I have been searching for awhile for a baritone guitar that suits my taste and have not found one yet. After contacting the major guitar parts manufacturers i decided the only way to get what i wanted was to build it myself.
What i'm looking to do is build a Dano style bari guitar out of good woods. I already have an Ash guitar blank from guitarmill, and am going to be puting a spalted malple top on it. What I would like to do is make the neck out of wenge, put a spalted maple board, and headstock overlay. Its going to have a bigsby, TOM and two tv jones pickups.
I have never built a guitar from scratch before, done some refrets, and refins, but im worried im in over my head. I want to make the neck just like the a dano neck with the pitched headstock and stuff.
Has anybody done any baritone guitars here? And how many have used wenge for the neck? As soon as I get all the wood rounded up, I will post a pic of the ingredients.
Thanks for all the insight, I have learned alot just lurking the last couple of hours.
