Grab your Guitar and Hit the Road

Best Travel Guitars has always been about guitars but it's also very much about travel.  That's the whole point, finding a guitar to fit your traveling lifestyle.  Now some of you are day trippers and some of you are tourist.  But who here is a trail blazer, a vagabond, a world traveler or a travel writer?  That's the ranks Gear Up and Play is assigning it's writing staff and you could join the ranks.  If you have ever wanted to create a travel blog then this is the time to grab your guitar and hit the road.

Gear Up and Play is a community driven Travel Blog which means you won't be carrying the load all by yourself.  It's simple shared platform offers travelers and outdoor adventure seekers the opportunity to share their experiences in a shared revenue setting.  The community provides a social networking atmosphere where travelers can interact and follow other members in a fashion similar to twitter.  Each member has a unique profile where they can share information about themselves, submit articles, travelogues, photos, and even bookmark links to interesting yet relevant content around the web with digg style member voting.

For us wana-be vagabond travelers that enjoy writing this is a good opportunity.  If you've ever tried to create a travel blog then you know how hard it can be if you want it to be successful.  I mean everything from setting it up, providing fresh content regularly and engaging an audience.  It's nice to be backed by a community effort.  The best part is they share 100% Google adsense revenue on our article submissions so you can't beat that.

I suggest anyone interested to go over to Gear Up and Play and create a account.  Next Step:  Pack your bags, get a notebook computer, grab your guitar and hit the road.

OK, it might be a little premature for that.  I don't mean to sound like this can replace your day job as I myself have been running adsense ads on this site and some others for a time now and I don't make near enough.  I do make a small amount that I save each month and over the course of a year it does amount into something I call a travel fund.

Bottom Line:  If you've ever thought about creating a travel blog this is a great opportunity.  Give it a try, see if it's something that keeps your interest.  The hardest part of a travel blog is continually providing fresh content and with multiple sources of content the commitment is null.

-thanks for listening to this nights rant around the campfire, hope to see you over at Gear Up and Play fueling the effort along side me to create a travel blog of great community proportions.

Rambler Travel Electric Guitar Review

Want to jam when you get there?  Practice in the hotel?  Jump on stage and play?  Take a Rambler™ Travel Electric Guitar - a full scale professional instrument that breaks down to fit in a briefcase or computer bag. This is a great sounding, great playing instrument perfected for the traveling musician.  The Rambler™ offers unsurpassed quality, playability and resonance.

The Rambler™ travel guitar features locking tuners located on the bottom of the guitar.  The strings are loaded from the top of the neck through the patented StringKeeper™.  Dual humbucking pickups switchable from neck to bridge or both provide a fat full sound and excellent tone. Separate tone and volume controls provide a wide range of equalization.  Intonation and string action is set with a fully adjustable Tuneomatic bridge.  The adjustable nut, a unique feature of the Rambler™, allows string action to also be adjusted at the top of the neck.

Weighing less than five pounds and with an overall length of about 30”, the Rambler™ is a very portable guitar even when assembled.  Scale length is 24-1/2” (Gibson scale) with 20-21 frets. Many travelers prefer to take the guitar apart and place the separated neck and body in their carry on luggage.  To take the guitar apart, loosen a single thumbwheel on the top of the neck and remove the StringKeeper™.  Wrap the strings around the body through the StringCatcher™, tucking the StringKeeper™ between the middle tuners.  Then take off the neck by loosening four thumbwheels.  Simply reverse the process to assemble the guitar.

While playing and sounding like a full size electric guitar, the Rambler™ has a sonic advantage due to the absence of a headstock.  The string energy normally wasted as the strings pass over the nut is channeled back into the neck, providing excellent resonance and sustain.  Neck relief is adjustable with the dual action truss rod, allowing more or less relief as desired.  The Rambler™ Classic has a solid Canadian Maple body, in either Tobacco or Cherry Sunburst.  The Classic comes with a specially designed and embroidered Strobel Guitars gig bag.

Strobel Guitars also offers a Rambler™ Custom Travel Guitar, with choice of tone woods, neck shape, fretboard, inlay and custom colors. Options include coil tapping, on board pre-amp, Piezo bridge, etc.  Strobel Guitars recently introduced the Rambler™ Custom Travel Electric Bass guitar, offering a 34” scale neck with the nut located at the third fret.  Overall length of the Rambler™ Bass is less than 35”.  Both the Rambler™ Custom Guitar and Bass are outfitted with high end Schaller electronics and components.

-Strobel Guitars This is a sweet looking guitar.  Check out their New Website for more information on the Rambler Classic, Custom and Bass models.

Rambler™ Travel Electric Guitar Features

• standard dual humbucking pickups
• separate tone and volume controls
• tuneOmatic bridge
• locking tuners
• custom thumbwheels
• available  in choice of Tobacco or Cherry Sunburst.