When I worked at Westwood Music, I was doing baritone conversions in 1989 by taking whatever guitars clients would bring me and re-topping them and putting on new 27" scale fingerboards. The first was for a guy named Tim Ray, the second was for Jackson Browne, then Bernie Leadon, Stephen Bishop, and a couple more. They had absolutely nothing to do with electric baritones.
However, the real antecedents would be Stella 12 strings as per Leadbelly and Mexican bajo sextos. Once again, this has nothing to do with electric guitars or six string basses.
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Rick Turner
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