30” Baritone Partscaster Build
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- Опубліковано 15 тра 2024
- Everyone should own a baritone. If you’re stuck in a rut, a baritone can really get your creative juices flowing. I assembled this baritone using inexpensive parts and very little labor. Enjoy
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00:00 - Parts acquisition
3:36 - Modding, Design, CAD
6:59 - CNC
8:51 - Parts and supplies
11:46 - Bridge & Tuner installation
13:26 - Pickguard build
16:23 - Electronics & assembly
19:10 - Neck finish talk
21:45 - Strings
22:25 - Sound Demo - Isolated
27:35 - DEMO in a Mix - Baritone solo
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This channel should have WAY more subscribers.
Your voice is soothing. You're like the Bob Ross of guitar building. Happy little single coils LOLOL
if you want to hear the "bob ross" of lutherie check out "twoodford" hes got that bob ross thing going but he usuallly repairs guitars on hs channel
I do love your conversion builds, so much detail and cools ways of showing us how you do it 😊
Sounds great.
That's a beautiful guitar.
Just WOW !! GOOD JOB !
Awesome. My favourite set up. Way to go.
great little project!
Beautiful project, it turned out great!
Awesome build
I love it! Thanks for the video
Love the look of the neck
Absolutely love the video and have been consistently rewatching it for the best 2 weeks. Don’t see many baritone builds on UA-cam. Thank you for explaining everything clearly on your process!
Love the asthetics!
Just found this channel and the quality of content is insanely good. Brilliant video, looking forward to more!
awesome work man
Very cool
top shelf content
I absolutely love that pickguard color over the off white.
The build looks class! I've actually been considering doing something very similar, I have one of those Subzero bass VI's that I sometimes use with a jazz trio but I'm not a fan, a Strat style seems perfect for this kind of instrument. Good to see those Ebay necks are quality too!
Awesome video! I’m so glad I came across this. I have a strat body with swimming pool route sitting around that I planned on converting to use a hardtail. Once I get that completed, I may do this. I’ve been wanting a baritone.
Great content. Awesome job 👍👏
You have a very smooth voice
I admire you, Mark. Building your own guitar! All that work. 😮🙂👍🏻👍🏻
Very inspiring!
Awesome built thanks for the video \m/
I've been wanting to re finish my Squier mustang neck for that fender neck look and this is perfect! vintage clear and satin nitro! definitely buying these! awesome baritone build by the way! 👌
i love your content so much man, absolutely amazing stuff. super relaxing as well!
That cardboard pickguard would be also damn cool. I love this build and it sounds awesome in the mix!
SO FUNNY! I bought the same neck and received it today!
You are the guitar whisperer. 😂
I bought one of those DIY double neck stratocaster kits and I converted the bottom from regular guitar to baritone with just a set of strings and a baritone neck. I used guitar fetish Texas specials pickups. It turned out great.
Which baritone neck?
@spastickitchen - Just some baritone neck I found on ebay.
@@TomTobin67 oh, is it the one with the carbon fiber pickguard and holographic boobs on the neck plate? You have comments turned off on the video, but I'd love to see a follow up video. Looks like a 28" baritone neck? You ever get it adjusted to be playable?
@@spastickitchen yep! Boobs etched on metal is a good thing.
Awesome !!! I got a Walnut Jaguar Body lying around collecting Dust. You inspired me to make it a Baritone as well. Great Channel, keep going 👍
Cool! Going to build a bass vi soon myself.
Your channel is so cool!
That's awesome Mr.G. I really want a baritone. Yours looks like a high end one. ❤
Commenting before watching it is freaking gorgeous! 😍😍
Super nice. I picked up one of the Cabronita Squire Baritone Teles a few years ago, but have always considered doing one DIY. Maybe this was the inspiration I needed! Great Video Mark, and subscribed.
Good video, I'm learning a lot from this channel.
Mark can write music as well as build guitars!!I LOVE THIS CHANNEL!he needs to make a soundtrack to showcase his songwriting chops
Cool Vid! I built a 30 inch Tele bodied Bari a couple years ago and I can hardly put it down. It's Pearl Lime Green with a hint of GoldBurst on the front, and Pearl Eggplant Purple on the back and neck. Did my own abalone inlays. Hipshot tuners and bridge. Aluminum strip body binding. DiMarzio D-Sonic in the bridge and DiMarzio Evolution in the neck...talk about tone! It's a beast. I call it the *Tele-Baller Booty-Caster.*
You can see it on my channel along with a couple other builds.
