KLOS Travel Guitar, Durable Carbon Fiber Acoustic Guitar - Black with Gig Bag, Strap, Capo and more

This guitar has a full-sized fret board, stays in tune, plays great, with a diminutive body (3/4 size) that is plenty loud, and can be broken down for carry-on luggage compatibility. The most important part of my approximately 3 weeks with this guitar is that, after some adjustment, I found myself drawn to playing it all the time, with old songs that I didn't even think I knew kind of just coming out as I played. Now for some details:I find this guitar to be fun to play, and as best I can tell it is because it is unexpectedly loud and keeps in tune, the net effect being that it is relatively easy to get a lot of good sound out of it, almost like when you go from acoustic to electric and suddenly it is not too hard to get a lot out. Regardless, I am continually drawn to it.Some realities: When I first put it together it buzzed. I was almost done, but I know I can play a little hard, and mine is a hybrid, so I watched the Klos video on working the truss rod. Watch this. I wanted my guitar to work perfectly right out of the box, but the vid was so rational and logical that I just went and turned the rod until the buzz was gone, as instructed. Then back to playing all the time. The body is smaller and you can hear a small-body sound, especially when banging away, but that is what I would expect from a small body. Some people might find the neck a trifle bit narrow, but again, hey, it is a travel guitar. I should mention I emailed Klos about the buzz and I am pretty sure they never answered me. (Update: but when I called (to claim my shirt) a cool dude named "Niko" answered right away). The neck is held on by 4 bolts - very simple and easy to work. However, the detuning and retuning process makes me not want to break this down and put together again frequently, which is fine by me because I just need to do it once to get across the pond. Regarding the saddle, the wedgy part goes on the higher strings - I did not find this on any of the literature and noticed even a guitar store selling this online had it backwards. (I Googled the issue to get the answer) (Update: apparently this is covered in their video).I picked this guitar because it is both a real guitar - and even more so I see now that I have it - AND because I wanted to just snake in under RyanAir's carry-on limitations, which are 22" long. I wrote this first installment review so I could get a free Klos shirt, but I intend to return within the year and report whether I was actually able to get this thing into a carry-on with all my other stuff, which will be a challenge, but a challenge that I am for some weird reason really looking forward to. One guy said to store socks and underwear inside the guitar because it is indestructible. The dream: to be planted in a nice AirBnB somewhere with this gem of a guitar - what a concept.FIRST UPDATE - ABOUT A WEEK LATER - They answered their phone when I called, and were cool. Also, forgot to say that the gig bag system has like 4 configurations, extremely well-geeked-out, and is also great quality. They even provided a rain cover. The strap works perfectly for me, BTW, even though I am not really a strap guy. Apparently they have a vid covering all assembly, including the orientation of the saddle, but I missed the QR code and tend to read and not watch, truss rod vid notwithstanding. I traveled with my Martin Backpacker a couple times and checking it through always made me nervous, so this being carry-on friendly and mega-ding-resistant is way mind-settling.SECOND UPDATE - A FEW MONTHS LATER - Totally traveled carry-on for U.S. domestic flight - no issues; was great. Flew a couple hours domestic for Thanksgiving and decided to test it out - used the travel bag as my carry-on and took an 18 litre backpack as my personal item. Did not go back and read instructions (because I had read them before!) and just attacked - remembered to use the little capo to keep the nut in place before de-tuning. Used a peg-crank I had purchased before for this purpose to keep the process swift. Cranked it down, used the TSA-compliant little screwdriver to remove the bolts. Packed the thing up in the carry-case. Did not shove my spare underwear in the sound-hole. That would have been too weird, though possibly more efficient. Re-assembly later also was easily under 10 minutes and no problem, using tuner on my phone. Jammed for 3 days with my family. Totally awesome. Still sounds nice and bright, stays tuned, and makes you feel clever. I stuck my shower-flip-flops and coral-walker shoes (camp shoes) in the neck part of the bag and bent it down over the back and tied it against the main bag using parachord. The travel bag is way way cool, with all kinds of stuff thought out. But the neck part still seems like it could use some more uber-design-engineering to be useful or retractable when not holding the neck of the guitar. I made it work for me, but I thought I would mention this so that Klos might be inspired if they read this, and the rest of you will be more likely to believe that I am not a paid AI cyber-bot that is programmed to really like this guitar. The fact is, I really like this guitar, and have again confirmed that family does too. I should mention that mine has the wood neck and looks great. So, no RyanAir yet, but this test run in 'Merica worked great. For RyanAir I believe I will have to forego the cool travel bag in order to fit, but I am cool with that. Just so the guit-box stays with me. No Euro-flights scheduled yet, but the future beckons. Attitude is everything.

The media could not be loaded. First, The Bad:It was tricky getting the guitar out of the case with the neck connected to the body with the strings. Not difficult, per se, but it took a minute fiddling with the zippers to figure it out. Once it was out, the 1st string (high E) was unwound from the tuning peg and kinked towards the middle of the string (their bad, I'm sure, and not my extraction difficulties with the gig bag), BUT, I was able to restring it, and the kink disappeared with proper tension. Surprisingly, it has held tune pretty well that way. That's all the bad I have. Anything else I could say against the guitar would all be relative to a full-sized wooden guitar, and that is not a fair comparison, since this is designed for travel, camping, etc., and at that, it shines, which leads us toThe Good:This thing is tiny, light, sturdy, pretty easy to assemble, holds tune, is very playable (the action is pretty low, I wasn't getting any buzzing on the neck, it holds tune well, and the harmonics are good), and the tone is loud and acceptably pleasant.For the money, you could get a better sounding wooden guitar, but if you are looking at this instrument, you probably already have a better sounding wooden guitar that you are hesitant to take camping or on an airplane with you. I wish I could compare it to other travel guitars, but this is the only one I have ever played, so I can't say how it stacks up with other travel guitars or other carbon fiber/composite guitars. I made the decision to buy it based on a few "Best Carbon Fiber Guitars" and "Best Travel Guitars" list reviews from a Google search and three YouTube reviews I saw, one from Darrel Braun, one from Acoustic Life, and one from some random buy playing it at a campsite, recorded on his phone from about 15 feet away. I do not feel misled by any of those videos; this is a fine little guitar that I feel comfortable taking with me on an adventure.TL;DR: It's a good little travel guitar, and I would recommend it

I got this little travel guitar because I wanted a smaller and lighter yet durable option for camping, hiking and bikepacking. In the last six months, I’ve taken it to the beach, out on the river and on several camping trips. One day, the temps reached 100 degrees; on another night, they dipped to 40 degrees. Neither extreme was an issue....Well, not to the guitar. Assembly was a breeze. I keep it assembled because I don’t want an additional step between setting up camp and playing. The provided gig bag is thick, protective and perfect for car camping; however, I bought a thin, cheap, 3/4-size guitar bag to cut down on size and weight then strap it to my bicycle or back pack. The smaller bouts provide a different resting point for my arm than what I am used to, but it is worth it for the size and weight benefits. The included screw-type capo was different than the spring-loaded capo pictured. It appears to be smaller, more compact and it works great; I prefer this screw type capo for maintaining a small pack size even while attached to the guitar. The guitar is well made, strong and light. It sounds great for its size and stays in tune. For me, it checks all the boxes for my camping guitar. Overall, I am very pleased with this guitar. I can spend time outdoorsing without leaving my music behind.