Seizurema wrote:hm. Ideally I'd like the scale length to be 30', so I'm leaning away from bari guitars. I am primarily a gazey bassist so the lows and the drones are very important. This definitely must feel "bass" at least in the lower two strings, the instrument itself is for exploring droney tunings so the top 4 will be changing pretty consistently.
I do wonder if building an instrument is better/cheaper than obtaining a Bass VI or suitable bari sans tremolo and adding it. Ultimately the type of trem doesn't really matter to me so much. Bigsby'd Hellcat could be badass...
Hm... If I did decide to go down the 'build one' path, though, I suppose my main concern is electronics. Specifically my lack of knowledge of electronics. What sorts of pickups for Bass Vi's - historically they've just been guitar pickups, right? Could this be improved upon/Suggestions for godly roaring bassy bari pickups?
They are from what I remember overwound guitar pickups. There is a dude that makes reproductions but they are not cheap..
Here is my only issue with tremafying something... if you don't know what you are doing bad things can happen.. if you have it done it might be spendy
A strat style term system will take the tension I know that and floyds are fun on a bass VI if you want another option then the jazz/jag system . The only down side to sticking a bass neck and a guitar [which is fun 
] is where the neck pickup will be.. on a "real" bass vi it is up further cuz they didn't use a 24 fret neck which is what you must have to convert a guitar into a bassvi 21 fret 25.5" scale guitar body + 24 fret 30" scale bass neck [has to have the fb end at the bottom of the neck not overhang] = poor man's bass vi 
