Guitar Pic of the Day - 12.26.08 - Fender Friday!!!

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Lark Street Music
Year: 1997 (Circa)
ManufacturerName Fender®
ModelName Bajo Sexto
Case: None
Color: Butterscotch
Condition: Excellent
Price: $2,395.00
Description: Fender® BAJO SEXTO, Fender® Custom Shop by Fred Stuart, '90s, Tele® blonde, features like a '52 Tele- black guard , maple neck, Vintique intonatable brass saddles, knurled knobs, one very cool Baritone guitar, SN 0362, tweed case

[Prages]

Hey, it's a really overpriced Tele. AOK

I like it, other than the price.

[Help!I'maRock!]

Hey, it's a really overpriced Tele. AOK

I like it, other than the price.


its a baritone. cop0

[Prages]

Maybe the baritone part should be in the description...or did I just not see it? :weebz:

Still, it seems a bit pricey for a Tele with an extra long scale neck.

[warren0728]

now that i reread it it does say baritone in the description....nice guitar but i can't use all the frets on a regular guitar so if the baritone has even more of them no thanks.... :facepalm:

[Help!I'maRock!]

now that i reread it it does say baritone in the description....nice guitar but i can't use all the frets on a regular guitar so if the baritone has even more of them no thanks.... :facepalm:


the additional frets are there to help extend the scale. this way, they can use a standard guitar body. my Dano baritone has 22 frets, but the standard guitar version has 19.

[warren0728]

now that i reread it it does say baritone in the description....nice guitar but i can't use all the frets on a regular guitar so if the baritone has even more of them no thanks.... :facepalm:


the additional frets are there to help extend the scale. this way, they can use a standard guitar body. my Dano baritone has 22 frets, but the standard guitar version has 19.


i never new what baritone meant until today....i can't handle the standard scale....much less an extended one.... messedup0

[Help!I'maRock!]

now that i reread it it does say baritone in the description....nice guitar but i can't use all the frets on a regular guitar so if the baritone has even more of them no thanks.... :facepalm:


the additional frets are there to help extend the scale. this way, they can use a standard guitar body. my Dano baritone has 22 frets, but the standard guitar version has 19.


i never new what baritone meant until today....i can't handle the standard scale....much less an extended one.... messedup0


well, its an extended scale so that you can tune to B standard. or A, or low E, or whatever. Jim Soloway's guitars are a 27" scale and he says that it brings greater clarity when tuned to standard.

also, if i can play baritone with my short arms and girl hands, so can you. poke

[Mark Wein]

I like for a bunch of reasons except for the price. My buddy scott has a baritone tele he made from warmoth parts that records with quite a bit.

If you've ever watched Malcolm in the Middle he played a bunch of guitar on that show (officially he was the music editor but he also wrote and played a bunch for the show, too) and whenever they are "up at the ranch" in the last season or so you hear his baritone tele.

I was actually thinking about a guitar like this last night as I was thiking about gear for my demo studio.....

[Help!I'maRock!]

I like for a bunch of reasons except for the price. My buddy scott has a baritone tele he made from warmoth parts that records with quite a bit.

If you've ever watched Malcolm in the Middle he played a bunch of guitar on that show (officially he was the music editor but he also wrote and played a bunch for the show, too) and whenever they are "up at the ranch" in the last season or so you hear his baritone tele.

I was actually thinking about a guitar like this last night as I was thiking about gear for my demo studio.....


i absolutely love my dano baritone. that it was $250 makes it even better. today i'm gonna put new strings on it for the first time. :)

[Mark Wein]

I would seriously consider that when I decide to get a bari. The tele is a cool idea but I think that (much like a 12 string guitar) the nature of the baritone overshadows much of the benefit of having a nice instrument to the point where a cheap one is perfectly acceptable.

Dano guitars always have a neat sound, anyway....

[Help!I'maRock!]

I would seriously consider that when I decide to get a bari. The tele is a cool idea but I think that (much like a 12 string guitar) the nature of the baritone overshadows much of the benefit of having a nice instrument to the point where a cheap one is perfectly acceptable.

Dano guitars always have a neat sound, anyway....


about 5 years ago, i had the opportunity to buy a Rickenbacker 660/12 for $1500. i was in Sam Ash in Huntington and the salesman unboxed it for me (i dunno why, i told him i wasn't going to buy it). i picked it up and it was one of the most perfect guitars i've ever played. from a purely investment standpoint, i should have bought it. but i couldn't justify spending $1500 on a guitar that would get played 3 times a year. so i bought a Dano for $300 and have been happy since. it doesn't feel or play the same at all, but i do like it and it fills that niche.

[Mark Wein]

I would seriously consider that when I decide to get a bari.  The tele is a cool idea but I think that (much like a 12 string guitar) the nature of the baritone overshadows much of the benefit of having a nice instrument to the point where a cheap one is perfectly acceptable.