This is cool! It seems you're going for more of a Bass VI, than a baritone.
Look into Curt Mangan Bass VI strings. You'll love them!
it was the goodbye horses vibes that did it for me..
lmao
About 6% of your scale length for the bridge pickup. I've just strung my scratch build 28.625" scale 7 string. You may also want to look at the spacing for the neck pick-up vs the original 25.5" scale neck position, and try to get that closer to the neck itself (it means the pickups spread a little which I didn't pickup during the video).A little less neck break angle at the neck pocket with moving the bridge and scale. Easier with a CNC but possible without just take your time and be accurate and planned. Awesome build.
New subscriber! Great great great video! Thank you
Just discovered your channel and I am staying.
Really nice build. I would call it a Bass VI more than a Baritone Guitar. Cool outro jam in a 80' 'heroic' style.
i dont agree with everything you say but god damn when imm having a bad day your voice helps put me to sleep
Very inspiring! Watched this more than once now-I might do similar. I’m guessing it’s not strictly necessary to move and re-route the bridge and middle pickup. The tone would just shift a bit warmer with these 2 pickups being pushed a bit forward from the bridge. I’m thinking I might try this at first, that way a noob like me doesn’t have to route anything, and I can use a standard pick guard, or a “loaded” one ready to go. Then if I don’t like it, I have the option to move the pickups back closer to the bridge later.
I’m thinking of doing this on either a hard tail Strat or Tele. I think the same neck maker does a 30” 24 fret T-style neck as well. I might consider installing a top mount Xtrem with roller bridge-easy install.
Sparking lots of ideas!
I was just looking at this exact neck I’m pretty sure… going to to try and put it on a squier jazzmaster I have.
Hello, I really enjoyed the music at the end 👌! Where can I listen more of it ? Thanks
Cheap… if you have a CNC and know what you’re doing. So slick though. Happy this video got recommended!
UA-cam has been recommending this video to me for the past couple of weeks, and today I finally gave it a go. I have to say: instant subscribe. Baritone have been on the back of my head for a while now (mostly because of The Bunn, a Canadian UA-camr / sludge guitarist that advocate heavily pro-baritones). Anyway, loved the song you did on the end of the video. Loved the build, your video setup... thank you for your work!
Wow! I love this! I want one!
Do you do anything like putting a kit together for customers? I’d love one without the tuners or electronics.
I wanted to do something similar but concert an SG style short scale bass to resemble an EB6. Wish Epiphone would do a version of those, it would be a cool competitor to the fender stuff
LOVE it dude!! You should build and sell these! Haha
If you tune this E to E it's not actually a baritone, this makes it a bass.
Also, the middle pickup being RWRP has nothing to do with tone, it just makes the in between positions hum cancelling. But pedantry aside this is an amazing build. I wish I had a CNC machine! I have so many ideas, but I don't have the practical woodworking skills to realise them.
amazing!!! and u like tom delonge!!! W
Great video, very inspiring, thanks.
As a Shapeoko III owner, subscribing for more CNC content.
Such a cool build! I've been wanting a Bass VI type guitar for a while now, so it's cool to see how easily one can be made. I'm curious, was there a reason that you didn't go for the Bass VI set of strings from Stringjoy? They have a sets with .90 or .95 6th strings available.
Hi. I remember reading through the description of the two packs of Bass VI sets they sell. I wasn't happy with the idea of an increased tension set. I ran the numbers of their balanced set through their string tension calculator. I wasn't happy either. I think I just wanted a custom set that would would for drop running. At lease that was my original plan. I ended up tuning to E. So in the end, I could have just picked up that Bass VI set.
That is just fucking insane. On the outside it's so clean but it was so simple. I could build one of these!
You noticed that about Fender jacks too. ✌️
Great vid and great build! Totally didn't just inspire me to order one of these necks and actually learn how to use my CNC properly. Nope. Totally didn't just happen.
Awesome build brotha!💪🏽 Do you sell custom made pick guards by any chance?
You can skip to the very end to hear the baritone in a mix. I think you can tell by my facial expressions that this guitar is loads of fun.
Cool build man ! I personally prefer a 36 inch scale Bari stringed with 00,8 to 0,38 strings tuned to C.
If the only thing you played was at 28 min till end was worth it that , that was so good !
