Short scale travel tenor guitar

[Granger]

Here is a little travel tenor guitar I made recently. 20" scale, 10" lower bout, 3" deep. Top is port orford cedar, back and sides curly koa, pin less bridge. Bracing pattern designed after the Tacoma Papoose. Strung DGBe. It sings nice!!

[40bpm]

Now that's just cool! Of course I want one.

[fox]

Very neat, quite a lot of soundboard with the design, what is Tacoma Papoose?

[Granger]

Very neat, quite a lot of soundboard with the design, what is Tacoma Papoose?

The Tacoma guitar company (no longer around) made what might be the best short scale, small bodied production guitar ever made called the Papoose. They sound great and they are still much loved. So I bought one and studied the construction of it. It has an off set sound hole to maximize the working area of the top, uses a very simple A-frame bracing, bolt on reverse heel neck. I used these design elements in this instrument and it was successful. The shape of mine is different than a Papoose and was an attempt to increase working area and volume in a small body. The shape is similar to the blackbird carbon bodied guitars. So it isn't so much an original idea as it is a composite of ideas from a few instruments that inspired me. I am really enjoying it.