Traveling with a guitar

[JetFixxxer]

what is the best way to do this? I travel a lot and would like to travel with a Squire Bullet. Is it best to carry it on the aircraft? Get a case and check it in? Just looking for the best way to practice on the road. Sometimes I'm gone 3 days and sometimes I'm gone 10 days or more.

[Bengal]

Take the neck off and put it in your luggage or carry on bag. That's how I'd do it...

[thetroy]

I just take mine in a good gig bag and put it in the overhead compartment. Make sure you are one of the first people on the plane so there is room for you to put the guitar up there.

[rjohnstone]

Anvil flight case if I have to take a good one and an SKB case if I'm taking a "player".
I always check 'em.

[Hotrod]

I'm with Bengal. Take a bolt on and remove the neck. Re-assemble at destination and repeat. All it costs is a set of strings unless you just fold 'em over and stick some laundry in between.... That's how I do it anymore. That and a POD gets me over ;-)

[donf]

I travel all the time with a mod 6 or mod 4. I got a padded gig bag from MF and store it right in the overhead on a plane. No mess. Easy store and they fit nice up there...............

[fuel0707]

Depending on what you want the guitar for, maybe something like a Traveler Speedster would work for you. I travel a ton with my current job and the Speedster has been great for when I can't avoid the airlines. It fits either in an overhead bin and sometimes can even be stowed under a seat.

I used to fly around with a Squier Strat but for me, a full-size guitar is more of a headache. Plus, the Speedster has a full-scale neck (24.75") so the string tension feels normal which makes it a good practice tool. I wouldn't use it for its tone or in a regular band situation but for travel, it's a great little guitar.

[Norton]

I would get a headless guitar, something like the Hohners.

[Bengal65]

I just take mine in a good gig bag and put it in the overhead compartment. Make sure you are one of the first people on the plane so there is room for you to put the guitar up there.

This is what I do. I have a Stratocaster Junior I travel with. If using a gig bag in the overhead compartment with an expensive Jazz Guitar was good enough for Joe Pass, it's good enough for my cheapo Strat

[JetFixxxer]

It's pretty difficult to get on board first.. at this point.. Give me about a year I should have enough points The Speedster is close to 400 dollars and wouldn't want to chance screwing it up while traveling. I also have a cheap strat guitar that I was thinking about just cutting kind of like a hohner.

[fuel0707]

It's pretty difficult to get on board first.. at this point.. Give me about a year I should have enough points The Speedster is close to 400 dollars and wouldn't want to chance screwing it up while traveling.

Look around and you can probably score a Speedster for less than $400. I didn't pay that much for mine.

As for it getting screwed up, I've been flying around with mine for over 3 years and the worst thing that I've managed to do to it is slightly mar the finish on the bottom edge. Don't worry about screwing it up while traveling - it was designed to be used for exactly that purpose.

By the way, there is now a 1-HB model available with a Les Paul-shaped body called the Escape EG-1.

[åron]

The traveller guitars are great with light gauge strings. I found that if I put heavier strings on, it didn't hold tune very well.

[thetroy]

It's pretty difficult to get on board first.. at this point.. Give me about a year I should have enough points

I didn't mean literally first, just toward the front of the line of normal coach passengers. I also usually pick a seat toward the back of the plane since sometimes they are logical and have people sitting in the back get on first.

[sonicsamurai]

i know guys that have bought a seat for their guitar to go with them given the luggage restrictions in th UK

[JetFixxxer]

By the way, there is now a 1-HB model available with a Les Paul-shaped body called the Escape EG-1.

Thats the one I thought you were originally talking about.