Heads-up- for all you Extended Scale Length lackers

Great find! I look forward to your NGD report.

I was bari-curi and went the Warmoth route a few years ago. I had done some bass playing and always enjoyed that, and my guitar style (calling it that is an insult to people that play in these styles), is roots—roots rock, roots reggae, roots blues, etc—included bass runs and alternating bass, etc., so the baritone just seems like a perfect fit for me. It is a bit more awkward than a regular 6 string, but then, picking up my Strat feels like it’s almost too easy to play. I also love the slightly mellower voice—you can still get a good top end squeal out of it, and a very snappy deep bass (well, not too deep), but the slightly chesty midrange is lovely. (And these do make most downtuned “metal” guitars sound anemically castrated.)

That 30” neck will be a long reach—close to a fender bass. They’ve put the bridge in a normal guitar spot, rather than shifting it back like on a bass. One of my dream guitars is Don Grosh’es take on a Baritone. He has the bridge moved back so that the first fret is about at typical Strat length away. There’s a shell pink one on his site archive…
 
Alan W said:
Great find! I look forward to your NGD report.

I was bari-curi and went the Warmoth route a few years ago. I had done some bass playing and always enjoyed that, and my guitar style (calling it that is an insult to people that play in these styles), is roots—roots rock, roots reggae, roots blues, etc—included bass runs and alternating bass, etc., so the baritone just seems like a perfect fit for me. It is a bit more awkward than a regular 6 string, but then, picking up my Strat feels like it’s almost too easy to play. I also love the slightly mellower voice—you can still get a good top end squeal out of it, and a very snappy deep bass (well, not too deep), but the slightly chesty midrange is lovely. (And these do make most downtuned “metal” guitars sound anemically castrated.)

That 30” neck will be a long reach—close to a fender bass. They’ve put the bridge in a normal guitar spot, rather than shifting it back like on a bass. One of my dream guitars is Don Grosh’es take on a Baritone. He has the bridge moved back so that the first fret is about at typical Strat length away. There’s a shell pink one on his site archive…
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Most of my current guitars (see above post) have 30" conversion necks, and I find them perfect comfort-wise. I'm not a giant by any means, but standard guitars feel like ukuleles on me:ROFLMAO:

I've been baritone / VI exclusive for at least ten years now, so I guess I've had time to acclimate to them

Editing to add- one thing I love about the longer scale lengths is that you can really hear and feel the difference with various string gauges. The Meteora above is my primary guitar, and it's got 12-62s tuned to drop A on it, and it feels/ sounds like a set of 9s on a 25.5". You can hear it in most of my recent demos. I generally go for the thinnest strings I can so I get a more aggressive pick attack, not a huge fan of the mellow thumpiness of the thicker sets.
 
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