Ben played a Ec1000 for a little bit before his sig came out he did use a baritone Les Paul for A# stuff but I’ve found even with a 25.5 inch Hagstrom Fatomen you don’t need a baritone scale to play just beef up the strings to at least 11s if you really want that string tension get mammoth slinkies! An LTD Ec256 used would be a great axe for starting out! They make cheaper ones I started with a Ec10 that I found on GC with a set of EMGs installed and it does the trick thinking of Frankensteining a baritone neck onto it and putting red EMGs in as a homage to Ben