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Curious about the sound and versatility of a premium travel guitar with foldable convenience? Tommy Benson, talented guitarist with the Ciari Guitars team and host of Guitar Gods Power Hour on KX 93.5 Laguna Beach, demonstrates the different tonal options of the Ascender’s dual-humbucker pickup configuration, which also includes separate micro-switches to split each pickup into single coil pickups for many different tonal varieties.

Whether it was in person, in the Ciari Gig Bag, or under an airline seat… by now you’ve likely seen the Ascender by Ciari Guitars folded in half and have a question or two about how our innovative folding system works. Here are to-the-point answers to our top four questions: How does the guitar actually fold?Our patented folding system includes a concealed lever located in the lower perimeter, an actuator located in the back recess, and a 3-link hinge located at the 12th fret. The fingerboard includes shallow V-grooves adjacent to each hinge joint for each string. Rotating the lever causes...