I needed a handy guitar that could travel with me, but this is so much more: the sound is great and the quality is extremely good.  I disassembled and assembled it several times, it was a piece of cake!  Great value for the money, thank you for making these amazing instruments!

My Rambler Travel Guitar arrived today.  It was well set-up, I couldn’t be happier with it.  The Rambler is very well made, sounds and plays great. Exactly what I was looking for, with an impressive gig bag as well!

I was just absolutely floored by the build quality and the finish of this very cool travel guitar!! I plugged it in, and it sounded nice and fat like my Les Paul.  I couldn’t be more happy with this purchase!

“In comparing my Rambler portable guitar side-by-side with my PRS, the tonal frequency is bright and clear, it overdrives unusually smoothly, giving a bluesy sort of tone. I can also get a “100 pound violin” sound with high amp gain, neck or both pickups and tone almost fully down. Dropping the gain back a bit, giving extra mids on the amp gives me a decent Santana tone. Split the pickup and drop the volume a touch cleans up a rhythm tone, then pop in the coil tap and up the volume for a mild overdrive solo.”

“My Strobel Rambler travel guitar is doing GREAT, never had a single problem with it and I’m really enjoying the coil tap feature. I run the guitar through a Tascam CD-GT 2 processor and headphones. Occasionally, I’m able to play on jets while on my trips. Everyone that sees the Strobel guitar is blown away by it.”

“Hi Russ, it’s a winner! Very usable sounds in a band context. I would gig with it anytime. The size makes it nice to carry around. The pickups, wood selection, and big neck, plus locking down the bridge seem to make a very big sound for the size. The fret work is great. It feels very comfortable to play. The tapping of the pickups give usable tones too. Great job, great craftsmanship and the quality suggest a MUCH more expensive guitar. I would have to say yours is a bit under priced.”

Lead Guitarist from the Noveaux Honkies, International Blues Competition Finalists
“As far as the Rambler Electric Travel Guitar goes I’ll say this. If you shut your eyes and just play the thing you have no idea it’s a travel guitar. Other travel guitars I have played are good as a practice item in a pinch. The Rambler really performs. Plays like a real guitar and more importantly sounds super good. Its cool walking on a plane and taking the thing with you with no fuss and then showing up somewhere and sounding that good!”

“Russ, my Custom Rambler travel guitar looks fantastic! The back of the guitar looks GREAT! As does the rest. Please let me add $100 to the price for the ‘Russ Strobel special touch’… I know for sure you spent time and effort, and I would like to say thanks … I thought you were so awesome in communicating with me on your progress of the guitar, to the point of emailing me ‘pics of the process of making a Strobel’ now that’s what I call service!! “

“I really like the Rambler Travel guitar – it’s high quality and very convenient. I actually play it more at home than my Les Paul!”

“The Strobel Rambler Classic portable guitar is a similar style to the Hohner with the following differences: It is a bit lighter. It has the shorter Gibson scale length which is more to my taste. Tuning is a lot easier than the fiddly system on the Hohner – it uses locking tuners and you have more room between the knobs. The Rambler has one other more obvious advantage than the Hohner or most other compact travel guitars – you can easily remove the neck with thumb screws and pack it into a computer notebook carry bag – how’s that for cool!”