Travel guitar cases: the complete UK buying guide

If you're taking a guitar further than the local open mic, buy a hardshell or heavily padded case built for…

Phil Phil 23 Min Read

Best travel guitar for university students in the UK

If you’re moving into halls this September, the best travel guitar for university isn’t the best-sounding one, it’s the cheapest…

Phil Phil 11 Min Read

Best travel guitars: the complete UK buyer’s guide

Short answer: for most players the balanced picks in our travel guitars for acoustic and electric players roundup are the…

Phil Phil 50 Min Read

Yamaha APXT2 review: a 3/4-size guitar with real electronics

The Yamaha APXT2 is a 3/4-size version of the APX500, Yamaha's best-selling acoustic-electric, and that lineage is the whole point…

Phil Phil 11 Min Read

Journey Instruments Puddle Jumper review: how small is too small?

Most folding travel guitars ask you to give something up to get the fold. Journey Instruments’ Puddle Jumper PJ410N gives…

Phil Phil 14 Min Read

KLOS carbon fibre travel guitar review: is it worth it?

An honest, research-based review of the KLOS Carbon Fiber Travel Acoustic Guitar Kit: full-scale carbon fibre build, the complete kit,…

Phil Phil 14 Min Read

Best clip-on tuners for travel guitars

Travel guitars are awkward to tune by ear. Mini bodies put your ear closer to the strings than you’d like,…

Phil Phil 9 Min Read

Best string winders for travel guitars

A string winder doesn’t need a review this long, and it doesn’t deserve one either. It’s a plastic or metal…

Phil Phil 5 Min Read

Best guitar humidifiers for travel

A guitar that lives in one room adjusts to one climate. A travel guitar doesn’t get that luxury. It goes…

Phil Phil 11 Min Read

Can you take a guitar on a plane? UK rules explained

The honest answer is: it depends which airline you’re flying with. There’s no single UK rule for taking a guitar…

Phil Phil 20 Min Read