Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Emerald X5 - acoustic travel guitar

Posted by Jon in • Acoustic Guitars, Travel Guitars,

Emerald X5
Last friday I featured Emerald Guitars’ new creation. Well aside from Emerald Guitars’ Custom Shop creations they also make a travel guitar that was “...born out of a need for a guitar that was small enough to take anywhere, Strong enough to endure anything and with a sound that would make you want to play it all the time rather than just when you are travelling.“ The result of this desire is the X5, an acoustic guitar made from a one piece carbon composite body and neck and carbon fibre fretboard. The neck is apparently so stiff and strong that it doesn’t even need a truss rod. The nut and saddle are by Graphtech as are the bridge pins.

To see just how robust this guitar is check out what the Emerald crew put the poor X5 Life through! It survived being submersed in the Atlantic, climbing a mountain and being used as a canoe paddle!

“...a neat wah wah effect could be created by swishing the water around the inside of the guitar.“

YIKES! Don’t worry apparently it was still in tune after its ordeal. Check out the guitar specs page to hear some samples of the guitar in action. And if you fancy owning one of these robust guitars, you can buy one through their online shop for £545 with a pickup or knock off 80 quid without.

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Ovidiu - GuitarFlame.com on 09/17 at 05:13 PM

I particularly like that part with “used as a canoe paddle”. I can only imagine what actually led to this test. I presume they didn’t just plan this in the laboratory, OK, guys, I propose to also test it as a canoe paddle, what do you say? I guess they took it traveling and while in the canoe somebody probably said, hey, hand me that guitar over there, I want to do something crazy!!! Look at me!!

Jon on 09/17 at 05:21 PM

Yeah I know, I think that is the first time I have heard of a guitar being used as a paddle that is still playable afterwards!!

Sammy on 09/19 at 03:02 AM

I’d love one for banging around the house and for traveling, but at $855 US (today anyway), it’s a bit steep for part time use.

San Antonio Attorney on 09/23 at 02:00 AM

Yeah that is so cool. A guitar that has a lot of use smile

suzuki fairings on 09/30 at 10:04 AM

This is really cool.

Croatia Travel on 10/14 at 03:06 PM

Cool guitar, with many feature! I would like to travel with it

trucking jobs on 10/15 at 07:25 PM

I guess they took it traveling and while in the canoe somebody probably said, hey, hand me that guitar over there, I want to do something crazy!!! Look at me!!

driver jobs on 10/17 at 11:16 PM

I can only imagine what actually led to this test. I presume they didn’t just plan this in the laboratory, thanks so much.

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It was a good read for me, I can only imagine what actually led to this test. I presume they didn’t just plan this in the laboratory.

guitar lessons on 10/20 at 12:00 PM

That was really cool.. I have plans to collect different types of guitars.. This would probably be added to my collections soon.. thanks!

dissertations on 10/25 at 09:35 PM

I think that is the first time I have heard of a guitar being used as a paddle that is still playable afterward!!

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