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.
Tuners I´m going to use are like this 
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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
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 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 need to work on head stock.
I Thinking to use .013 - .062 baritone strings lighter strings.
In my next build I use truss rod.
All recommendations, critics etc. are welcome.
If this don´t work out low like I want.
Then I make someones old short scale bass too baritone if I can.
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.
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
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.
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Enjoy your build. I look forward to seeing and hearing it...Keni Lee