is this a baritone guitar?

[Pacafeliz]

hey there!
a guy i know is offering to sell me this old guitar he found somewhere, and i believe it's an old teisco or so. he sent me some pics and i don't know if it's a baritone or not... it's got only 20 frets but still looks quite big.



any way i could know for certain without "raising too many flags" for him? thanks!

Pat.

[wardpike]

Can you find out what the scale-length is?

[theworkoffire]

I'd be very surprised if it was. I think it's just the short neck that's misleading. I've had a very similar guitar and that was standard scale.

[mongoose]

There were some similar guitars produced that had (approx) 27" scales, and were indeed able to do B-B baritone tuning. Just hard to tell from that pic.

[WV17dajaglover]

Put a human hand next to it.

[Orang Goreng]

Measure the diameter of the strat knob in the picture for scale (I guess it's standard size?), then measure the distance 12th fret-bridge and calculate the actual distance based on the knob size. It may just be inaccurate enough to completely send you into the woods .

[WV17dajaglover]

ask him to send you a pic of the string length being measured

[Pacafeliz]

ask him to send you a pic of the string length being measured

yes i'll do that... seems to be the most reasonable thing to do, from the start, eh?
thanks all!

Pat.

ps: that's the robert smith jazzmaster pickups, right?

[mongoose]

ps: that's the robert smith jazzmaster pickups, right?

Not quite. The one's on Smith's JM are a bit wider (not the location of the polepiece screws):



I had the exact pickups (but with black tops) in my 1966 Kingston (Kawai), reproduced here by MUTT GUITARS:



I'll bet they do sound great though!

[Pacafeliz]

he measured, and it's a normal scale guitar.
will think about it.

thanks!

Pat.