Outstanding Short-scale Travel Guitar
Looking for a high-performance travel guitar that actually sounds good? The Fender CT-60S sounds great in the studio or on the tour bus, and it has features normally found on more expensive acoustic guitars, including a solid spruce top, mahogany back and sides, a mahogany neck with a comfortable Easy-to-Play profile, and a smooth rosewood fingerboard with rolled edges. Its body style is based on the Auditorium shape, but its scale length is a super-portable 23.5". The CT-60S's quality tonewoods deliver a solid, full-bodied sound with ample projection for vocal accompaniment, campfire singalongs, and other unplugged applications. The instructors at Sweetwater's Academy of Music often recommend Fender Classic Design guitars like the CT-60S to their beginning and intermediate students, because they offer a combination of quality, playability, looks, and value that can't be beat.
Quality tonewoods generate classic tone
Spruce is highly valued for guitar tops — and for good reason. This variety of stiff but elastic softwood is gorgeous and is equally suited to aggressive flatpicking and fingerpicking styles of play. The CT-60S features a solid spruce top with traditional fan bracing and mahogany back and sides, producing warm, balanced tones from low to high end. With its modified Auditorium-style shape and rosewood fingerboard, the CT-60S is a guitar that just looks and plays great.
Travel-ready shorter scale length and solid bracing
Full-size acoustic guitars typically are built with scale lengths averaging around 25"-26" — which is not so easy to take on a plane. The CT-60S has a more portable scale length of only 23.5". It also features scalloped "X" bracing, which provides solid support for the top while letting it resonate more freely than conventional bracing for optimal tone and volume.
Fender CT-60S 6-string Acoustic Guitar Features:
- Shorter 23.5" scale length is more convenient to travel with
- Solid spruce top and mahogany back and sides look great and emit rich tone at great volumes
- Body style based on the Auditorium shape is extra-comfortable, looks good and is compact
- Rolled fingerboard edges for enhanced playing ease and confidence
- Mahogany neck with slim Easy-to-Play profile for fast, comfortable playing