I love this ibanez headless ehb series bass and i recall it has a shortscale version, in your opinion would it be possible converted into a 7 or 8 string baritone headless guitar? 😂
30" is huge. I'll bet it could support A Standard tuning like a champ. Interesting. Thanks for sharing.
It is actually tuned in E. Like 6 strings bass. Beautiful build but... not a guitar anymore.
Always thought about doing something like that for playing The Cure covers, since I can't really get a real Fender VI (or even the Squier one).
Fender super 250’s are a bass vi set with guitar ball ends, 100-24 gauges, and all strings wound. Oh, and they’re only like 18 bucks.
Killer build mark. Can you turn up the lighting in your studio? Hurts my eyes on iphone
Awesome video Mark! What is the drum sound you used for the music in your vid?
The drum sound was from a drum module in VCV Rack. I can't remember which one.
How fun was that?! very cool vid.
Whoops just ordered one of those necks 🙃
Lido is import spec from what I remember. Did you buy a standard 30" scale neck or did you have to get import spec?
Dude you build a bass vi just get a vi bass set of strings. Loved the video keep up the good job
awesome video! I did my first ever jazzmaster build/assembly with an all guitar fetish parts (except graph tech nut) this month and it was so much fun. I'd love to see you explain how you design and model in CAD.. did you have to design that body in cad prior to making the adjustments? or did you use the standard import spec strat body since thats what LIDOs are cut to?
For this build, accuracy of the body wasn't important. I literally downloaded the body off of grabcad. Wouldn't matter if the specs or dimensions were off cause I'm designing off of the center line with an origin point at the center of the end of the neck pocket. So even if the body wasn't a perfect match to the model, the center line is the same on both and I just used that has the origin point for the CNC.
I had a 28 5/8” Warmoth Strat. It was very pretty (black Limba body, ebony over Wenge neck), but not for me. Made money flipping it, and was without a Bari until last week, when I picked up a stock P90 Cabronita. 27” is the ticket for me.
Sweet and easy. 1. Go buy me a CNC machine. 2. Go buy some cheap guitar parts. 3. Go buy some flowers to look at and fondle before I start. 4. Buy a drill press.
my idea is to build a baritone neck with +2 frets in a standard 25.5 inch body. I went to stewmac fret position calculator and went by trial and error until I got 28.62 inches, which you get from fret 2 to the other 26 frets the same distance between then, plus the "negative" frets from nut to 2nd. It will have the same distance between a standard neck, but will be like standard E tunning from 2nd to 26th fret in a 25.5' and more 2 semitones from nut to 2nd fret in a 28.62'
Replace the ceramic magnets with neodymium. There's a guitar myth-buster guy on youtube that made his own homemade neo pups as well as an alumitone, AND a bigsby setup that you can dive bomb. Long story short, neos have the clarity and focus of the best alnico, with the power and bass that they lack, particularly on single coil pups. Slightly light on the windings+N52 neo magnets = great sounding pups instead of cheap ceramics.
This is almost ASMR material :-)
How about a Piccolo bass project? :-)
For the bridge and bridge pickup, could you have used a top-load Telecaster assembly that is flat?
That would allow you to use a cool Telecaster bridge pickup on a Baritone, AND, it would cover the original string-through body holes.
Sounds cool, I think I might try it.
I really enjoyed your content, Thank You
EDIT, Additional thought, I'm pretty sure they make stack single coil humbuckers with ceramic magnets, just a thought if high gain is a consideration.
Great idea. I hadn't thought of that. A top loading tele bridge would have been much easier.
@@MarkGutierrez SO many options available these days. I remember trying to find guitar parts back in the late 1970s, I was usually ordering by phone and mailing in a money order! 4 weeks later the part arrived! My gosh how times have changed.
Your Baritone turned out great, thanks for sharing your build with us.
Hey, this is a really cool build. I'm currently in the process of converting an old LTD M-10 into a 27" scale baritone. Coincidentally I bought a very similiar neck from eBay with the blocks and the 70's style headstock. One question I have though, when CNC'ing the new pickup cavities, would it not have been easier to just route a "swimming pool"?
Yes. A swimming pool would have been much easier.
@@MarkGutierrez props on the build though! Really class looking. Hope mine ends up even half as good as yours
Hi Mark! Fantastic build. I watched a few times, and maybe I missed it, but could you explain what is going on when you are CNCing the heel of the neck? I'm assuming you had to modify it so that it would fit the import strat spec pocket. Did you have to modify the length, width, or depth?
