Did I Purchase the Right Travel Guitar? The Steinberger Spirit GT-PRO Deluxe Review 

I've used this method for a few years now. My only addition would be to also check intonation at frets 12 and 24. This will dial your tuning spot on. You will eventually notice that this guitar needs to be tuned less than any other.

The blue one was my 2nd choice. It's sweet looking for sure. It usually takes me a few minutes to adjust to playing my Steinberger, but I do find it a nice guitar for when I travel or when I'm sitting in long Zoom meetings.

​@@IStillWanttobeaRockStar For me, these Steinbergers are not only great travelling guitars, they are also great gigging guitars in their own right, I've already gigged my Steinberger twice so far in a live band performance, I play mine through a Boss Katana KTN-100 100W 1 x 12 combo amp, and it does sound good enough for gigging and recording, I'm using a set of D'Addario single ball-end strings in 42-09 gauge on my Steinberger, you do need to lock the string wraps on the plain G, B, and high E string to stop them slipping under tension and making the string go flat, the wound E, A, and D strings don't need their wraps locked, just a standard soldering iron and some 60/40 electrical solder, or lead-free solder is enough to lock the wraps, to make tuning easier, I put the nylon washers from six old standard tuners on each of the six tuner screws in between the bridge and the knurled knob, doing that seemed to get rid of the grittiness, making the tuners smoother to tune.

You are a wealth of knowledge on this.. :D I'm not even familiar with what it means to "lock the string wraps" 😂 However.. I'm eager to learn. However, at least for me and my body shape, I have a tough time playing the Steinberger when I'm standing because the face of it points down and it's hard for me to see what I want to see... perhaps just more familiarity would help. Or, maybe just some slimming down on the ole gut! :D

​@@IStillWanttobeaRockStar If you have a look at the strings the next time you replace them, particularly where they have little round pieces of brass attached to them (these are called ball-ends) you'll notice how on the plain strings the string is wrapped or twisted round on itself a few times, those are the string-wraps I'm referring to, they attach the strings to the ball ends, most of the time they are strong enough to resist the string tension, but on the thinner gauge of the strings I've found that the string-wraps tend to slip a bit making the string go flat in pitch, a quick fix for that is to coat the string wraps with a little bit of electrical solder which is what I meant by locking the string wraps, most people don't realize this but guitar strings are solderable, a lot of my knowledge about this was mostly trial and error, but also doing some searching on Google too, I have a bit of a pot belly too so I know what you mean, I probably need to go on a diet too....hahahaha, I'm currently 54 years old.

Nice!

I like the way you think... I will commence guitar buying when I get back to North America! And your tuning down idea... never would have thought of that. I have learned another trick from my trusty viewers! Thanks dude.

Completely agree. He needs a parlour size acoustic for dragging around.

Awesome... I had to look one of those up... they look super cool. How much was it when you bought it?

All I did is when I removed the string... I just turned the screw up and down a few times. I kind of wonder if there's some gunk on the threads that makes it hard to turn when there is tension. That seemed to have done it.

@@IStillWanttobeaRockStar This is a very common problem with these. I sent the guitar back to Gibson multiple times, they did not fix it both times. The solution is to use cheap roller washers on the tuners. And ALOT of machine oil/lube. I just use the cheap 3 in 1 stuff. (I also had a problem with the bride staying in tune with even light tremolo use, which seems to have been fixed after the second time I sent it back to Gibson. But only time will tell.) This guitar is so close to being AMAZING, but it's a bit finnicky. I am currently using it for cover band gigs. It's perfect for that because I don't need a perfect studio level guitar just to make some dough playing bars and restaurants to 50-100 people. It's extremely portable and it's versatile with the tremolo and pickup specs, so it doing what I need it to do so far.

You can also put some small nylon washers in between the tuner knobs and the back of the bridge to alleviate friction issues, you can get nylon washers off of worn out conventional tuning machines.

My wife and I have a travel channel... it makes for unusual travel sometimes.

It was the action, which I raised just a tad via the saddle screws (I think that's what they are called) for that string. Then it stopped ringing.

The force is strong in you.

Not sure yet... I have to embraced this part of guitar playing quite yet. Perhaps soon.

For some reason, I don't seem to be able to write comments under videos at present on my main computer, not sure why, but I can hear and I could use emojis. Good choice of travel guitar. It will fit in a suitecase and good EMG pup.

Unfortunately I don't know. I think it had an Indonesia sticker on it that I removed when I got it... but I don't know for sure. The invoice doesn't say either. :(

As I understand it, the suppliers for this guitar have changed occasionally since the new millennium. The specs have changed a lot since then, including a change from thru to set necks, different pickup configurations, and different woods. From my memory, they've been made in both Indonesia and China, and I've heard they have very slightly different dimensions, such a varying neck width. I've only ever seen an Indonesian one, and it has a narrow neck. Some people say the R-trem has had a minor update at some point that helps a bit with durability of the tremolo. It's hard to get straight answers on this guitar lol

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Agreed, but to me, I still think I like it for security sakes. :) As the years progress, I suspect I will become more and more comfortable.

@@IStillWanttobeaRockStar With all my respect, just give yourself 2-3 weeks regular everyday practice trying playing seeing the frets jus by side of your eye. Even with a glance. You'll feel very comfortable. And pls share the result. Thanks for the video btw