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11-12-2010, 10:43 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Baltimore,MD USA | | | What is the exact weight of your passive P-Bass?
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Mine is 9 lbs. Weighed it today. It's a 2001 MIM with an anodized pickguard and a Gotoh 201 bridge. Everything else is stock.
I have a fretless that is 8.5 lbs, identical except for a Hipshot vintage bridge.
Neck included.
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11-12-2010, 11:06 PM
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John K Custom Basses | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Thousand Oaks, CA | | | What is the exact weight of your passive P-Bass?
which one? i have four of them.
the lightest is 7lbs 3 oz, and the heaviest is 8 lbs 5 oz. |
11-12-2010, 11:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Baltimore,MD USA | | | 7 lbs. 3 oz. sure is light. What's on it?
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11-12-2010, 11:12 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Dark Horse strings | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Verde Valley, AZ | | | 9 lb. 2 oz. 2006 MIM PJ.
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11-12-2010, 11:12 PM
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John K Custom Basses | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Thousand Oaks, CA | | 1955 restored swamp ash single coil p bass 7lbs 3 oz (w/o chrome cover plates):  |
11-12-2010, 11:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Maryland, USA | | | I'm very curious. Why do some bass players weigh their basses?
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11-12-2010, 11:37 PM
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I've owned over 30 P-basses.
For me, 7.5 lbs, to 8.5 lbs, are what I look for.
This weight is best for the warm, round tone, I look for in a P-bass.
I've had P-basses a heavy as 14.5 lbs.
Big, tone, with big sustain. (these basses had heavy finish on body)
Each bass is different.
If you find one you like, check weight, neck profile, wood.
They all tell a story. |
11-12-2010, 11:39 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Quebec | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Chrisk-K  I'm very curious. Why do some bass players weigh their basses? | Because they know they can't play a 3-hour gig with a 10 lbs bass, so they make the seller check the weight before buying it ?
I have to P-bass, one is a Lakland Skyline Bob Glaud with a hipshot Detuner, the other is a Warmoth 72 P bass body, with a Fender MIJ 57 Reissue neck with vintage style tuners, both are 7.9 lbs. |
11-13-2010, 07:46 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Baltimore,MD USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Chrisk-K I'm very curious. Why do some bass players weigh their basses? | It's a very important spec. A bass can almost never be too light, but can easily be too heavy. Remember, you have to wear the thing around your neck for hours at a gig.
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11-13-2010, 08:00 AM
| | | | It has to do with TONE. Light=resonant=tone. Shoulder comfort is secondary. Heavy may sustain and have attack, but the tone is one dimensional.To me it is uninspiring.
Light: Dimension, singing, air, midrange complexity, extended lows.
Same with guitars, electric and acoustic.
Overbuilt is dead.
Look for light.
My basses weigh well under 8 pounds. |
11-13-2010, 08:04 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Rutherford, NJ | | | 1975 Walnut Brown P Bass Weight 7.5 lbs. (complete with neck dive) Alder body,maple neck. Great sounding instrument!
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11-13-2010, 08:59 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Baltimore,MD USA | | | What in the world could make a P-Bass weigh 14 lbs.?
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11-13-2010, 09:13 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Deaf | | 1971
8.4 pounds
100% stock except for the Dunlop strap buttons.  |
11-13-2010, 10:55 AM
|  | User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: East Coast | | 1982 AVS '57 RI - 8 lbs 
1996 50th Anniversary - 8lbs 12 oz. 
2001 50th Anniversary - 8lbs 4 oz. 
Too lazy to weigh the others.
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11-13-2010, 11:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Land of Lakland | | | Mine is 7.12 |
11-13-2010, 12:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Chester, Pa.,USA | | | My current Squier VM P weighs about 9.5 lbs., I hade a '78 Fender P-bass weighed about 10.5 lbs.
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11-13-2010, 12:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Germantown, Louisville KY USA | | 'Precision' or P bass? My P weighs in at 10.5lbs now... it's a little lighter than it once was... but it ain't heavy.... it's my brother. 
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11-13-2010, 12:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Houston, Tx | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Edward G. What in the world could make a P-Bass weigh 14 lbs.? |
Not sure. I have a p/jj bass that is like 15. Its plywood and like like a 1lb bridge. |
11-13-2010, 01:27 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Orange County, CA | | | My American Standard P5 is 8.5lbs! |
11-13-2010, 03:54 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Boston | | | My 2010 MIA is 8 lbs 8 oz.
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