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Camp Guitars CAMP GUITARS Make the music travel with you BY TOM WATSON trumming a song on a bring our music into the backcountry. Backpacker by Martin guitar around the campfire Others soon followed with several The most familiar to backcountry can be as soothing to the sizes and designs marketed as travel guitar players, the Martin Backpacker ears as snacking on finger- guitars. Names such as Trailblazer is a rugged, licking good s’mores are and Rover clearly suggested these compactly built to the palate and just as guitars were specifically designed to travel guitar. Smuch a classic part of the camping be your traveling, music-producing It features an spirit. Only trouble is, even if you have sidekick. alluring, albeit the room, do you really want to expose Another approach used to pro- small body your delicate studio instrument to the mote the instrument as a travel guitar that joins the humidity, dust, water, temperature ex- was to make the entire guitar smaller 24-inch neck at tremes and downright roughness of than most full-sized models. In some a gentle taper. the camping environment? cases the guitar was downsized to Construction Luckily, the marketplace of travel 75 percent of the standard models. includes a guitars has exploded. And, while Called “three-quarter” or “baby” solid mahogany they shouldn’t be expected to fulfill guitars, most will fit into overhead neck, spruce the full-bodied sound of a seasoned bins on commercial airlines. These top with “tone - dreadnought or the rich tones of a are also popular first guitars parents wood” sides classical guitar, many of these travel often buy for their aspiring guitar- and back. The guitars will comfort the diehard guitar playing child. Technology has even 15-fret neck players who don’t want to leave home enabled one manufacturer to offer as varies in width without their instrument. close to a two-piece guitar as is possi- from about 11 For the longest time musicians ble. The Voyage-Air literally folds in 1 ⁄16 inches were enticed by Martin’s Backpacker two where the neck meets the body. (common for most smaller guitars) 1 with its weirdly shaped body no bigger Here is a sample of some of those at the nut to 2 ⁄8 inches at the body. than a cigar box. Designed for the camp-friendly guitars that can have It was a bit tight for my big-handed trail, it was a serious instrument you singing around the campfire on fingers to finesse chords on this for those of us who really wanted to your next outdoor adventure. narrow neck. campinglife.com August 2011 I 29 The Backpacker has adequate body that’s 1 inch deeper and it is also sitting before me with the name sound — after all, it is a very petite 3 inches wider than the regular Trail- Voyage-Air printed on it. It was too guitar. You don’t get a lot of bass out blazer. Both guitars come with a cus- light and too small. I unzipped the of these small guitars. Replacing the tom carrying case. MSRP: Trailblazer, backpack’s padded top and peered store strings with a lighter gauge $133; Deluxe, $250. down onto a guitar with its neck bent would probably soften the somewhat back at a 180-degree angle, right tinny banjo-like sound right off the Washburn Rover where it connects with the body. The shelf. The nylon string version is very While the Rover patented folding neck-hinge system mellow but pleasantly soft. The MSRP is technically one of on the Voyage-Air clearly gives it the is $309, but the best store price I found many three-quarter- uniqueness award — and a high was about $180. size guitars, it works ranking on the scale for travel guitars well at satisfying both as well. Little Martin the overhead bin re- The OM-04 model used to be This is basical- quirement and the called the Songwriter and features ly a smaller version compact size of a both a traditional OM-Style body of a standard-size “take it camping” shape or a traditional dreadnought guitar. It has a model. It’s 24 inches body shape; both guitars have a 25.5- much more robust long, with a fairly wide inch length with a solid spruce top sound, including 20-fret mahogany and mahogany back and sides. Both more bass, and neck and rosewood also feature a maho gany neck with although it has the fingerboard. The a 21-fret rosewood fingerboard and size of the three- Rover also features a bridge. The nut width on the OM is quarter models, it solid spruce top with 1.75 inches and the dreadnought sounds as good as a mahogany body. All sports a typical 1.68-inch width. or better than many this is protected in a One of the first things one does PHOTO: COURTESY C.F. MARTIN & CO. INC. CO. & MARTIN C.F. COURTESY PHOTO: full-sized guitars. padded cordura case when inspecting a new guitar is to If size were not an with straps, clips and extra pockets. examine the neck for warping and absolute factor, for The Rover’s sound is much fuller other signs of stress. I found none. about $100 (MSRP) than the smaller backpack varieties, This guitar’s neck swings at 180 de- more, and more than double the yet a bit more tinny than the full-bodied grees, on a hinge. Direct light pres- sound quality, I would get the Little bigger brothers on the market. How - sure, make a few turns of a thumb Martin Acoustic over the Backpacker. ever, it’s satisfying for its size. I tested bolt, retune the relaxed strings and Martin’s Little Acoustic in the same strum. Voila! Deep, rich, full-size gui- Johnson Trailblazer playing room and found both models tar tones come gushing out. The OM- Johnson makes to have a similar and adequately full 04 had nearly all the vibrant tones of the Trailblazer and it sound. Its MSRP is $225, but I found my classic, 35-year-old Martin D-28. shows the same quali- them advertised for much less. It’s built solid, incredibly light yet ty evident in its vast rugged for handling the elements. The array of full-size gui- Voyage-Air bombproof case lets it ride in the over- tars. Features include As I gazed upon it, head bin or strapped to your shoulders a rosewood fretboard I thought to myself as you head up into the backcountry. and bridge with 22 there’s no way a It isn’t cheap; the Voyage-Air OM-04 full-size nickel/silver nearly full-sized carries an MSRP of $599, but can be frets. The body top guitar can fit into found at most retailers for about $500. is spruce; the sides, the handsomely It’s a real guitar price for a real guitar. back and neck are crafted cordu- mahogany. Nut width ra backpack Taylor 11 3 is 1 ⁄16 inches on a 33 ⁄4- The Baby Taylor is 33.75 inches inch body. It is solidly long and features a Sitka spruce built with a distinctive top with a Sapele laminate back and travel-backpack shape. sides. The bridge and 19-fret fretboard The Trailblazer are made from ebony, while the neck had a surprisingly full is made of tropical American maho - sound for its compact gany. Like all Taylors, the sound was size. It was a little soft at the bass end excellent — rich and full bodied. Its but had decent tone when picked or MSRP is $398. strummed. The Deluxe model has a The very best way to select any 30 I August 2011 campinglife.com guitar is to play it several times, preferably in the sound room at various retailers. You’ll know when you find the one that’s right for you. Don’t expect a tiny cigar-box guitar to sound like a big-bodied Guild. However, do expect reasonable sound, produced with the same finger and strumming moves you make on your full-sized guitar — sounds that will be fantastic when accompanied by pleasing voices around a crackling campfire. d SOURCES C.F. MARTIN & CO INC. 610-759-2837, www.martinguitar.com. JOHNSON GUITARS www.johnsongtr.com. WASHBURN GUITARS 800-877-6863, www.washburn.com. VOYAGE-AIR GUITAR 800-371-6478, www.voyageairguitar.com. TAYLOR GUITARS 619-258-1207, www.taylorguitars.com. 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