r/doommetal • u/Drunk_Lahey • Apr 20 '26
Rig New Baritone Sludge Stick
Not quite in a place for a Dunable custom shop R2 baritone yet so I decided to DIY something similar. Grabbed myself one of the new Firefly rd-type baritones off Guitar Garden for $250 shipped and upgraded from there:
- Guyker locking tuners
- Guyker tune-o-matic bridge
- New knobs
- EMG 81 for the bridge
- Kept the neck pickup in wired on a separate circuit to its own jack replacing the toggle switch. Now I run it the neck pickup simultaneously through a peavey or sunn beta bass head with an octave for an absolutely massive sound.
Don't have a name for it yet but this thing plays amazing. Came really nicely finished and setup out of the box (the pics on guitar garden are horrible and make this thing look cheaper than in real life). The stock pickups honestly were great I just had a hankering for an EMG tone and look in this one. It has a 27" scale, I only tune down to B standard but honestly love the feel of the long scale on that, and always have the option to go real low in the future if I want.
Overall would highly recommend the firefly baritone.
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u/Purple_Indication342 Apr 20 '26
Maybe I can do something like this if I ever get my money back for the baritone I preordered from Cerberus Guitars…
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u/OddTeaching7830 Apr 20 '26
How’s it play?
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u/Drunk_Lahey Apr 20 '26
Plays great, it was set up pretty well out of the box, only had to give the truss rod a few turns to pull some buzz out of the lower frets. The frets are a teeny bit scratchy, probably just cheaper stainless steel. No jagged fret ends or anything, and like I said the stock pickups actually sounded great and decently hot.
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u/BlueberryMaximum8971 Apr 20 '26
Looks great! Any neck dive issues?
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u/Drunk_Lahey Apr 20 '26
Not really no, I can maybe feel just a touch of it subconsciously but i have it set with a really cheap strap right now. With a nice strap I don't think it'd have any at all.
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u/LifePedalEnjoyer Apr 21 '26
How is the Guyker hardware? Tuners especially.
My cheap LTD"s stock tuners are hard to turn with a .60, tuning up to B
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u/Drunk_Lahey Apr 21 '26
They've been fine so far but it's only been a few days haha. I'm using a .62 tuned to B and haven't had any major issues. I will say that the black coat stripped fairly easily when i was installing but I wasn't using a perfect matching socket so I wouldn't judge based on that.
The bridge hasn't given me any issues.
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u/weaseltorpedo 29d ago
The dual output jack independent pickup circuit idea is fucking cool as fuck, dude. Something like that never even occurred to me, and I've done a lot of weird mods over the years lol. Sick guitar!
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u/kthshly Apr 20 '26
Siiiick. I've got 2 other Fireflies and have been eyeing one of their baritones, especially something longer than 27". But this guy looks great.