Dano guitars always have a neat sound, anyway....


about 5 years ago, i had the opportunity to buy a Rickenbacker 660/12 for $1500. i was in Sam Ash in Huntington and the salesman unboxed it for me (i dunno why, i told him i wasn't going to buy it). i picked it up and it was one of the most perfect guitars i've ever played. from a purely investment standpoint, i should have bought it. but i couldn't justify spending $1500 on a guitar that would get played 3 times a year. so i bought a Dano for $300 and have been happy since. it doesn't feel or play the same at all, but i do like it and it fills that niche.


Thats how I see it. Unless thats your main axe and really need the difference then its not really worth the money.

You ever try one of these? I rented one for an album I did back in 1997 (I won't post the track I used it on because its embarrassing) and it was pretty cool...

http://guitargeek.com/gear/img/fender_XII.gif

[Help!I'maRock!]

never played one. they're incredibly rare and go for some serious cash. i'd love to check one out.

you could have used the rental money to buy a dano. :weebz:

[Mark Wein]

pretty much. They probably weren't selling those guitars n the mid-1990s, though. For a while they were selling the strat 12s and I considered getting one of those....

[Help!I'maRock!]

pretty much. They probably weren't selling those guitars n the mid-1990s, though. For a while they were selling the strat 12s and I considered getting one of those....


the dano 12 reissue didn't come out until at '98 at the earliest. though at the time you could have picked up an original one for about $250 anyway. now they're around $1k. :facepalm:

[Mark Wein]

I hate how that works. I wouldn't be able to afford any of my vintage gear right now if I had to replace it all....I got my deluxe for $380 in 1994....

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I hate how that works. I wouldn't be able to afford any of my vintage gear right now if I had to replace it all....I got my deluxe for $380 in 1994....


which is why almost all of my gear is from the past 20 years. i can afford it. i'm fine with that. i buy guitars to play anyway, not to collect.

[Mark Wein]

I don't have ANY vintage guitars. The oldest ones I have are the 79 paul and the 79 Tokai, neither of which could be considered "vintage".

For a long time there weren't new things on the market that I would have been happy with but in the last few years there have been both guitars and amps that I would use and be happy with...

[Help!I'maRock!]

I don't have ANY vintage guitars. The oldest ones I have are the 79 paul and the 79 Tokai, neither of which could be considered "vintage".

For a long time there weren't new things on the market that I would have been happy with but in the last few years there have been both guitars and amps that I would use and be happy with...


wait, and they'll be vintage. Harmony guitars weren't considered vintage until Marc Ribot was seen playing a Stratotone with Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. they went from $200 guitars to $800+ almost overnight.

[Mark Wein]

I don't sell anything anymore. I sold a great sounding 1974 super reverb that I had blackfaced and my original 100 watt Silver Jubilee Marshal head and regret it to this day frown0

[Help!I'maRock!]

I don't sell anything anymore. I sold a great sounding 1974 super reverb that I had blackfaced and my original 100 watt Silver Jubilee Marshal head and regret it to this day frown0


ouch.

i'm going to be selling a buncha stuff in the new year. mostly amps and pedals.

[Prages]

Until about 2 years ago, I'd never sold anything. Now I've sold a few guitars and a few amps. The only thing that was really 'valuable' at all was the JCM800.

I don't miss it at all though.

[Mark Wein]

I don't sell anything anymore. I sold a great sounding 1974 super reverb that I had blackfaced and my original 100 watt Silver Jubilee Marshal head and regret it to this day frown0


ouch.

i'm going to be selling a buncha stuff in the new year. mostly amps and pedals.


Yeah. I've had other stuff (Top Hat, Mesa, a 50 watt jubilee that sounded terrible, ADA) that I don't miss at all but those are the ones that I should have kept.

I don't miss my American Standard Jazz bass, though. My cheaper P-bass special sounds better :weebz:


Other "not missed" items include

1992 American standard strat
1980 Les Paul (terrible guitar)
early 80's Tokai strat that one of my buddies currently owns
1986 Charvel Model 2 (actually I miss this a little)
80's Jackson parts guitar (same buddy has it)
Fernandes Thinline tele (it was merely "OK" but I do have a good recording of it on the GOT album)
Fender Deluxe strat (ugliest guitar I've ever owned)
Brawley super strat (just not a good enough guitar to own)
D'Armond X155 - decent archtop for the price but not really something I ever used.


The pedals list would choke a horse :weebz:

[Mark Wein]

Until about 2 years ago, I'd never sold anything. Now I've sold a few guitars and a few amps. The only thing that was really 'valuable' at all was the JCM800.

I don't miss it at all though.


I wouldn't mind owning a JCM800 although I would almost never use it. A 50 watt 4 input 70's JMP would be nice, too...

And to think we hated those amps in the 80's until the JCM900 came along biggrin

[Denverdave]

Super nice - but I have no need of a baritone guitar. And the price is a bit stiff.

But - it is one sweet guitar none the less. AOK

[Help!I'maRock!]

I have no need of a baritone guitar.


that's what i said before i got one. :weebz: