Boondocker

The Boondocker Trailhead is here.

The easiest place to start making music.

A beautifully crafted, beginner-friendly instrument paired with the free Trailhead Companion app. Get tuned, learn your first chords, and start playing in minutes.

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Easy to play
A simple, approachable design for true beginners.
Guided from minute one
The free Trailhead Companion app gets you playing fast.
Built to grow with you
A real musical instrument, handcrafted for a lifetime of music.

Trailhead Companion's five-minute start guide, listing the steps from meeting your Trailhead to playing a song

Trailhead Companion naming the parts of the Trailhead headstock

Trailhead Companion's tuner showing the bass D string in tune

Meet Trailhead Companion

Your personal guide to making music.

The free Trailhead Companion app walks you through tuning, your first chords, and a simple progression — all in about five minutes. Designed for beginners, built for real music.

A Jaromin VOICE contact microphone clipped to an acoustic instrument

Hear your instrument

Meet Jaromin VOICE

A contact microphone that lets your instrument sound like itself.

Clear, balanced sound for acoustic and folk instruments — without intrusive hardware or permanent modification. VOICE captures the character that made you choose your instrument in the first place.

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Engineered withZeppelin Design Labs

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New arrival

The Boondocker G3 Travel Guitar

A real travel guitar in the Boondocker footprint — fits the same gig bag as the D2. We built two for a festival; both sold the same day. Now they're here.

Scale: 22.375"
Nut: 1-5/8" Corian
Body: Sapele through-neck

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For classrooms, clubs & first-timers

Made for the classroom

Genuinely easy to learn and easy to afford. From a hands-on build at the kitchen table to a full set of instruments for a school music program, there's a Boondocker made for the way you start.

DIY Dulcimer Kits

Build your own lap dulcimer — a satisfying project that ends in a real, playable instrument. A favorite for hobbyists, gift-givers, and homeschoolers, with easy kits for club and camp group builds too.

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Boondocker Trailhead

Built for the music classroom — an affordable, durable first instrument that's a natural step toward (or easy alternative to) the ukulele. Its compass-inspired soundhole marks where the journey begins.

Meet the Trailhead