I´m making 28.5 scale 4 or 5 string 16 fret baritone cbg.
Neck is mahogany and ash laminated together.
For the maple fingerboard I measured and marked frets layout.
Next I burned with wood burner frets layouts
Next I measured from nut to bridge 28.5 scale
I glued fingerboard on neck. My method is best done by two persons.
I need work more on box and neck ect.
For nut and bridge I use short screw bolt.
Maybe I can play it also as bass with bass amp.
I´m thinking what baritone strings to use. Neck is 5cm wide.
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A standard guitar's standard tuning (from lowest string to highest) is E A D G B E.
Baritone guitars are usually tuned a perfect fifth lower (A D G C E A), a perfect fourth lower (B E A D F♯ B), or a major third lower (C F B♭ E♭ G C).
The scale lengths of various baritone designs range from 27" to 30.5", and the string gauges range from the normal .012 - .054" set to sets as thick as .017 - .095".
They tend to play more like a bass because the stretches are quite large between frets for normal chord shapes.
Enjoy your build. I look forward to seeing and hearing it...Keni Lee
baritiones are cool. I haven't built one yet but my next build will probably be one.
I bought a cheap danelectro dano 63 baritone guitar two years ago because I have always loved spaghettti western guitar sounds - I'm so happy with it ...
I tune the danelectro B E A D F# B - there's a lot of string tension if you use thicker strings (so the neck might bow). If you don't put a trussrod in, use lighter strings for longer scale or thick strings for shorter scales - that's it. The longer the neck and heavier the strings, the more Twang you'll get but the more tension will be on the neck either.
Good luck
Idea is to get lower sound than typical guitars have.
Baritone 6 string are .062-.095
In music store seller and store owner told me that heavier strings are only .059 no more bigger guitar strings.
They showed me the 7-string guitar with .059 string. They told me this is 7-string baritone.
I think they hardly know what is baritone.
I found .013 - .062 scale baritone strings.
I´m going to use open g tuning. I think I use lighter baritone strings.
Regular strings are too short for baritone.
If this don´t work out low like I want.
Then I make someones old short scale bass too baritone if I can.
I shaped and made neck thinner. First I used Angle cutter with sandpaper disk.
Next I used wood rasps. 4cm neck was too heavy and thick for me
Shaped it and ended up with 3 cm neck with fingerboard.
Without fingerboard 2,5cm, like my classical guitar with fingerboard.
I Thinking to use .013 - .062 baritone strings lighter strings.
In my next build I use truss rod.
All recommendations, critics etc. are welcome.
I find out that If I use oak on lamination, I don't need trussrod. Oak lamination
I read that white ash strength is comparable to white and red oak.
I don't know if this what I used is white ash or not .
I'm searching best varnish for neck.
I think that varnishing is easier and faster than coloring
I don't think I can easily buy varnish made specially for guitars.
I find the topic in forum: Neck varnish
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