Tell me stuffs about baritone guitars...

[Unleash The Fury]

My Agile septor 627 came with 9s in E standard and it sounded so right i almost didnt set it up for B

 

[Aso]

Jackson made a DK27 which is 27" baritone dinky. It does have a TOM bridge though. You can find them pretty cheap since they weren't popular. I got mine for around $300.
I went the custom route for my next baritone. Having a 27" scale King V with a Hannes bridge being built.

 

[diagrammatiks]

27 actually is the same spacing too, diagrammatics It goes 25.5 > 27 > 28.62 > 30.32
But yeah, what he said ^ The only easy way to do it is 24 frets on 25.5, 25 on 27, 26 on 28.62 etc, adding frets behind the nut. That way is indeed only a stretch of the neck and fretboard blanks but gotta alter the neck taper and clamping points etc too

I'll trust your expertise on this but stewmac's spacing calculator gives a different set of measurements. It's small enough to be a rounding error I suppose.

 

[bostjan]

Yeah, since the twelfth root of two is 1.0594630943592952645618252949463 and 25.500000000000000000000000000000" times that is
27.016308906162029246326545021132", I'm sure there are plenty of rounding errors going around.

I highly doubt any fret slots are really cut to place the fret crowns with a tolerance tighter than ±0.001", though, honestly.

 

[diagrammatiks]

Yeah, since the twelfth root of two is 1.0594630943592952645618252949463 and 25.500000000000000000000000000000" times that is
27.016308906162029246326545021132", I'm sure there are plenty of rounding errors going around.

I highly doubt any fret slots are really cut to place the fret crowns with a tolerance tighter than ±0.001", though, honestly.

i stand corrected then. I must have punched some numbers in wrong earlier. the frets were a lot more off.

They could technically do 23 frets at 27.

but 27 inches is still not a baritone #onemancrusade

 

[Jeff]

I'd love a Warmoth 30" conversion neck that I could put bass VI strings on. They do an actual bass VI, but the options for it really suck. It only really enables you to build a Fender Bass VI clone.

 

[bostjan]

i stand corrected then. I must have punched some numbers in wrong earlier. the frets were a lot more off.

They could technically do 23 frets at 27.

but 27 inches is still not a baritone #onemancrusade

In the numbers you posted?! They are only 0.001" off. For example, frets 8-9 on 25.5" is 0.902". 9-10 on 27.0" is 0.901". 10-11 on 28.62" is 0.902". None of the numbers in your screenshot are worse than that.

 

[JohnTanner]

Jackson made a DK27 which is 27" baritone dinky. It does have a TOM bridge though. You can find them pretty cheap since they weren't popular. I got mine for around $300.
I went the custom route for my next baritone. Having a 27" scale King V with a Hannes bridge being built.

Who is making that for you? Halo Guitars? I'm considering building a Merus 6 in 27" scale if i did go custom..

 

[Aso]

Who is making that for you? Halo Guitars? I'm considering building a Merus 6 in 27" scale if i did go custom..

It will be a Masterbuilt Jackson.

 

[KnightBrolaire]

i stand corrected then. I must have punched some numbers in wrong earlier. the frets were a lot more off.

They could technically do 23 frets at 27.

but 25.5 inches is still not a baritone #onemancrusade

Fixed that for you *cough* PRS is wrong *cough*

 

[JohnTanner]

It will be a Masterbuilt Jackson.

Oh cool. I actually didn't know jackson had a custom shop open to the public. Ibanez needs to figure their s**t out and open the LACS to us regular folk. I would be all over that

 

[JohnTanner]

So it appears there is a whole lot I didnt know about the finer details of the baritone guitar. A lot of you guys have really done some research into the technical specs.

 

[Shoeless_jose]

Silverburst explorer with 28" scale if you luck out and can find one.