I've never really gotten the point of Santa Cruz's Bob Brozman baritone. For one thing, If the guitar was made to Bob Brozman's specs, it was built primarily for playing slide. As Santa Cruz quotes Brozman in their blurb for the guitar, "It is a veritable LAP-PIANO!", which indicates to me that he plays it lap style just like he does his Dobros and Nationals and Weisenborns. Well, with all due respect to Richard Hoover and crew at SCGC, what makes for a good slide guitar doesn't necessarily make for a good regular guitar. How many people do you see flatpicking "Salt Creek" on a tricone?
For another thing, the SCGC folks' comment about the folks at Elderly putting regular Medium gauge strings on it doesn't wash at all. For one thing, Santa Cruz's own specs for the guitar recommends light gauge strings. The whole idea of having a 27" scale length is so that you can use a regular set of strings at regular tension and be tuned a couple of steps lower than standard. You should only need special gauge strings if you are going to try to get the sound of a baritone out of a guitar with a regular 25 1/2" or less scale length.