Baritone Conversion Neck :D

[SFDMusic]

Hello!

Today my baritone conversion neck arrived, had it delivered to work - painfully long wait 'til I could go home and stare at it!  "What is it?"  It's a canary neck with an ebony fretboard with no fret markers, 24 frets of happiness.  The body isn't Warmoth - I saved some money (some...) by buying the Strat body from someone in the UK (guitarbuild.co.uk).  Dead happy with it - had the body for ages it seems, still need to finish it.  The plan is to have a 'sawn off' black scratchplate, a chrome pickup surround at the neck and the Dimarzio Crunch Lab (Bridge) and Dimarzio Air Norton (Neck) will be wired to a 3-way normally with one volume pot, a phase switch and a tone switch.


So yeah, in short reading forums made me buy a Warmoth neck and now here I am! Onwards!

~ Andy

 

[keeper006]

Have you heard the Crunch Lab? It's one of the few Dimarzios I have not found much background about, but from the Dimarzio's site specs, it seems like one I would like with the stronger bass...

 

[SFDMusic]

I've not heard it yet, I took a gamble - figured if Petrucci has them in his Baritone then it'll handle the bass well and he has them on his regular guitars too so should take whatever is thrown at them.  I don't play like him at all but it seems like a safe bet.  Have fitted Air Norton's to Ibanez RG's in the neck position so I'm confident regarding that one. At the time I bought them a few years ago they were a gamble, I had Evo's in the bridge on them too which were quite toppy but sounded great.

Should hopefully have this guitar up and running in about two weeks so will report back with soundclips and such when I've taken it for a spin   

 

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4000 x 2250 size pic's .............  you have got to be kidding me  :doh:

I highly suggest you use Photobucket or alike.
To a size of NO bigger than 1280 X 960.

Got no idea how here even aloud that size attachment.  :dontknow:

Sorry I can't comment on the guitar, because it's a blur from here.
ccasion14:

 

[SFDMusic]

Ah no, sorry about that - will resize next time I take pics and upload them or use a site as suggested. 

 

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Sorry my silly  :doh:
I can just download attachment, can see now at a better size.

I'll have the one on the right  :headbang:

 

[SFDMusic]

:headbang:
It's going to be mighty - now I just need some nice weather at the weekend so I can get my finish on the body.  The neck is... beyond gorgeous.  Going to take some getting used to the scale length but the wood.  THE WOOD! It's the smoothest

 

[swarfrat]

The attachment folder is filling up, and these are still huge. 2.8MB?

 

[SFDMusic]

1.64mb-ish and 1.2mb-ish. The restrictions mentioned were: "3 per post, maximum total size 9000KB, maximum individual size 3000KB" so I thought that these'd be ok, other than the pixel-size issue since pointed out to me and taken on board.  If it's a problem then someone can remove the post and I'll come back with something more appropriate later down the line

 

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The attachment folder is filling up, and these are still huge. 2.8MB?

Hey SFDMusic this is what he is referring to, please have a read  :icon_thumright:
http://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=19447.msg286904#msg286904

http://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=19447.msg287031#msg287031

 

[SFDMusic]

Pictures removed, will use Flickr and throw some on there when I've finished putting everything together.  Sorry for the trouble  :rock-on:

 

[musitron]

I have a 28" scale baritone and I've got Dimarzio Breed pickups in it, and could not be happier.  The bass is full but not overwhelming, and doesn't make the amp 'fart' at high gain, and mids and highs balance it very well.  The coil-tapped neck is quite piano-like in the baritone range.

I'm sure the Air Norton will work quite well also, but I've been in love with the Breeds.  Don't know much about the other pickup listed, sorry.  :dontknow:

http://www.dimarzio.com/pickups/humbuckers/breed-neck

http://www.dimarzio.com/pickups/humbuckers/high-power/breed-bridge