Hi, I only had to modify the thickness of the neck heel. It was a little too tall by about 2mm. I just shaved off 2mm. that's all.
Thanks so much. Knowing that, I would much like to try the same trick, just without a CNC.
Ok, so I have all of my parts. Routed the pickup cavity freehand, making my own pickguard, and putting the parts together. I see why you removed material from the heel. I didn't, and the height on my bridge is set at max. Still fully playable. My neck certainly doesn't look as pretty. Lots of little cosmetic flaws. But functionality is perfect. The body is actually great for the price. So, for a litle over $160 usd, I now have a quite decent bass vi/xl baritone. Thanks so much for posting this video, Mark. BTW, I love your other videos too.
@@spastickitchen so cool!
Would like to try this with a $60 unifinished strat style kit off Amazon, so that I can Shou Sugi Ban my own finish on it, as I used in my van conversion ceiling...
He has lots of stuff in his stash. I find that sentence funny. Simple pleasures. 🙂🙃🤣✌️
Stringjoy allows you to make custom sets of whatever you want, you know that right? They even have a present Bass VI set that is exactly what you built there
How does your partscaster baritone compare with your firefly FFJA baritone? Do you prefer the humbuckers or the single coils for a baritone?
What is the difference between a baritone and a Fender VI? Baritone is low B, and the VI is a low E an octave below?
Pretty sure thats a squire vi neck great way to get a custom vi .
Bluddy great. I have bought (I believe) the same 30" neck - but the skunk stripe was loose. The guy gave another 25US off, which was cool. What do I need to watch for when trying to re-set & glue the stripe? This will go on a custom tele body with only single mini-bucker in the bridge....or should I look at a neck pup too? Really cool to see this vid, man. Love from Scotland!
fairly easy fix. I would use a vey thin super glue instead of wood glue. amzn.to/3QkzFNW that way you can set the stripe in first, clamp if necessary and flood it with the super glue. It will set in fast. Once dry, scrape the excess with a razor blade, then fine sand. Don't worry about glue getting on the truss rod, it will have no impact on it. Good luck, have fun!
@@MarkGutierrez Ok man, thanks for the reply and advice!
A not-inexpensive project I have done the line, but a similar goal is down the line for me.
I’m going to buy a 30” scale Bass VI neck from Alef guitars (I’m big into aluminum guitar stuff right now) but just build the body myself out of reclaimed wood.
Single humbucker in the P position.
I’ll need to put some sort of counterweight in the bottom and futz with the strap button positions for best comfort for whatever body shape I go with (which will also be designed for best comfort for my playing style and position).
Metal is heavy, yknow?
Also, you can do a full custom set from stringjoy.
I’m doing that for my current guitar project. 13.5-60 balanced tension for DADgad at acoustic tension. I love maximum effort strings.
Hello i was wondering why you changed the place of the bridge, what would happen if you didn’t ?
Also the guitar looks really nice I’m gonna try to make one with the same neck
There are conversion baritone necks which allow you to install them without moving the bridge back. This particular neck was a Bass VI type neck which required the bridge to be moved.
@@MarkGutierrez thank you for your answer
Great setup you got going on there!
The guitar sounds amazing as well!
What pickups did you use?
Another question, I'm new to all of this, would not the length of the neck be good enough, rather than shifting the bridge and pickups?
If not, why not?
I also noticed that you did some cnc work on the bass of the neck, with the cnc, there's no audio only music, I'm not sure exactly what you did?
Hi, I used the cheapest ceramic pickups available on the market. I pulled them from an overseas guitar. Warmoth makes conversion necks that retrofit on any standard scale body. This neck is not a conversion neck, it's a traditional 30 inch neck, so we have to move the bridge back. Conversion necks avoid this by compensating the build of the neck outward, so the necks are longer toward the headstock. CNC work on the heel was to shave off 2 millimeters.
So anything over a 30" neck would be considered baritone, that's measuring from the nut to the bridge?
Do the tapers on those stringjoy strings end up behind the nut? I'm planning a build like this and was worried about what type of bridge to use (string through vs top load) due to the winding potentially not reaching all the way to the nut with normal non-baritone strings.
Beautiful build - curious - tuned to E or B?
Tuned to E.
Those thin wound strings (especially 1 and 3) will go off pretty quickly. A few month top, playing a couple hours per a day.
How do I get you to modify a body and cut out a pick guard for me?