At long last… the first Baritone Healer! It has a 28” scale length and is tuned B standard like all those lovely Danelectro’s out there. This is also the second Healer for our friend Andrew who was the first person to ask for a neck circuit like a Fender JM and an aluminum pickguard. For that commission I altered the design of the original Healer guard to fit the extra wiring and we’ve used it quite a few times since.
This Baritone has a bookmatched Walnut top, chambered Mahogany body, and a Mahogany neck with a Macassar Ebony headcap, fretboard, and back laminate. The pickguard is raw aluminum sanded to a fine satin sheen to better match up with the Mastery Bridge M7.2
The hard tail bridge allows for top loading strings or through the body. While stringing this one up I found that the tone of the low B and E strings was better strung from the top so it remains that way for now. Maybe it’s the strings, but it really made them ring more clearly, with better sustain too.
We used Jaguar pickups for the neck and middle positions like the classic Fender Bass VI. Then there’s a 12 pole alnico Humbucker under a JM cover in the bridge, all made by Jaime at The Creamery . The humbucker has an awesome cutting mid-range, and sounds great with either the middle, or neck pickup, thanks to the Blender pot in the third spot on the row of knobs. This pot allows you to truly BLEND the Neck pickup with the Bridge or Vice-Versa depending on where you are on the 5 way pickup selector. In positions 2 and 4 all 3 pickups are ON.
