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    Greetings from Arizona

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    On 7/31/2024 at 1:24 PM, WayCoolStudios said:

    Hey tx-ogre,

    Tucson is pretty in the monsoon season, they have awesome lightening shows! I have heard that Texas is beautiful as well! Also love ZZ Top, yet another great thing from Texas!

    Monsoon season was always an adventure.  We moved there in April and bought an older home with only a “swamp cooler.”  Worked great while the humidity remained low.  Then came the monsoon.  Humidity went WAY up and the “swamp cooler” did nothing but circulate the hot, humid air throughout the house.  After about two weeks of suffering, we had a heat pump installed.  Life was good again.  Fortunately we lived in the Catalina Foothills in the northeast part of town (higher elevation),  so flash flooding wasn’t a problem like it was in the lower elevations further south.  The lightning storms were spectacular.

    Anyone have a baritone guitar?

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    On 8/5/2024 at 4:46 PM, Phil OKeefe said:

    Yes, I have a 2005 Danelectro M.I.K. Baritone. It has a 30" scale length, the classic "bottle" headstock, and I have it tuned B – B. It's the classic single cutaway Dano body shape, but it's a solidbody (not masonite over a pine plywood frame like my '98 DC-12) with two lipstick single coil pickups. I like it quite a bit. I also have a Squier Bass VI which is also a 30" scale, but that one is set up for 6 string bass, as per normal Bass VI specs. 

    With the 30” scale length on the Danelectro baritone, what string gauge do use use for B Standard tuning?

    Anyone have a baritone guitar?

    in The Gibson Lounge

    Posted · Edited by tx-ogre

    19 minutes ago, Rabs said:

    No, only standard six string guitars. I did try to cut my own fret slots with blanks when I first started, only to ruin like £50 worth of rosewood. I then found a place that pre slotted the frets and just used them the whole time. So doing something like a multi scale fretboard. Well im sure if I tried hard enough I could but these days as I said in the other thread, its hardly worth it in todays market.

    Thanks for the reply.  I can see where it would be challenging to do/learn something like that in a limited market.  Not a lot of us crazies wandering off into the “dark side.”   The transition from a standard scale 4 string bass to a MS 6 string bass was easy since I had been playing a 7 string guitar for years so I was used to dealing with the low B string.  Moving around the MS fretboard was very comfortable, but I obviously don’t do things like strum Barre chords on a bass.  That is something I think about when considering a MS 7 or 8 string guitar.  I won’t know for sure until I actually play one, but as you might expect, finding one in a local guitar shop to “test” drive is highly unlikely.

    Anyone have a baritone guitar?

    in The Gibson Lounge

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    Hey Rabs,

    I forgot to ask if you have ever built a multi-scale guitar or bass, regardless of the number of strings or scal length.  My 6 string Ibanez bass (SRMS806) is my first and only multi-scale guitar/bass.  My 7 & 8 string guitars are regular scale, but in a future purchase of either, I would seriously consider a multi-scale option, along with a longer scale length.  I was just curious as a builder what opinion, if any, you have on the subject.
     

     

    Nice product placement

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    3 minutes ago, PrairieDog said:

    Ouch…

    No offense.  I never did have much use for the local papers in the Twin Cities by the time I moved away in 1978 and finally again in 1984.  I’m sure they aren’t any better nowadays.  Come to think of it, I can’t think of a single newspaper in any of the many places I’ve lived over the years that were worth reading.

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    Anyone have a baritone guitar?

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    Posted · Edited by tx-ogre

    On 7/26/2024 at 7:08 PM, Rabs said:

    Well I say I want one.. But I do at least want to try one. They have some baritone squire teles in the local shop so I may venture out next week and give one a go...

    It’s definitely worth checking out.  Once you get used to the change in fretboard reference point (low and high B vs. low and high E), it is a fairly easy transition.  And if you like the availability of the lower registers like I do, you will feel right at home.  And if they have any 7 strings hanging in the wall, I suggest you give it/them a “test drive,” if nothing more than for comparison.  You just might be surprised how a 7 string could be the answer.  You can do everything you can on a 6 string baritone and more.  Good hunting!

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