I was being a little tongue-in-cheek about the tuning making it a baritone ukulele. A few years ago, Rick Turner built me two jumbo shaped Compass Rose baritone-sized ukuleles, one strung GCEA but an octave lower than tenor uke GCEA (Rick's name for it is an "Octave Ukulele"), and a steel string baritone tuned DGBE. Here's the NUD thread for those instruments.
http://forum.ukuleleunderground.com/showthread.php?91213-New-Ukes-Day!-Twin-Compass-Roses I mentioned in the thread that a steel string baritone tuned DGBE was, in essence, a tenor guitar with Chicago tuning. This is what Rick posted: "Mark's steel string baritone is tuned like the top four strings of a normal guitar; D, G, B, E. That is normal baritone uke tuning. That is NOT how a tenor guitar is supposed to be tuned, though some folks do. Normal tenor guitar tuning is as with a tenor banjo: C, G, D, A." I can't find it now, but at around the same time, another thread popped up was a discussion of whether an instrument is designated by the way it is strung and tuned or by its scale and related physical attributes (i.e., is a steel string baritone tuned DGBE a tenor guitar tuned to Chicago tuning or a baritone ukulele?). Rick argued in that thread that as a builder he designates instruments by how they're tuned (which is why he calls the other jumbo CR he built for me an "Octave Ukulele" instead of a baritone that happens not to be tuned like a baritone), and I think it's a builder's prerogative to call his or her instruments what he wants. My Beau Hannam tenor guitar is clearly a guitar (partly because that's what Beau calls it), even though it has uke string spacing instead of typical tenor guitar spacing (where the strings are closer together). I think instruments like this and my CR steel string baritone ukulele blur the lines a bit.