Has anyone here built a baritone electric?

[jrm]

For the past months I've been jonesing to get my hands on some baritone guitars. I finally found an acoustic at a decent price, but also have been keeping my eyes open for an electric. I've even considered building my own...

At any rate, I'm trying to find baritones that are pretty traditionally shaped (telecaster/les paul). I know Michael Kelly used to make one that was LP styled, Gibson made their own baritone, etc... but thought I'd see if anyone here has made a baritone guitar to see what you have done (not to copy, just to appreciate the fine craftmanship of our fine luthiers here).

-jon

[Chris Rice]

We did this one a few years ago..covered in denim and sealed with polyacrylic.



It had a Duncan Tapped Hot Lead that I modified (baseplate, dewound) paired with a Fender Original Vintage in the neck. Maple/rosewood neck, alder body. I'd avoid overwound pickups, my favorite sounds in baritones are always the low output vintagey ones. Strings can be an interesting journey as well, ended up with .013 D'Addarios tuned to B.

[decay-o-caster]

Bill Chapin is making me one now - sort of Gretsch-meets-Tele-meets-Paul, as I understand it. I'm excited!

[whoismarykelly]

I would do a telecaster for clarity.

[pukko]

I´ve built myself a baritone(ish) guitar, is a 27" scale length guitar a baritone? Well, here it is:






And these are the specs:
Body: 1-piece chambered mahogany with bookmatched 2-ply bound curly maple top, (white binding with black accent line)
Body finish: Hand stained sunburst with nitrocellulose clearcoating
Neck: Wenge set neck (goes all the way to the bridge pickup) with ebony fretboard and headstock veneer. 1-ply white binding on fretboard and headstock
Scale length: 27”
Neck finish: Oil
Inlays: Mother-of-pearl on 12th fret and headstock
Nut: Bone
Tuners: Gotoh with ebony knobs
Truss rod: StewMac Hot Rod
Frets: StewMac Wide/High
Pickups: Seymour Duncan TB-14 Custom 5 (bridge) and Seymour Duncan SH-2 Jazz (neck)
Pickup switch: 5-way Megaswitch P-model which gives these pickup combinations:
1 Bridge pickup
2 Inner pickup coils, parallel
3 Outer coils, series
4 Outer coils, parallel
5 Neck pickup
Electronics: 500k volume pot, 250k tone pot, EMG VMC sweepable (300 HZ to 3000 Hz) mid boost/cut control
Misc: Curly maple pickup rings, curly maple (with 2-ply white/black binding as on body) truss rod cover and switch knob, wenge string anchor, wenge back plate, wenge jack plate, tortoise pickguard with white binding

[Tinman]

I built the body and USA Custom made the neck. I used GFS lipsticks. Yes, it sort of resembles a Strat.

[Super Locrian]

Originally Posted by pukko

I´ve built myself a baritone(ish) guitar [...]

Wow, nice work! Do you build for customers as well?

[jrm]

wow, these are all great!

[vangit]

Schroeder 7 String Baritone (not mine)

[pukko]

Originally Posted by Super Locrian

Wow, nice work! Do you build for customers as well?

Thanks! No, I'm just building for myself. It's only the third guitar I've built and I definitely don't feel I'm ready to build for someone else...

[jrm]

Pukko:

You should think about it man! That is gorgeous!

[pukko]

Originally Posted by jrm

Pukko:

You should think about it man! That is gorgeous!

Thanks a lot! I'd love to build more, but after you take away the time spent on work, family and (sometimes) sleep there's not a lot left for building stuff even for myself...

[Camstone]

Hamer has a baritone model in their line called a Subtone that's based on the Monoco. Here's a link:

http://www.hamerguitars.com/?fa=detail&mid=413&sid=195

[cmatthes]

I'm in the somewhat "on hold" process of building a DoubleTele with a Baritone (w/Trons) up top and a regular 6 Tele below.

Warmoth Bari neck - really nice stuff.

[Pietro]

Check out Anderson's Baritom.