Baritone Guitar
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 7:13 pm
Woohoo!!!! I've always lusted for a baritone guitar. I just love the low twang of one. Of course, it's always difficult to justify one to the spouse when it would get limited use. Especially from a bass player like myself.
Enter....the Lotus Strat knockoff! I've had this..this....thing for several years. And it's been relegated to collecting dust since I found a MIM Strat not long after getting the 7-UP green, mother-of-toilet-seat-pickguard, plywood thing. So last week, after another bout of baritone lust, I got to measuring the Lotus' scale versus baritones for sale on-line. What's an inch or two among friends, eh? Surely, it would be worth the cost of strings to just experiment with an unused and likely unsellable guitar.
And this afternoon, for the whopping sum of $7 plush shipping, almost 10% of the original cost of my green castoff, I now have a quite passable baritone guitar! And it now takes its new place in the rack of usable guitars, forever leaving the dusty corner of other broken or non-used junkers in my stable.
Life is exciting!!
Enter....the Lotus Strat knockoff! I've had this..this....thing for several years. And it's been relegated to collecting dust since I found a MIM Strat not long after getting the 7-UP green, mother-of-toilet-seat-pickguard, plywood thing. So last week, after another bout of baritone lust, I got to measuring the Lotus' scale versus baritones for sale on-line. What's an inch or two among friends, eh? Surely, it would be worth the cost of strings to just experiment with an unused and likely unsellable guitar.
And this afternoon, for the whopping sum of $7 plush shipping, almost 10% of the original cost of my green castoff, I now have a quite passable baritone guitar! And it now takes its new place in the rack of usable guitars, forever leaving the dusty corner of other broken or non-used junkers in my stable.
Life is exciting!!
