The first "Full-Size" Hollow-Body

 Acoustic Travel Guitar. 

Designed to breakdown into your suitcase or backpack with a simple 4 screw process removing the neck from the body.

Fully adjustable truss rod in a Maple neck with a Rosewood fingerboard. Thinline body for easy packing with exceptional sound. No need to bring an amplifier on your travels.    

Vintage Keystone style American made Grover tuning machines, which are used by the top builders in the industry, keep the instrument in tune for extended periods of time. Tops and Backs are a High quality Northern California Birch wood laminate for superior strength to handle rugged traveling and provide a brilliant sound quality.

The finish is an environmentally friendly, water based, high performance polyurethane natural satin gloss. No spray on lacquers are used which are known to damage our environment.

 Guitar Dimensions:

Lower Body - 16" wide / Upper Body - 11" wide

Body Length - 20"

Body Thickness - 2"

Neck Length - 25 3/4"

String nut width - 1 11/16"

 

To view breakdown / assembly process check out Jim's video:

www.YOUTUBE.com/JLStravelguitars

 

 
Mike - California / "I love the sound of the guitar"

Joe - Pennsylvainia / "Wow Jim, plays great!"

Randy - Florida / "Nice work Jim, I'm taking it to Nashville with me"

Florian - The Netherlands / "Thanks Jim, great to travel with. Leaving for Brussels with it"

Steve - California / "I really like how easy it is to play, Thanks Jim"

Sabra - California / "I love the sound of the guitar"

 

I currently build these guitars in my shop in Northern California. My apprenticship was done at Fender Guitars USA in the late 1970's when they were located in Fullerton California. I started in the lumber room selecting the maple boards to be used in the neck assembly of the guitars and ended as a final quality assembly technition where all the processes come together to create the final instrument. Along the way were many stops in learning the process of the Fender guitars, including the special neck to body joint assembly that I use in the JLS models today.  

 

I stirve to keep "Quality" not quantity the main focus of the JLS guitar as well as keeping the price point available for "all" traveling musicians.