KLOS Travel Deluxe Carbon Fiber Acoustic Electric Guitar - Black | Lightweight & Durable | Includes Gig Bag, Strap, Capo | Perfect for Travel, Camping & Street Performances

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.