I would like to ask all owners and also everyone who tried Furch Little Jane - the travel guitar.
I am thinking about this piece, but it is really much money… so I also think about standard Furch or something Cort Gold A6-A8, which is brand high end and for lower cost…
But I am from Czechia and something still attracts me to not cheap Furch guitars.
Right now I am almost 2 years on my Fender CC-60 SCE with 43mm nut. Prefering fingerstyle and I read 45mm is standard and could be better than 43mm… and MAINLY I really need new guitar, because who doesn’t?
Thinking about it mainly for home playing. Can it be enough competitive for home playing against “big” guitars?
Still hope this piece could make me go outside for some big walk… just me and my instrument. Yep… and somewhere in the far my girfriend who is not that much in long trips.
Enough talking… please share thoughts, experiences and also videos, if you can.
Of course I am paralel digging Google, ChatGPT, YouTube and Instagram. Also had this guitar already in hand on Furch Tour.
I’m pretty sure this is the guitar my friend Chris up the road has. If so, it is a lovely little guitar and feels quite solid/well-made even if it collapses down to fit in a small backpack. Lovely sound with locking tuners and electrics on board.
I believe you are paying for the compactness it can be broken down into for travelling though, and you will find a much nicer sounding/feeling/looking guitars for the same price if you are mainly playing at home.
Also if you are thinking of long walks and playing outdoors, you might want to look into carbon fibre travel guitars, as they claim not to be damaged by rain/sand/hard knocks etc.
Better hurry though, as I hear Santa is finalising his list
This is probably the most important bit of info.
If you’ve held and played one, you should have a good idea if you’d like to own one
From all travel/compact guitars I tried, LJ was the best sounding one, hands down. By miles and miles.
But I really struggled to fit my fingers on its fretboard. Well, I just couldn’t. Too tiny.
The Furch Little Jane is a really great travel guitar, it’s very well made and well thought out. Their latest ones I think have a new modification that improves their tuning and action stability.
There’s another brand that comes from Slovakia - Dowinia that are also very good but I’m not sure about if they make a Travel guitar.
@brianlarsen I can understand how you mean to have better sounding guitar at home in this price… so what will be your recommendation? Because right now I am thinking about I would like to have maybe different guitar than my current one. Because in some stage it will go on second line and I wont play it anymore… that much.
I am not planning to go to extreme weather, so I think this could be enough to “survive”.
I had it in my hands… but its still too much money, so I am collecting as many experiences as I can.
@Alexeyd Good point… but my fingers can move on 43mm, so I think 45mm would be good. I already know you are really experienced fingerstyle musician mainly for classical style, so maybe you have longer fingers?
@DarrellW I know Downia, but nothing attracts me to this brand. Tunning and action stability is for new Pioneer guitar. LJ has different build, so it does not have CNR active and I think it wont ever have.
I’m the last person you want to ask for acoustic guitar recommendations
I gave my beginner classical to my daughter in Germany a couple of years ago, and hardly ever play the Fender C60 that my other daughter found in a dumpster in 2019…
I suppose the more specific you are in the ‘features’ you require, as well as budget, the more helpful the responses from learned forum-folk might be.
Good luck and I hope you find your Grail
