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Re: Baritone guitars - please school me!
I’ve not dealt with All Parts, but I can highly recommend the Warmoth stuff.
I have a Warmoth baritone strat, solid ash body in vintage white w/ that reddish/brown tortoise pickgaurd and strap locks – it has dual humbucker routing and currently there is a Seymour Duncan Custom 5 in the bridge and a Jazz in the neck, but I will be replacing those with Pearly Gates humbuckers in both the neck and bridge, its got a Birdseye maple neck w/ a reverse strat headstock and rosewood fretboard w/ abalone dot inlays on a conical radius (typically referred to incorrectly as “compound” radius) and stainless steel frets on a 28 5/8 scale, Earvana nut, Schaller mini locking tuners and a Gotoh/Wilkinson VS100 tremolo (all chrome). I run D’Addario XL 14-68’s on it tuned B-B and often Bb-Bb.
You know, a lot of people play baritones with more restraint than they would a regular guitar; they play it more like you would a bass, i.e. not a lot of string bending etc. When I first started playing this thing it beat my a$$. I’m saying that I play it just like I would a regular guitar and I’m talking double stops et al. Took a while, but my fingers got big and strong and adjusted to the abuse and now I can play it just like I would any standard guitar – BUT I have to play it very regularly, or, such as with weight lifting, I’ll lose the muscle if I take any time off. I remember thinking that doing a double stop at the 3rd fret would impossible with this gauge/tension. It’s not. Not saying there wasn’t pain involved initially. Definitely do whatever it takes to get you one of these! Whatever it takes. I simply love the low B/Bb tuning and the extra tension and deep twang I get. I never did like 7-string guitars and they don’t have the snap that a true baritone has. This Warmoth baritone scale length seems very long on paper, but is perfect (for me) @ 28 and 5/8ths – not too long and feels more like a regular guitar with a bit longer neck than it does a bass or even a Bass VI or one of those Danos. I just wear it a little higher up all Vernon Reid style is all. Get you one.
If you need strings for that thing, check out juststrings.com
I’ve not dealt with All Parts, but I can highly recommend the Warmoth stuff.
I have a Warmoth baritone strat, solid ash body in vintage white w/ that reddish/brown tortoise pickgaurd and strap locks – it has dual humbucker routing and currently there is a Seymour Duncan Custom 5 in the bridge and a Jazz in the neck, but I will be replacing those with Pearly Gates humbuckers in both the neck and bridge, its got a Birdseye maple neck w/ a reverse strat headstock and rosewood fretboard w/ abalone dot inlays on a conical radius (typically referred to incorrectly as “compound” radius) and stainless steel frets on a 28 5/8 scale, Earvana nut, Schaller mini locking tuners and a Gotoh/Wilkinson VS100 tremolo (all chrome). I run D’Addario XL 14-68’s on it tuned B-B and often Bb-Bb.
You know, a lot of people play baritones with more restraint than they would a regular guitar; they play it more like you would a bass, i.e. not a lot of string bending etc. When I first started playing this thing it beat my a$$. I’m saying that I play it just like I would a regular guitar and I’m talking double stops et al. Took a while, but my fingers got big and strong and adjusted to the abuse and now I can play it just like I would any standard guitar – BUT I have to play it very regularly, or, such as with weight lifting, I’ll lose the muscle if I take any time off. I remember thinking that doing a double stop at the 3rd fret would impossible with this gauge/tension. It’s not. Not saying there wasn’t pain involved initially. Definitely do whatever it takes to get you one of these! Whatever it takes. I simply love the low B/Bb tuning and the extra tension and deep twang I get. I never did like 7-string guitars and they don’t have the snap that a true baritone has. This Warmoth baritone scale length seems very long on paper, but is perfect (for me) @ 28 and 5/8ths – not too long and feels more like a regular guitar with a bit longer neck than it does a bass or even a Bass VI or one of those Danos. I just wear it a little higher up all Vernon Reid style is all. Get you one.
If you need strings for that thing, check out juststrings.com
