Dig it! I think I want a Baritone guitar now.

Mark Wein

Mark Wein

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This is El Borrachitos. I dig.


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Mark Wein said:
This already gave me some ideas for new riffs.
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almost instantly, right?

i like writing on the baritone, especially with a capo, because i can do all my regular stuff. then when i transpose to a standard guitar it gets completely turned around. which makes me play differently and pushes the song in new directions.
 
Yeah. Scott has this tuned down to A too I think....I'm wondering how I can cheaply make this happen :embarrassed:
 
Mark Wein said:
Yeah. Scott has this tuned down to A too I think....I'm wondering how I can cheaply make this happen :embarrassed:
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my Dano was $275 when i bought it. i do know that Dano has some kind of baritone available this year. sometimes you can find them for $100. sometimes you can't get one for less than $500.

the absolute cheapest way i can think of is basically what you've got there. buy a used baritone conversion neck. they pop right on to any 25.5" scale guitar. and 28.5" is plenty long enough.
 
Yeah...I dig the tele sound with this. Otherwise I'd be shopping for bari necks for the black strat.
 
My first thought upon reading the thread title was this:

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Ani DiFranco and Keller Williams both do )or have done) wonderful things with these guitars.
 
Help!I'maRock! said:
the absolute cheapest way i can think of is basically what you've got there. buy a used baritone conversion neck. they pop right on to any 25.5" scale guitar. and 28.5" is plenty long enough.
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What Howie said. Warmoth and others used to make bari-necks. You might be able to buy a new one, but used would be cheaper.
 
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I just can't afford another guitar right now. I've gotten more new guitars in the last three weeks than I have in the last 3 years.


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how about taking Jim's request from Ellen's thread and stringing one of your guitars with a heavy set of strings, and tuning down?
 
Mark, my kid does like Howie suggested and runs his strat as a baritone. We had to rework the nut to accommodate the strings. 13-72 maybe?
Anyway, he tunes it to B and it works fine. All it cost was a set of strings and some time to fix the nut.
 
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