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Not sure about that, I just really feel fortunate to have a light BN6.
Hey, I know this one!
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My GFC5 is right in the comfy weight range. This bass is another tone monster as well.
Congrats! I'm one of the only other TB'ers to have one of these. Mine is about 9.75 lbs. Great Basses!
Thanks man, It is a really special bass.
Yours looks great and is in a little better shape then mine.
Your headstock logo is a little different then mine as well.
OK. I'm laughing out loud (LOL) that I started a weight day jubilee. My F weighs 9.2 pounds. How 'bout yours? 
OK. I'm laughing out loud (LOL) that I started a weight day jubilee. My F weighs 9.2 pounds. How 'bout yours?
I have OCD when it refers to instrument weight. I weigh every one when it comes through the door and snap a pic. It's usually the first thing people ask me about after I tell them the specs. I have never once weighed any of my chainsaws.
It's a natural maple neck with a flamed maple fretboard. I'll take better pics and post them when she gets back from Mo's shop.
I have no online photos that make justice to this bass as the ones still in Tom's site, but here is a photo of "Thor". Today it wears to top-matching ramps, between PUs and the bridge
Oh, I don't know...I have no online photos that make justice to this bass as the ones still in Tom's site, but here is a photo of "Thor". Today it wears to top-matching ramps, between PUs and the bridge
I think if I had a photo that had my bass AND George in it, that photo would reign supreme.
Your photo got me curious...My GFC5 is right in the comfy weight range. This bass is another tone monster as well.
All my life I couldn't care less what a bass weighed. To me, whatever a bass weighed was just part of the price I paid to have an amazing bass.
My priorities are:
#1: Tone
#2: Tone
#3: Playability
#4: Looks
That said, I'm now at an age and have had enough health challenges that I feel like if I can have all 4 of those AND a light bass... I'll take it!
That's probably why, when it comes to gigging SIX string basses, I find myself playing my Fbass BN6 Limited Edition Replica more and more:
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For me, 9 pounds, 1 ounce is an extremely comfortable playing weight.
Holy cow that is a light six string!Not sure about that, I just really feel fortunate to have a light BN6.
Is the string spacing 19mm? Or is it less?
By contrast, my other BN6 weighs 1 lb, 1 oz more... weighing in at 11 pounds, 2 ounces.
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At 11 pounds, 13 ounces, my 5-string Fodera weighs almost 3 pounds more than my 6-string Fbass BN6LER.
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At 11 pounds, 13 ounces, my 5-string Fodera weighs almost 3 pounds more than my 6-string Fbass BN6LER.
I could never get to 3... I'm sensitive to poor air quality and the exhaust of 3 chainsaws make my eyes water... making it harder for me to balance on the unicycle.
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