Amigo Travel Guitar Retires: A New Life on the Wall

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I swear I did my best to make this travel guitar sound.
And it never worked out. It’s sad.
Because I always wanted to have a small handy instrument which I could keep in the trunk of my car or travel.
The Amigo Travel Guitar was promising. I have purchased it on eBay.
It truly has a nice look, good materials and satisfactory sound.
But. Whatever I tried I could not tune it so it could be a playable instrument.

First, the saddle was too high.
I’ve sanded it as much as I could. and it still was not low enough.
The next step could be modifying the lower bridge.
But before doing that I was trying to fix the nut on the neck.
It didn’t help either.
When I was able to tune it on the first 3 frets it was a disaster on the 5-7 frets and vice versa.
And what was surprising the 12th fret harmonics matched the 12-fret tone!

So after several desperate attempts to fix it I finally had to give up.
At least the Amigo Travel Guitar looks nice on the wall.

So here’s the resume of this story:
Be extremely careful while buying unknown brands on eBay!
Because technically this travel guitar was not damaged and was fairly cheap (under $100), so I did not have enough arguments to return it.
On the other hand, you know what to expect when you buy on eBay a well-known brand. From this point, you are more protected.
For example, my first purchase on eBay was a Regal RD40 resonator guitar. And I’m still loving it very much.
It is a relatively cheap but very well-done and sweet-sounding instrument.