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06-13-2010, 07:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Utopia | | | Weight of your 70's Fender P-bass
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So, how much does your seventies Fender Precision weigh?
I'll start:
1975 model with maple neck. 4,8 kilograms. |
06-13-2010, 07:28 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Valhalla, I am coming! | | | My '79 is 5 kg = 11 lbs.
Edit: maple/ash |
06-13-2010, 07:38 AM
| | | | My 1976 lefty P Bass is ~8.5 lbs. It's definitely lighter than my '05 Stingray.
Edit: maple neck + ash body? (sunburst)
Last edited by The_Cause_Ca : 06-13-2010 at 07:40 AM.
Reason: mistake
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06-13-2010, 07:55 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Virginia, MN | | | My late 70's ash and maple P-bass is just under 11.5 lbs. I played that for many years, doing 2-3 hr sets in a cover band in the 80's.
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06-13-2010, 08:01 AM
| | | my 78-ish is ash and maple and weighs slightly less than a tank. its also just as powerful. true story: actually pulled it out of its case one time and a spider had spun itself a little web right over the pickup and was just chillin there. it went nicely with the blood and sweat stains (I refuse to clean it).  |
06-13-2010, 10:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: SLO County CA | | | I believe my '75 A-necked P is just under 9 lbs.
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06-13-2010, 10:49 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Seweracuse, NY | | | I have a 1973 that is light, right around 8lbs.
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06-13-2010, 11:02 AM
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I've seen some as heavy as 14-15 lbs.
And as light a 7.5 lbs.
I prefer ones around 7.5-8.5 lbs. BTJM. |
06-13-2010, 11:07 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Metro Detroit | | | Mine has a maple neck. It's 8.5 lbs. '79 serial ('81 bass). |
06-13-2010, 12:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Canada | | | 75 P w/ added J pickup: 9lbs 2oz |
06-13-2010, 12:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: downtown | | My '77 P is pretty light, just 8lbs!  |
06-13-2010, 01:39 PM
|  | User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: East Coast | | 1970 P Body with added Jazz PU and '66 Jazz neck 8lbs even. Without all those extra PG screws it would probably be 7 lbs. 
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06-13-2010, 02:56 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Central Illinois, USA | | | My '73 natural ash/maple neck was over 13 pounds. Hated that POS.
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06-13-2010, 03:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: SLO County CA | | Quote: |
My '73 natural ash/maple neck was over 13 pounds
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06-13-2010, 03:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Houston, Texas | | | my '73 (natural/maple) weighs in at exactly 12.0 pounds.
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06-13-2010, 03:25 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: boston, ma | | | I haven't weighed mine (don't have a scale in the house) but my fretted 78 P was sold to me as 10.5 lbs, which would make my 78 fretless P about 9ish lbs. Seemed to be between my sterling 5 (about 9.5 lbs) and DJ5 (around 8.5-9 lbs) in weight so that seems right. My 78 jazz feels about the same as the fretless P. |
06-13-2010, 03:40 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: ootah | | 72 p-j, just over 8 lbs. 
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06-13-2010, 03:52 PM
| | | And it THIS corner... 76 P Bass w/brass pickguard and some unknown boat anchor of a bridge weighing in at 10#, 12 oz.  |
06-13-2010, 06:13 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada | | | I refuse to play really heavy Fenders as they just kill my back. I had a 13lb '77 Jazz and HATED playing it!
In any case both of my '70's Precisions are 8lbs. My 1974 fretted (crap brown and rosewood) and 1978 fretless (3 tone SB and ebony) are both great basses and as light as I have seen '70's Fenders.
My 1973 Fender Jazz (exactly like a Geddy Lee) is aldo 8lbs.
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06-13-2010, 07:23 PM
|  | Tolerated User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: State College, PA | | 73 pbass fretless rosewood FB - 8 pounds   | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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