i was thinking about ditching my american strat because i like my warmoth a lot more. Ive always wanted a baritone guitar and was thinking about slapping a warmoth conversion neck on. Ne1 ever done this? would it sound ok with stock american standard single coils?
I would have thought you'ld need to put different pups on because your core frequency range will drop some with baritone tuning.
Don't know for sure but as most makers of replacement pups offer baritone spec units......
Get a second precut scratch plate and load it with new pups/controls etc. If you end up not liking it, you can sell the conversion parts on and have the Strat back to original so no loss of value is involoved.
JM2CW
I've been thinking of trying this too. Haven't done it yet because of the pickup consideration spud mentions and because the longer scale just plays different (harder to keep things intonated - not "hard" just "harder")
might put together a baritone tele via warmoth someday... that'd be pretty fun and only two pickups to figure out!
You'll want different pups - definitely. I have a custom-wound dimebucker in mine (along with a custom-wound Seth Lover in the neck - both courtesy of Seymour himself), HOWEVER, the next baritone that I ever get will have Warpigs from Bare Knuckle Pickups in it! :)
because the longer scale just plays different (harder to keep things intonated - not "hard" just "harder")
"Lucy, you got some splaining to do" :) I haven't played one. What's different with them?
throws your muscle memory off a bit.
don't have to bend as much to get as much pitch shift... rather easy to get things out of tune when barre'ing... going sharp on pick attacks is more noticeable. it's a lot like playing a strat with 11s tuned down to D.... sorta.
sounds huge but is tough to control as you move away from the nut.
ironsheep — Feb 19, 2009throws your muscle memory off a bit.
don't have to bend as much to get as much pitch shift... rather easy to get things out of tune when barre'ing... going sharp on pick attacks is more noticeable. it's a lot like playing a strat with 11s tuned down to D.... sorta.
sounds huge but is tough to control as you move away from the nut.
Fuck that! I have of a hard time with a regular Strat :o :( ::)
Sheep, is it the string tension that's off? I've always wondered what the formula would be for finding strings that felt "normal" on a Baritone neck. I fretted a few notes on one at GC once, just to feel the neck, and they felt "rubber bandy" to me, but I don't know how it was tuned. Is that what you mean, or is it something else I'd have to play one to understand?