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.

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    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.

    http://youtu.be/SQu4fs1eT18

    Enjoy your build. I look forward to seeing and hearing it...Keni Lee

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