Furch Pioneer EM Engelmann Spruce Acoustic Travel Guitar

Description

From Furch:

Pioneer-EM a

Engelmann spruce / African mahogany

Features

Short-scale, all-solid wood acoustic travel guitar
Proprietary design features and production technologies, including individual soundboard voicing, Booster Soundport resonator, and CNR System® Active neck construction with automatic string action regulation
Refined appearance featuring black body binding and rosette
Premium gig bag included

Pioneer is our most affordable all-solid wood mini guitar, designed to let you learn, practice, and travel without compromising on tone. Crafted for exceptional acoustic performance, it features our proprietary individual soundboard voicing process and the Booster Soundport resonator, delivering a rich, balanced tone in a short-scale package. Thanks to the innovative Furch CNR System® Active, the string action adjusts automatically, ensuring flawless playability straight out of the gig bag.

Built to Play, Engineered to Last With Furch CNR System® Active

The Furch CNR System® Active neck design takes our original CNR System® to the next level, offering unparalleled stability and precision for players who demand consistent performance. This innovative design adapts seamlessly to changes in humidity while maintaining perfect playability, ensuring your guitar feels and plays the way you want it to—every time you pick it up. Featuring a dual-action truss rod encased in a rigid carbon structure, the system is further enhanced by a solid-wood expansion element that automatically adjusts the neck angle to maintain consistent string action over time. It minimizes the need for costly, time-consuming neck resets and eliminates maintenance concerns, giving you the freedom to adjust your setup quickly and easily and allowing you to immerse yourself fully in the joy of playing—because that’s what truly matters.

Discover Your True Sound With Furch’s Voicing Process

Furch’s unique voicing process fine-tunes each soundboard to perfection, resulting in guitars that deliver crystal-clear, harmonically rich tone. This precise adjustment ensures a balanced and dynamic sound across the entire tonal range, allowing your music to truly come alive.

Experience Clearer, Louder, and More Resonant Sound With the Furch Booster Soundport

The Booster Soundport revolutionizes your playing experience by enhancing your guitar’s sound projection and body resonance. This innovative feature reduces internal air pressure within the guitar’s body, allowing the top board to move more freely and produce a stronger, fuller sound with the same strumming effort. Strategically positioned to direct sound towards you, the player, it ensures you hear your music as clearly and richly as your audience, creating an immersive and authentic performance experience every time you play. Discover the Furch Booster Soundport and unlock the full potential of your music.

Make Every Note Shine With Furch’s Resonance Enhancing Finish

Every Furch guitar features our uniquely developed ultra-thin lacquer that not only protects, but also enhances your instrument’s natural resonance, creating a richer, fuller sound that brings out the true character of each note. Additionally, it highlights the wood’s natural beauty, ensuring your Furch guitar is as visually stunning as it sounds.

Stylish binding

The Pioneer EM features elegant black binding that enhances its sleek appearance, highlighting the natural beauty of its all-solid top, back, and sides.

Precise Machine Heads

The guitar ensures exceptional tuning stability with Furch machine heads featuring a precise 1:18 gear ratio for smooth and reliable adjustments.

Maximum protection

Transport your Pioneer with confidence, knowing it’s safeguarded by a high-rigidity gigbag specifically designed to fit its body shape. Featuring reinforced walls, this durable gigbag provides superior protection against impacts, ensuring your instrument stays secure at all times.

Features

Body
- Available body shapes: Pioneer Cutaway
- Neck-to-body joint: 14th fret
- Solid top – grade: Engelmann spruce – A
- Back and sides – grade: African mahogany – AA
- Booster Soundport in the side: Yes
- Binding: Black
- Rosette: Black with white line
- Bridge: Ebony
- Bridge pins: Ebony
- Saddle: Black TUSQ fully compensated
- String spacing at the bridge: 2 3/16″
- Body finish: Open-Pore Finish
- Pickguard: Anti-scratch Transparent
Neck
- Nut width: 1 3/4″ (Also available in 1 11/16″ option)
- Neck-to-body joint: CNR System® Active with automatic string action regulation
- Neck reinforcement: Carbon-reinforced truss rod with two-way adjustment
- Neck profile: Furch soft V
- Scale length: 24 3/16″
- Fretboard material: Ebony
- Fretboard radius: 15 3/4″
- Fretboard side inlay: White position dots
- Fret finish: Brushed frets
- Headstock overlay: Black ABS
- Neck material: African mahogany
- Machine heads: Furch machine Chrome – gear ratio 1:18
- Nut Black TUSQ
- String spacing at the nut: 1 1/2″
- Neck & headstock finish: Open-Pore Finish
Accessories
- Comes in: High-protection gig bag

Shipping & Returns

Free Shipping

Most orders over $99.00 ship for free inside the lower 48 states. Certain items that are large and heavy do not qualify for free shipping.

We Ship Worldwide!

For information on International Shipping, please call, email or use live chat for rates. Orders shipping outside the Lower 48 States to Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico and international orders do not qualify for free shipping. Orders shipping to U.S. Military APO/FPO addresses, PO Boxes, and US territories (Guam, Virgin Islands, etc.) can only ship USPS. NOTE: Boxes over 70 lbs each cannot be shipped to these locations.

As a security precaution, orders over $200.00 will only ship to the address your credit card company has on file for you.

*Korg and Mesa/Boogie products are only available for shipment within the USA.

Returns

We want you to be completely happy with your purchase, so we offer a 48 hour approval period on most purchases (see exclusions below). The 48 hour approval period begins when your purchased item is delivered to your door. If after 48 hours you’re not happy with the item, just contact us via phone, email or live chat on our website to arrange for a return authorization (RA#) and return shipping instructions. Any package sent back without prior authorization will be refused.

Returns must be shipped back to us within two days of the RA being issued. Items must come back to us undamaged and in the same condition they were shipped out. All manuals, paperwork, cables, tremolo arms, wrenches, etc… must be included or full credit will not be issued. Any items not conforming to this policy will be subject (at our discretion) to a restocking fee of 20% of the purchase price.

Refunds will be issued minus all related shipping expenses, if free shipping was initially given, the cost we incurred to get the item to you will be deducted from your refund. A 10% restock fee will also be deducted from your refund. Restock fees will be waived for full value exchanges.

Here are exceptions to our return policy.

Custom orders of any kind are non returnable and non refundable. We often charge a deposit before we will place a custom or special order. All special order deposits are NON REFUNDABLE, no exceptions.
Microphones, Harmonicas, In-Ear Systems and any other items that come into contact with your mouth or ears.
Items labeled as BLOWOUT, are non-returnable. These are often being sold below cost and are considered “all sales final”.
Software (this may also include hardware that includes software), unless still in shrink wrap with barcode affixed.
Guitar strings, blank media, and other disposable merchandise.
Guitar or bass pickups that have been installed or used in any way.
Any item advertised as “USED” is non returnable.

*Payments for music lessons are non refundable, no exceptions.

View our detailed Return Policy here.

Early Order Cancellation

All deposits are non refundable. Lots of our products are special orders and in many cases your order has to be built for you at the factory. This is what makes a lot of our products special. Once your order is started, it's being put together just for you. For this reason we ask that you don't cancel your order after you place it with us. If for some reason you absolutely have to cancel your order with us, we will assess you a 25% cancellation charge. This amount is equal to 25% of your total order amount. Ask us before you place your order to see if what you're purchasing is considered a special order.

Damaged Merchandise

Do not accept your shipment if the package shows any signs of external damage. After the item is returned to us we will ship you a replacement. If you receive incorrect or defective merchandise, please call 781-335-0700 within 5 days for a return authorization number.