matt
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Has anyone had experiences with Baritone guitars? I’m thinking of buying an Eastwood and converting my Fender to a baritone…does anyone own/has owned one of these, and can anyone give me insight on how easy it would be to convert a strat into a baritone?
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Brad
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I have absolutely no experience with bariton guitars. I did a few searches around and found this thread. Sounds like it’d be pretty straightforward. Put on the heavier strings, widen the nut slots, adjust intonation & relief. Sounds</em easy enough.
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Brad
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Oh it looks like the gauges here listed here.
Guitar Player 4/95: BARITONE GUITAR CONVERSION
6: B .065W
5: E .052W
4: A .042W
3: D .032W
2: F# .018P
1: B .014P
Guitar Player 7/95
6: .056W
5: .046W
4: .036W
3: .026W
2: .017P
1: .013P
4: .036W
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Austin
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Matt, you don’t have a fender strat, you have a squire but when and if you do convert it to a baritone tell me so i can hear it. now im wondering where you could find those specific strings because i have never seen any other than the ones used for standard tuning
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matt
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I know I could get the strings from Eastwood and maybe the neck…thanks for the thread Brad, it’s gonna help.
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Brad
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At least in the stuff I’ve read it doesn’t seem like you really need to replace the neck, just adjust it. And strings should be available at most decent music/guitar stores. Here they are at Musicians Friend.
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Brad
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Also: very interested in hearing what it sounds like when you get it set up. I don’t know if I’ve ever heard one. I assume it’s lower, but that’s about it.
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matt
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for change the neck relief…how easy is this done? I assume I would need to go someone to do this…
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matt
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Also, Eastwood Guitars makes a Baritone Guitar and you can watch it being played…it sounds really cool, something that should probably be played more often.
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Brad
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I think you just adjust the truss rod, which isn’t such a big deal. And if you bust the truss rod by over-doing it (seems like it’s hard to do), you were going to buy a new neck anyway.
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Austin
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yeah, you don’t hear too much about baritone guitars and not many people i know even know what a baritone guitar sounds like so i would expect it to be hard to convert a strat to a baritone, but i also would not know what a baritone sounds like if not for Matt. i think i would just be easiest to buy a Eastwood baritone since i come pretty cheap, i mean $399 US i think thats a great price and it comes already set, it would save you a lot of time and you wouldn’t be risking your strat if you were to mess up one something while converting it.
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Brad
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Definitely good points Austin. Most of the time it’s easier just to shell out the cash. Though doesn’t every guitar player dream of having their own tricked out special one-of-a-kind guitar?
I don’t know if I’d sacrifice a real nice guitar to the baritone, but if it cost less than $300 and is more than a year old I’d probably do it. And install some LEDs and crap in that sucker.
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matt
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Starter strat, must be like two years old now…it would be around 50 with the wear and considering it has some paint chips (wasn’t me). I don’t think I could buy the new guitar since I am looking for one to replace the starter…I really don’t want to have three guitars and not use one.
With the baritone, I might replace the pickguard and knobs and then when I have enough cash maybe the pickups.
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Austin
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good idea, but that may end up costing you a fair amount of money if you end up doing something wrong but then again if you do screw up you could always give it to your sister considering she was probably the one who made those paint chips but seriously how often do you play your electric
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Brad
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Whatever you do, make sure you take lots of pictures and samples and post ‘em here.
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