A few weeks ago I bought a Blackstar travel guitar. I wanted something I could pack with the familiy luggage without claiming half the car.

It IS very small. However, the fretboard is big enough that even someone like me, used to big guitars and Fender fretboards, can adapt. After spending some hours with it I feel comfortable.

It does, however, have a neck drop from the relationship between the normal sized fretboard and the small body.

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"The sound of the thing?" you ask. Truth to tell, I've spent most of my time with it as a practice guitar in a family - so: unamplified. However, I did plug it in a few times. As you can see, it has single humbucker in the bridge position. It can do a coil split and get a little sharper. I'm not a great sound designer, but to my ears it sounds fine. I haven't found a way to do a proper twang on it, but aside from that it sounds good and carries both its own little amp and my bigger one nicely.