i generally play a fender strat but i'm not tied to any particular manufacturer - i'd like an instrument that'll last me and that i won't need to do much work to

people like to put baritone strings on the fender bass VI, and i havent done this, but i love my bass VI

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbvb...

I can't speak to stringing it with bari strings, but seconding the VI which I loved utterly.

for reference, this was all just that baritone through effects & using a landscape ferrous (and later became a sonic reference for a Realis group): bandcamp.com/private/N4GR...

been playing a rivolta mondata baritone for the last 4 or so years and absolutely love it, had a danelectro prior but it just didn’t have the resonance I wanted and didn’t feel great to play