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Travel / No. RG-26-011

Trailhead T-1

$2,450

A 23.5 inch scale travel guitar in sapele. Solid wood throughout, built to be thrown in a truck.

Body shape
Travel
Soundboard
Sitka Spruce
Back & sides
Sapele
Bracing
A-frame V
Scale length
23.5″
Nut width
1.6875″
Lower bout
13″
Body depth
3.75″
Finish
Satin nitrocellulose
Serial
RG-26-011
Build time
11 weeks
Annual run
6 per year
Timber cured in our own loft for four years or more, documented on the build sheet.
Fifty-point setup and a two-week approval window from the day it reaches you.
Ships in a fitted arched case, humidity-conditioned, insured door to door.
SKU: RT-TRAILHEADT1 Category:

Description

Small guitars are usually a compromise on tone or a compromise on construction. This one is neither: solid Sitka top, solid sapele back and sides, hide glue, a proper dovetail neck joint and a bone nut. It is simply smaller.

The 23.5 inch scale means a light set pulls only about 118 pounds, so the top can be thinned and the bracing lightened without risking it. Tune it to concert pitch or put mediums on and drop to D — it will take either.

Measured build sheet

Every figure below was taken off this instrument on the bench, not copied from a model specification.

Body shapeTravel
SoundboardSitka Spruce
Back & sidesSapele
BracingA-frame V
Scale length23.5″
Nut width1.6875″
Lower bout13″
Body depth3.75″
FinishSatin nitrocellulose
SerialRG-26-011
Build time11 weeks
Annual run6 per year