Joyce Cooling's Travel Guitar

[bhr]

Attached are two pictures of Joyce Cooling with a travel guitar she had made by Rich Hoeg, and an article where she talks about it and her other gear. I'm not interested in a travel guitar, but I really like the look of this guitar. Have any of you seen any production guitars similar to this? Almost everything I can find in a "frame" or "skeletal" guitar is shaped like an acoustic guitar, a Les Paul style, or something exotic or bizarre. I think the strat shape of this guitar in a frame-like format is very attractive.

 

[GuitarStv]

Re: Joyce Cooling's Travel Guitar

How handy are you with a router?

 

[ehdwuld]

Re: Joyce Cooling's Travel Guitar

I have seen 3D printed ones tha put that to shame

 

[Mincer]

Re: Joyce Cooling's Travel Guitar

I remember Musician's Friend hawking an aluminum bodied guitar with a similar design about 20 years ago. Check out this and this.

 

[bhr]

Re: Joyce Cooling's Travel Guitar

I remember Musician's Friend hawking an aluminum bodied guitar with a similar design about 20 years ago. Check out this and this.

Those Abel Axe guitars look pretty cool. Unfortunately, I guess that they were only able to sell about 200 of them says something about the demand for that type of look.

 

[ICTGoober]

Re: Joyce Cooling's Travel Guitar

Yamaha's Silent Guitars are not equipped with solidbody type pickups, but they work well as is, and can be modified....

 

[Mincer]

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Those Silent Guitars are cool instruments. A student of mine has both the nylon and steel string versions.

 

[ICTGoober]

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I have the steel string version, and want to get the nylon version, too.

 

[Butch Snyder]

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Those Silent Guitars are cool instruments. A student of mine has both the nylon and steel string versions.

Lee Ritenour uses the nylon string version all the time.

 

[rammer69]

Re: Joyce Cooling's Travel Guitar

cool.

 

[FuseG4]

Re: Joyce Cooling's Travel Guitar

A Les Paul like that would be interesting
Les Paul 2021 with Post Modern weight relief, inspired by when Henry snuck into the factory one night, and in a fit of misplaced anger and screaming how he would "finish this weight relief thing for good". He "weight relieved" several huge holes clear through the body in historic-bound Les Paul bodies. What Mad Henry thought was ruined inventory became the next inspiration for Gibson luthiers.

 

[ehdwuld]

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[GuitarStv]

Re: Joyce Cooling's Travel Guitar

Man, it's annoying enough trying to keep dust off a guitar without a billion spots you can't reach . . .

 

[FuseG4]

Re: Joyce Cooling's Travel Guitar

Once it's weathered in and the creeping vines we planted start weaving through it I think we'll have a really nice guitar for the garden

 

[Mincer]

Re: Joyce Cooling's Travel Guitar

I think that is actually pretty cool, unless you are playing outside on a hot day.