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Dingwall Owners Club

I’d be super interested in what kinds of weight range the various Dingwall models have. For myself, I’ve found that my D-Roc and 2 D-Birds (all four-string models) are within 0.4 pounds of each other (8.06 to 8.46 pounds), and all four of my six-strings (three NG3s and a Z3) are within a half pound of each other (9.5 to 10 pounds, with the Z sitting at 9.81), and I always find myself wondering what we’d see if we had a LOT of data to pull reasonable averages from.
my combustion 6 is slightly over 10lbs
 
I’d be super interested in what kinds of weight range the various Dingwall models have. For myself, I’ve found that my D-Roc and 2 D-Birds (all four-string models) are within 0.4 pounds of each other (8.06 to 8.46 pounds), and all four of my six-strings (three NG3s and a Z3) are within a half pound of each other (9.5 to 10 pounds, with the Z sitting at 9.81), and I always find myself wondering what we’d see if we had a LOT of data to pull reasonable averages from.

My Z3 6 string is 10 lbs.

My current NG3 5 string is 9 lbs.

I previously owned a 6 string ABZ that was 8.5 and a 6 string ABI that was right at 9.
 
So is anyone starting a spreadsheet!?!
Sure, why not.

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Piano black Super P 4 string, single pickup. I assume it’s an alder body, maple neck, Birdseye fretboard. 7.5lb.

AB-1 4 string, two pickups, alder body with flame maple top, maple neck, wenge fretboard: 7.5 lb

Dbird 4 string, one of the few imports that made it, blue purple colorshift paint. Mahogany body, maple neck, 8.5 lb

All passive basses.

From memory…

Super pj 4 that was very light, under 8 lb

Super PJ 5 ash body 9 ish

AB 5 maple flame over alder, maple and wenge two pickup around 8lb

AB 6 maple flame over alder, maple and wenge, two pickup: just under 9lb I thought that was awesome for a killer six string.

The ash Super PJ (jazz style body) was the heaviest at over 9.

AB 4 string the lightest by an ounce or two than the Super P4 at 7.5 .
 
I think you have to break it out per model

With an ongoing avg weight at the bottom of each column 😈
Plenty of time to do that after initial data gathering is done.

This is already interesting, since I had only guesswork to go on for any D-Bird/roc other than a 4, and for any of the AB/Z/combustion type body that isn’t a 6, due to the limitations of my particular collection.
 
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