Tele baritone conversion neck.

[Alm_63]

Guy's what do people think of a baritone conversion neck for a T kit.
It would be a 27.5" neck, and tune down to B.
Any thoughts.

[ultpanzi]

Itd work but make sure you add a couple of frets to get the scale length right. From memory, from 25" to 27" youd need to go from a 22 fret to a 24 fret to maintain the scale length.

[Alm_63]

Two U.S. Companies make them but they hellishly expensive. $29US +

[wokkaboy]

Hey Bruce, the bridge may have to be moved back further from the neck pocket to compensate for the extra scale length. That means the pickguard that comes with the TL kit would have a big gap between the bridge plate and pickguard

[BenWA]

if you used a shorter bridge like the one on the deluxe/thinline youd be ok

[Gavin1393]

Itd work but make sure you add a couple of frets to get the scale length right. From memory, from 25" to 27" youd need to go from a 22 fret to a 24 fret to maintain the scale length.

Not sure this is correct...

Your longer scale length would imply only that the distance between the corresponding frets on a guitar with a shorter scale length would in turn be shorter than a guitar with a longer scale length. A longer fretboard could of course accommodate more frets on the board but the number of frets doesn't influence the scale length at all. For example a 12th fret on a 25" (or 63.5cm) fretboard would sit around the 31.75cm mark. A guitar with a 27" (68.6cm) fretboard would have the 12th fret at around 34.3cm.

Hence the only place you could add the frets would have to be on the headstock to keep the guitar in tune. Extending a 25" fretboard to 27" would give you one horribly out of tune guitar?

[dingobass]

To simplify this, Baritone necks are basically the same scale as a Bass neck from the third fret down.
Ie, third fret becomes first fret.

[pablopepper]

Just to clarify, Bruce and Ultpanzi are talking about 'conversion' necks not standard baritone necks. These are designed to be a straight swap for a regular scale guitar and have their fret positions calculated accordingly.

[wokkaboy]

ah ok Pabs, if the scale length doesn't change then it will bolt straight in fine. But if you bolt on a 27.5" scale neck then the body will need mods ie neck pocket shifted forward or bridge moved away from the neck pocket
@ Gavmiester, your new avatar, didn't realise your pink limo is convertible and has cream upholstery !

[pablopepper]

ah ok Pabs, if the scale length doesn't change then it will bolt straight in fine. But if you bolt on a 27.5" scale neck then the body will need mods ie neck pocket shifted forward or bridge moved away from the neck pocket

Nope. The whole idea of these necks is to be able to bolt on with no further modification.