Tenor Guitar/Mandola 8-string Converted Luna Safari travel guitar

Here's a wonderfully fun instrument. It started life as a lightly used Luna Safari travel guitar but has been converted into an eight-string instrument. Depending on the strings, tuning and musical style this can now be played as an octave mandolin, a double-strung tenor or plectrum guitar, a mandocello, a bouzouki or mandola, a baritone ukulele, or even just a regular six-string.

Currently tuned CGDA as a tenor guitar or mandola, the C and D courses both have a high string tuned an octave up, giving the instrument a lighter echo that sounds lovely and produces sweet harmonic overtones. Playing absolutely beautifully with resonance and clarity of tone.

The underlying guitar is a great little instrument, in used physical condition. Structurally excellent with low action, room on the saddle, working truss rod, etc. A bit well loved cosmetically with various dings, nicks, and scratches, as pictured. A prior break to the headstock has been very securely glued and should not be of further concern, but the repair is visible.

I am happy to set this up differently before shipping for $25. There are a TON of different configurations this instrument can play in, and I'm sure you will think of more. For any given setup, I customize the string gauges as well, to ensure good playability and prevent overloading the guitar.

The conversion process entailed, among other steps, resizing tuner holes, fitting two additional tuners, adapting and leveling the nut, replacing and leveling the saddle, adding and slotting four bridge pin holes, and exploring various setups to optimize the instrument in this eight-string configuration. The original bridge pin holes are retained, so this instrument can be returned to a six-string configuration with ease.

Ships fast, well protected, and fully insured.

By the way, I'm happy to do a similar conversion on your instrument, either something you already own or a model you buy new for the purpose. Not all acoustic guitars can easily accommodate the extra pins and tuners, but many can. Shoot me a message or visit wisterialutherie.com/conversions if you're interested!