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Steel String Backpacker Guitar w/ Gig Bag

SKU: # 45088   |   Model: # GBPC   |    Product Reviews5 Reviews  Write a Review

Steel String Backpacker Guitar w/ Gig Bag

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Steel String Backpacker Guitar w/ Gig Bag
Steel String Backpacker Guitar w/ Gig Bag
Your Price: $449.00 CDN
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The sky's the limit for portability! The steel-string Backpacker travel guitar is lightweight, durable, easy to play (and tune) and is shaped to fit into the smallest places. Constructed of solid tonewoods.

Specifications:
• Top Material: Spruce
• Bracing Pattern: Backpacker
• Brace Shape: Non-Scalloped
• Brace Material: Spruce
• Brace Size: 5/16"
• Back Material: Tonewoods
• Side Material: Tonewoods
• Neck Material: Select Hardwood
• Neck Shape: Backpacker
• Neck Taper: Backpacker Taper
• Plek: No
• Nut Material: White Corian
• Headstock Shape: Solid
• Headplate Logo Style: Script Overlay
• Fingerboard Material: FSC Certified Richlite
• Scale Length: 24"
• Neck Joins Body At: 15th Fret
• Number of Frets Total: 15
• Fingerboard Width at Nut: 1 11/16''
• Fingerboard Width at 12th Fret: 2 1/8''
• Fingerboard Inlay Material: White Plastic
• Fingerboard Inlay Style: 1 at 5th & 2 at 12th
• Side Dots: White
• Back and Side Finish: Hand Rubbed
• Finish Top: Hand Rubbed
• Top Colour: Clear
• Finish Neck: Hand Rubbed
• Bridge Material: FSC Certified Richlite
• Bridge Style: Backpacker Steel String
• Bridge String Spacing: 2.187''
• Saddle: Compensated White Tusq
• Saddle Radius: 16"
• Tuning Machines: Chrome Enclosed Gear
• Recommended Strings: Acoustic 80/20 Bronze Extra Light (M170)
• Knob: Small
• Bridge Pin Material: White Plastic
• Bridge Pin Dots: Black Plastic
• Case: Soft Gig Bag
• Label: Paper Label

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Great for Bigger Chests 8 of 8 customers found this review helpful
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Closest Store   Calgary Royal Vista, Alberta
I LOVE this little thing. It's quiet but I have a larger chest size (you know, the Girls) and I can actually fit this under in a comfortable against the body position. All other guitar shapes were almost impossible to play comfortably. I'm actually rather terrified they will stop making these... lol. I HATE the bag. It does nothing to protect the instrument. I would spend good money on a sturdier one if they would make one.
Posted by Suzanne on Feb 18, 2022
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Owned it 6 yrs. now 6 of 6 customers found this review helpful
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Closest Store   Oshawa, Ontario
This guitar has been halfway around the world with me, if you’re buying it for travel, I love it. I don’t leave home without it. Ergonomically it sucks big time, read the other review about that, I have exactly the same problems. Especially the way the neck turns on you... but you get used to it. You can’t play it without the strap, even if you are sitting. Actually in the sitting position is when the neck turns upward the worst.
The quality is great, the neck is exactly as it was new, the tuners are well made. I got this for travelling on planes and trains, so if you are not doing that there are a lot of better options for a ‘campfire’ guitar in this price range. However, I have this great memory of standing on the side of a Mayan pyramid with a dozen other tourists belting out Tragically Hip tunes...PRICELESS! It would not have happened without this little beauty.
Posted by Keith on Feb 2, 2022
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Fun unique portable 11 of 11 customers found this review helpful
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Closest Store   Pickering, Ontario
Worth it at Store Special price.no truss rod.filed saddle down.final set up is as good as my best Dreadnought . With optimal setup the true sound of instrument is better realized . That being said it is not a full size guitar so don't review as such. plays well open or capo  up to 7th Fret. Wt of neck and lack of traditional body means a strap is a must. I put a piezo pick up in it with end pin jack strap.sounds good.it stays in tune.bag is padded and adequate. Easy to curl up in  a chair to play over larger guitars.
Posted by Jay on May 14, 2019
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I returned mine after a week 4 of 6 customers found this review helpful
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Closest Store   Burlington, Ontario
I bought this with every intent to play on road trips but it just had a dead sound. I can see how some might like it...it just wasn't for me.
Posted by Adam on Feb 8, 2019
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Cute and well made but unergonomic 26 of 26 customers found this review helpful
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Closest Store   Waterloo, Ontario
I bought my backpacker a few months ago for taking with me on air travel. Its small dimensions make it very portable, and it sounds fully decent for what it is (don't expect boomy bass but that's not what it's meant for). It's well finished, and generally of good quality. The action on upper frets is rather high, and the neck is non-adjustable, but that's just how these are made. However, after having used it for a few months, I've found it rather awkward to play. The sense of awkwardness only increased after using it at home for a while compared to when I first tried it in store. The strap is essentially mandatory, and it's not really playable without the strap, even when sitting down, but that's alright because it comes with a strap. However, there are two bigger ergonomic issues beside the need for a strap. The first issue is that the very neck heavy design means you have to hold the guitar in a rather contorted manner when playing the upper frets to prevent the neck from diving down. The high action on upper frets doesn't help either. The second bigger issue is that the natural resting position for your strumming arm causes the guitar to rotate and have the fretboard face up, which becomes very awkward for your fretting hand unless you apply a reverse torque on the guitar by the neck, or make sure you don't rest your strumming on the guitar body. Altogether, even through I like the compact dimensions, build quality, and sound, the terrible ergonomics of this guitar make me avoid playing it and I'm contemplating selling it.
Posted by Sultan Khan on May 11, 2018
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