2. Collapsible Guitar Questions

Intonation Issues – Help! My Electric Guitar is Out Of Tune!

If you’re intonation is off on your guitar, and you have a collapsible Journey electric (such as the OT990BD or OE990CB) you should first make sure you’ve tightened the neck fully. If it’s not tightened fully, you’ll have higher action, which could impact intonation. After you’ve confirmed the neck is tightened fully, you can adjust the saddle with the included…

Why are Journey Instruments guitars heavier than normal acoustic guitars?

Because our guitars are engineered to collapse we over-engineer the latch mechanism with stainless steel components. This adds weight to the areas of attachment in the neck and body. Additionally, for acoustic guitars, we need to reinforce the block area by 3-4 times that of a normal acoustic neck block. While our guitars are a bit heavier, because they’re “over…

My neck is not latching on to the latch mechanism when I press it into place.

If your neck is not latching into position before twisting the bolt to fully tighten, first try the instructions here to make sure you’re pressing the neck properly into place against the body: https://journeyinstruments.com/journey-overhead-assembly-instructions/ If the latch catch is not attaching to the neck mechanism, use a pair of needle-nose pliers to bend the latch catch in the neck closer…

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