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Permalink Reply by Keni Lee Burgess on July 15, 2012 at 3:11am

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

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Permalink Reply by Thorsten Hinrichsen on July 15, 2012 at 4:22am

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

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Permalink Reply by Jantan ux on July 15, 2012 at 9:19pm

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.

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Permalink Reply by Jantan ux on July 16, 2012 at 6:16am

If this don´t work out low like I want.

Then I make someones old short scale bass too baritone if I can. 

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Permalink Reply by Jantan ux on July 18, 2012 at 8:19am

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.

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Permalink Reply by Jantan ux on July 26, 2012 at 4:48am

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 . 

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Permalink Reply by Jantan ux on July 28, 2012 at 8:10am

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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