Ktone Travel Guitar Review
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I'm looking for a travel guitar with a full-scale neck, and I found this one cheap on ebay- it's apparently a knockoff of the Hofner Shorty. The Shorty gets reasonably good reviews, so I took a chance on this one. After a few minutes with the Ktone, it became very clear that the flaws in workmanship and detail far outweigh the price savings.
Turns out, sometimes you get exactly what you pay for...
my one is okay deluxe ... just bought it .... 11 years later smile
Thank you John for this info. I serve as a missionary in Kenya and have been searching for a travel electric. This is very helpful. Blessings. steve
Your videos are always so clear and informative. I'd be cool if you did a video discussing different preamp and power tubes.
EVERYONE should own a ukelele. I am a guitar snob who thought they were toys -- but it's just a mini Classical guitar, really! AMAZING.
So i carry it with me everywhere. I can be doing finger exercises just walking down the street or waiting in lines or on buses or planes.
REALLY helps my chops get up, and that pays off when I go back to the 6 strings.
Ukes are great for almost everything. Whether writing songs or practice shredding!
I have a traveler and love it
Nice review John! We also got a Traveler after much research. Got the Traveler EG-2 for my daughter and family and myself. My daughter will use it for lugging to school for her band. Plays like a nice Strat. Had the guitar guy at Guitar Center test it out before taking it home and he liked it a lot as well. Could use a little work on the humming sound when plugged into amp and headphone pug in sounds a bit dirty. Can fix that later on...small issue. Played guitar alot of more after that.
Instead, you could just buy a Hofner Shorty.
You can find one at £110, and it’s amazing.
Mr. Cooper seems to know what he's talking about. Thanks for a cogent review.
I picked up an Ibanez Gio Mikro for about 120 bucks. It fit in my footlocker to take to Iraq, so it's good and compact for traveling. Watch out for 2 things, though: 1, it's a 3/4 scale guitar so it's kind of small, and 2, the tuning pegs do not hold the strings in tune well if you bed hard and often. Other than that, it got me through deployment with a stompbox-sized amplifier. It's a low price and popular brand for what it's worth. Thanks for the review!
i just bought a k-tone travel guitar for 60$,it went to Afghanistan,!!!the neck looks nothing like the one you demonstrated,!!!everything is tight,no loose parts.and it sounds really good for the price,i recommand this fun,cheap guitar,and girls love it!!!!have a good day!!!
Happy to hear you got a good one! Could be that they've improved production over the last few years.
could be,or i just got lucky !!!have a good day!!!
@johnplanetz - Your info has been valuable to me, Thank You, so I'd like to give something back. I got a Steinberger Spirit GT-Pro Deluxe 9 years ago. Some frets needed leveling above 12th, flat-sounding pickups, lower quality controls. After 2 weeks I became very comfortable with the strange design and replaced the Teles, Strats, LP as my daily player, to date. So comfortable that I rarely touch my other guitars. Hitherto unknown tuning stability, VERY solid and well built.
Bummer. I ordered a$350 lucite headless ktone. Hope it’s not junk. I need a guitar I can stow on my sailboat. Maybe I’ll have to make room for a full-size, but how do I choose between my les Paul and my telecaster? I don’t think I can. It’s likewich kid do you love more.
Alternatively, just unscrew the neck from the body prior to travel and reattach once you've arrived at your destination.. it's what I do with one of my strats and it's trouble free
The grain thing is a sleeve. It's to save money, by making the neck made out of two or three pieces. They have it in guitars less then 1k most of the time. And the frets is just bad cause of "you get what you pay for."
if you are reviewing a guitar best to know what you are talking about! The neck isn't broken as you suggest, it is deliberately spliced. A one-piece solid maple neck would not be found in a guitar at twice this price. This copy reflects badly on the excellent build quality of the original Hofner and the problems hint at it being assembled badly which is a different issue!
thanks for the heads up!!!
THANK YOU for this video.
(Although, as a rule, you don't get what you pay for. EX: most of my computers have been APPLES -- and ALL were junk, junk, junk. )
My headless korean Steinberger imitations are BETTER than most guitars of any price, IMO.
My used $100 Ibanez Destroyer is light years beyond Gibson or Fender guitars.
I was going to buy a Ktone, so you SAVED me! XOXO!
I am in Taiwan and I am trying tu buy a Hofner Shorty from China...I
don´t think Hofners are made in Germany anymore, so all of them have to
come from China, but there are too many different adds in Taobao, the
biggest site for internet purchases, I don´t know which ones are bad
knockoffs and which are legit... If someone has purchased a shorty from China, can you please give me some advice.
Did you try the Höfner Shorty BK? Can you let me know if it worthy to purchase? I am looking for a travel guitar as you are?
Sorry, I never tried the Hofner. I ended up getting a Traveler EG-1 which is great.
I was looking for traveling guitar for some time myself. What do you think about Steinbergers (besides price :-) of course)?
Tell it like it is, John. Let's call a spade, a spade.
Btw, double ball end strings are so EASY man, seriously. My friend has a Steinberger and it takes him literally 20 seconds to change a string. It's the most hassel free string in existence.
Very nice and informative presentation, thank you ;)
i gotta say.....i have one of these, and it looks nothing like that. it's actually in pretty decent condition to be honest. maybe because you got it on ebay or something??
i'm not saying it a fancy guitar, but mine's not quite that bad lol
Maybe you got lucky, or I got unlucky :) Who knows, but I'm glad it's working for you.
haha could be!
i also fixed it up a bit after i got it, so that could be a factor lol
How a bout Xaviere JTT Travel Les Paul
Looks nice- but I haven't tried it.
Looks nice- but I haven't tried it.
Check out the lestar my minstar.
I just bought a ktone just to see what it would be like. It's got the same issue with the frets. These aren't great guitars.
That is possible, it is also possible that these are from the same guitar factory but didn't pass a certain stage of the quality control. I guess Höfner doesn't like its name on the most shitty guitars that come out of there, and you can bet some of them are bad since they produce in masses. :)
love the guitar, didnt like the information :/ darn, ah well thanks :)
That really sucks I was gunna get one so thanks for warning me
1st!!!
Complete rubbish :(