Warmoth Q

baritone

baritone

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I have no woodworking skills; I have tiny experience with solderling. However, I can completely dismantle my Squier Strat, put it back together, and make it play better than before. A fully-loaded Warmoth Strat-style body & neck would come unassembled for about $1k.

My question: Do I need any skills beyond screwing together & effective setup to make this happen?

Thanks!
 
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As long as you are ordering it new and getting parts that Warmoth says are compatible, then you should be just fine. I think they will even do most of the soldering for a smallish fee??
 
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You have to be able to drill holes for pickguard or pickup ring mounting, tuner mounting screws, strap buttons, output jack plate, inserting any bushings for bridges, tweaking the neck/body mounting and final fret dressing.
 
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The main skill you need is a money making skill to pay for it. For that price you can get a couple fully factory assembled guitars.
 
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Thanks for the replies! Oi, I forgot about fret dressing; I don't think I would attempt that on my own.

The only reason I was looking at Warmoth is that I want another baritone guitar without the usual gothic theme. Agile & Halo custom shops are way more expensive.
 
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Carvin, or whatever they are called now, will build you one and send it assembled the way you want it
 
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One of my strats will be in baritone tuning shortly with a massive investment of $15 for some 11-59 strings.
 
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If you don't get finish or expensive wood, a warmoth ends up around the price of a Mex.
 
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The best Warmoth builds I've ever played had been assembled and set up by a pro. Things like mating necks to bodies, hardware installation, rolling the edges of the fingerboards, dressing frets, things like that.
 
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Seriously, if I understand their website correctly you can get a maple/maple baritone conversion Strat neck for less than $200. Bolt it onto any Strat (Mexi, etc.) and you've got your baritone Strat for way less than $1,000. And when you get tired of it you can put the original neck back on the guitar and sell the neck and/or the complete guitar. Seems like the best way to go baritone?

Calling Keisel is also a good idea. I took a quick look at their website and could not figure out how to build a baritone Bolt, but I'd be they will do it and it might come in over $1k but you'd have a top-quality guitar already finished, assembled, set up, and ready to play.
 
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I don't have a ton of skill doing this, and I was able to put it together. The good thing about Warmoth is that it is sort of a payment plan: you can collect parts over time, so the $ impact isn't as great. You can really research what you want, and when finally put together, that $1k Warmoth can be much better components than most $1k guitars.
 
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My parts Strats and Teles have come from Warmoth, USACG, and Guitar Mill bodies and necks. I've gotten all of them off reberb for low, low prices, because people ditched projects or didn't like what they bought.

USACG BLack Strat body: $190
Warmoth Strat neck, 6105, pao ferro board, maple neck with lite finish: $145 *needed no fret work*
Guitar Mill roasted birds eye maple neck, 9.5 radius, 6105 fret wire: $220, as the skunk stripe cracked and there was a repair done (did need fret work)
Fender USA American Deluxe Tele body, Olympic white, tortus binding, all hardware: $350

Take your time, and you can find all the parts you need as B stock, or mint second hand for cheap. My Strat and Tele have impressed a lot of people, and since I saved cash not buying new, I had a great tech put them together and set them up perfectly.
 
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Thanks for all the viewpoints! My own estimate was in the high side, since I wanted to hand-pick each feature, down to the fret wires & pickup routing. But keeping a lookout for in-stock/B-stock parts which match my preferences is a great idea!

Before I made the switch to baritone 13 years ago, I started by setting up my Squier w/13-56 strings to see if I would be willing to dedicate B-standard as my only tuning, and I stuck with it.
 
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I have thought about getting a Mexican Strat (I like 'em) & adding a long conversion neck, but I would still have to get new pickups & wiring - definitely keeping this in mind.
 
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Mexican Strats are a good investment. The ones I heard that were made the best were made between 1995 to 1999 or so. It's worth checking them out.



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That Ibanez is funky; it's just like a Fender VI, but with a bass aesthetic instead of regular guitar. It looks exactly like the 5-string bass I used to have.
 
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Its a 30 inch scale
It looks just like my 4 string SR500, and my buddies SR505
Just with six strings. And a narrow neck

The video on it says you can use it as a baritone guitar or a six string bass
Tuned E to E just like a guitar

I want one
They had one at a semi local store here the other weekend and I love the way the neck was
 
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