curious about other people's experience with the long term quality.

I already have a ibanez mikro bass I've been learning on for a few months, and I plan to put flatwounds on it in. I'm looking at getting a second cheap af bass just to have one for different style songs. I'm considering picking up one (bass version) off fb marketplace.

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[–] viral.vegabond@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

They seem like excellent guitars. I have been eyeballing one for some time and the model I was looking at was the acoustic one in the shape of a gibson les paul body. Beautifully designed in my opinion: https://www.travelerguitar.com/cdn/shop/files/MK3NMHSfront_d13e4735-fc75-4446-af4b-e63e34d080e0.jpg?v=1725478770&width=900

Something that I noticed about (that same model) that was on display at the guitar store, however, is that there was a prominent amount of wear/scratching around the bottom hole for the tuner knobs. I'm not sure if this would be an issue for every owner, but it certainly did make that demo look less attractive. Maybe there is some type of protection that could be added to the guitar (scratch plate/custom pick guard)?

As entropicdrift mentioned already, the Steinberger spirit also looks like an excellent option. They seem to be just a little more expensive, though not by much.