1960s Gibson EB-0 Baritone Electric Guitar Conversion

While this isn't the first bass-to-baritone-guitar conversion we've done (we've done a lot of them, as it turns-out), it's perhaps one of the coolest. This is an old '60s EB-0 body that came as a husk. The owner sent repro tuners, pickups, an aged pickguard (for an SG an needing a bunch of recutting), and an original bass bridge.

Ancel put this whole thing together for a friend of the shop and it was mighty effort as these jobs sort-of entail -- all the old tuner holes and divots on the back of the headstock needed filling, the giant old pickup rout at the neck needed filling, two new pickup routs needed cutting, the wiring needed to be done, the bridge and its posts needed to be modified and moved-around, an then you have to get into the fretwork and setup-side, too. It sounds like not a whole lot "on paper" but as soon as you move into 3D it gets quite crazy

Anyhow, it turned-out an absolute gem. I think the coolest thing about 30" scale baritone guitars is that you can use normal-ish strings (these are 49w-11 with a wound G) to tune B to B and slightly heavier (54w-12 with a wound G) for A to A tuning. This has low-enough tension that the thing sounds excellent but also plays like a guitar rather than a sort-of stubby bass feel like your average baritone guitar.