Crafted for the travelling musician who refuses to compromise on quality, the Carry-on travel guitar brings full-sized performance to a compact, portable design. This innovative instrument combines the expertise of UK-based Blackstar with the renowned craftsmanship of Gordon Smith Guitars UK's master luthiers, resulting in a travel guitar that plays and feels unlike any other in its category.
The guitar's construction utilises single-piece Okoume bodies and necks, ensuring the grain matches perfectly across the entire instrument. This approach allows the guitar to reverberate freely and evenly, as there are no glue joints to impede the natural resonance. Okoume is a bright, lightweight tonewood with a more open grain structure than mahogany, contributing to the instrument's exceptional tonal characteristics.
Professional features include a coil-splittable mini humbucker pickup for versatile sound options, string-through body design for enhanced sustain, and 1:14 ratio sealed tuners that provide excellent tuning stability. These specifications demonstrate that the Carry-on travel guitar maintains serious musical functionality despite its compact dimensions.
- 100W analogue amplifier with digital reverb and power reduction down to 5W
- Discrete, lightweight MOSFET preamp reacts to pedals like a traditional valve amp
- Footswitchable Clean and Overdrive channels
- Patented ISF (Infinite Shape Feature) tone control
- Studio quality ‘Plate’ and ‘Hall’ digital reverb options
- Clean channel Bright switch for sparkling clean tones
- Series effects loop for pedals
- Cabinet emulated Line output for silent headphone practice and easy recording
- High-quality playback of Line input sources
- Vintage cream and oxblood, or black and ‘biscuit’ basketweave styling



