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NB(aritone)D: Bronco Baritone conversion
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2013 4:45 am
by mastermorya
I hired Chris Jury, a great builder I know from the Electrical Audio Forum, to convert a Squier Bronco that I acquired for cheap to make this:
He painted the headstock and pickguard, put GFS high output lipsticks in the original pickup position and in the new one he routed, wired in series, put new tuners and string trees in, a new nut, and a new bridge. It sounds great. I kind of want to re-write all my songs for baritone now!
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2013 4:46 am
by cobascis
Awesome! Squier 51 will match it nicely.
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2013 12:38 pm
by Nick
Beautiful!
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2013 2:11 pm
by Ankhanu
Gorgeous!
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2013 4:37 pm
by robert(original)
cool cool, how did he plug the og tuner holes? i ended up doing something similar for a guy (aen) on this forum a few years ago, but i used a jaguar body, and a bronco neck.
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2013 6:55 pm
by mastermorya
I'm not sure, but I'll find out.
Got the family out of the house this morning, put the baritone through a smallsound/bigsound mini od into my Traynor YSR-1, into a 2x12 and 2x15. This beast sounds enormous. I'm really happy with it.
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2013 8:41 pm
by theshadowofseattle
Super rad!
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2013 8:49 pm
by BobArsecake
Looks ace!
Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2013 2:19 am
by mastermorya
robert(original) wrote:cool cool, how did he plug the og tuner holes? i ended up doing something similar for a guy (aen) on this forum a few years ago, but i used a jaguar body, and a bronco neck.
Per PRFM Chris Jury: "Maple dowel- glued in, then sanded flush, then a mahogany veneer on the face."
Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2013 6:10 am
by moore65
Hopefully if I have time this summer I will do something similar to my Bronco, except I'd do a Bass VI and tune it E-E. It certainly won't look as nice as yours though. I do love that all black look you have, especially with the matching headstock. That just makes that bass freakin HAWT
Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2013 9:28 pm
by brainfur
dang thats fuckin cool
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 7:33 pm
by theshadowofseattle
The headstock is so big that I'd almost like to see one done with 3 on a side tuners.
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 4:11 am
by redzebra6
I leave for awhile, come back, and see this. Makes me regret a little poutting in a Model One in my Bronco bass.
That is killer.