WHY I STOPPED PLAYING MY BALAGUER BARITONE 

I love watching that low string wobble like a cable on a suspension bridge flapping in the winds of a hurricane 💜

I've held that guitar when I met Ray in San Antonio Texas. It's a great guitar!!! I love how it felt and it sounds badass!. Great memories with Ray!! Thanks Brother!!

I remember when that original video came out, such a sweet looking guitar

DIY bro. Take a file to it and carve yourself an arm contour. If you can repair a Gibson headstock, you can definitely do that. Get the contour nice and smooth with some oil finish on the bare wood. Done.

We haven't forgotten !

hey just wanted to tell you your song Neck Brace is fantastic. That album all 8 string?

Question about this build. Knowing that you love Les Paul's, what if the body had a carved top on it along with the bridge and stop tail piece like a Les Paul? That way, you hand wouldn't have been straight against the body because of the low profile bridge and your forearm would have been hitting the body at a different angle? Your main reason why you stopped playing this guitar is my own as well but I favor Les Paul Custom bodies and thickness and I don't struggle with the forearm fatigue that you speak of because of the carved top and the Les Paul bridge.

The ever bright embraces the fish eye hooks mr Charles

🎸cool guitar🎸

Very much agree about the importance of ergonomics. I have a couple guitars that I just don't play much at all, because they're so uncomfortable. Shame about the guitar, but it sounds like it was a good way to learn what you needed.

I fucking love this dude

Still sounds just as killer as it did before

I've not spent enough time behind a flat top electric to have ever experienced this issue. That's something I've never even considered, actually. Thanks for figuring that out for me. Saves me the time, money, and disappointment.

that baritone is my dream baritone. it's beautiful and sound fucking legit. hey ray

You should get someone to do that forearm contour on it. Make it even more your own.Also look into new pickups for the Squier if they are not to your liking. Great options everywhere.

I totally get it. I came to a similar conclusion of wanting that contour for comfortably playing an extended amount of time.

I've been looking at those guitars lately and was just checking out the Diablo 7 string last night then you post this vid . I really like your guitar too.

Just turned onto your channel..I'm a bass player who wants to learn guitar..I LOVE metal..you make it simple..like I just found out 5min ago that they make a detune pedal..nice..I went out and bought like 4 electric guitars and now I'm like okay..now what to do..love collecting basses and guitars..thanks man

You cant send it back to Balaguer and have them add the contour and refinish it?

You let me play that guitar when you came to Salt Lake City, and IMO it was the best feeling baritone I've ever played.

Your next Cerberus "Sig" is so cool !! Can't wait to see that !! I'm not a Baritone player, but I would definitely play that same guitar in 25,5 ....!!!! It looks so nice !!

The Forearm countor/Sculpting really does make a huge difference on superstrat body shaped guitars. I wish all of my susperstrat shaped guitars had it...

The 29" 7 string Solar is really right on the edge of being too big for me. My 27" Agile 8 was my reference before that, and now that guitar feels small. I guess it's just kinda what you're accustomed to.

Why don't you have Balaguer just edit the guitar?

Good stuff man

this is the issue i have with my harley benton fusion 3 with the emgs in it. its a flat top and i do not enjoy it at all. tried getting over it and try and be comfortable with it, but i just cant get it to be comfortable. im looking at the harley benton baritone but its like 4-5 weeks until its in stock

Thats why I always prefer tunomatics. I don't like the feeling of virtually playing the surface of the guitar

I can't wait for my BALAGUER custom

Man that sucks. I get it. I have an Ltd super strat style body that one of the ‘horns’ makes playing leads past the 15th fret or so super awkward and I hate it because I love the guitar even though it’s a cheapy. I can’t imagine having a custom guitar like that and finding a feature that just didn’t work with you

This is just like my Aerodyne jazz bass. It looks awesome, but there is no forearm contour, which makes it uncomfortable to play.

You like a bit of relic, right ? Go crazy and create the forearm contour !

I gotta have a bevel. I really get it. I struggle with a lot the ESP EC models because of that.

I have a balaguer with binding and a forearm contour. You just have to ask nicely lol.

of all your guitars i want to see rewind of your Dean V 7 string but Balaguer makes killer guitars I really like Kyle Bulls explorer style one

I'll buy it...

Flying V and Explorer sitting down are the best options...

Ray its jus a little bit of wood that bothers you about the guitar, take a side grinder to it.

Bro, do it yourself! Remember your gold top? Not hard to get a sanding block, then re paint the contour in black.

Who dey!

If it’s a keeper just modify it, it’s not ruining it, it’s personalising it!

Get a good luthier to put a contour on it and make it look nicely relic’d in.

Respect name dropping munky 🐒

Can't hear the guitar??Put that thing up

All you had to do was ask them for the contour with the binding 😂😂

Ah yes, the baritone. The guitar for bass players in denial

Carhartt overall rash😂

For a guy who served you sure never heard of the word loyalt 😂 but I guess you could open up a pawn shop and sell all your wares with all your expertise right. Because your opinion matters so much, it’s not like you’re a generic rip off of 2,000 other channels exactly identical to you. And you’re right you def don’t have to practice because all you ever do is run your mouth. run your mouth ray new channel name haha