Ministar travel guitars - its all in the neck

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Monday, 05 December 2011 18:42

Guitarists who travel a lot and want to take an instrument along for the ride - but don't want to risk damaging that prized vintage Strat - might find themselves turning in the direction of a scaled down stand-in. Such solutions come in many different shapes and sizes - from full size instruments with parts that collapse (like Daniel Mapp's Jetson travel guitar concept) to models with a shortened neck and small bodies (such as Martin's Backpacker) to strange-looking beasts with tuners positioned in a hollowed out section of the body (like the Traveler's Speedster). Bob Wiley's Ministar guitars, though, are essentially a bunch of necks with pickups. While there is a model with a shortened 19-inch scale neck, most of the odd-looking electric, acoustic and bass guitars sport full length necks and, says Wiley, play and sound just like the big brand models, but at a fraction of the price - and a fraction of the size... Continue Reading Ministar travel guitars - it's all in the neckSection: MusicTags: Acoustic, Bass guitar, Guitar, Tone, Travel Related Articles: The radical open chamber Sonic Wind guitar Flaxwood's new Hybrid guitar launched at Winter NAMM The Jetson travel guitar concept with folding neck Closing the gap with the Doubleneck guitar Review: Logitech's premium Wireless Guitar Controller for PS2 and PS3 Pimp my axe: the carbon fibre guitar