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Heaviest Bass You've Ever Owned?
- Thread starter L. L. Elwood
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Spector Euro 5 with solid maple wings. About 10lbs.
B.C. Rich USA ST, also maple, and also about 10lbs.
B.C. Rich USA ST, also maple, and also about 10lbs.
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In decades of owning dozens of basses, I've ever put one single bass on a scale.
German Warwick Corvette Fretless 4, it had a Bubinga body and neck. It had huge tone but it was 11pounds 14 ounces. It was brutal but the band leader had at the time insisted I use it. But the guy was an a%$hole and I think he insisted because of the discomfort level I had. Now I have a fretless EBMM Stingray special 5H that weighs 7lbs 15oz, and a fretted version that's 7lbs 14 oz and I couldn't be happier. I used the fretted Ray last night and after a 3 1/2 hour New Years gig it didn't bother me at all. Happy New Years all, may we all prosper and stay healthy, and gig every now and then
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I refuse to weigh my basses but the newest one to me is also my heaviest...
1979 Ibanez Musician
Someone modded it in its life and added the split coil pickup.
I rewired it, leveled and polished the frets and set it up.
This bass is one beautiful and heavy hunk of woods!!
1979 Ibanez Musician
Someone modded it in its life and added the split coil pickup.
I rewired it, leveled and polished the frets and set it up.
This bass is one beautiful and heavy hunk of woods!!
The heaviest bass that I've ever owned and weighed was my late 90's Warwick Thumb NT 6. Beautiful instrument, all that wenge, bubinga and ebony, weighed 12 lbs. 2 oz. Worst neck dive of any bass I've ever had. At the same time I had a 2003 Thumb BO 6, and it weighed 11 lbs. The BO was much more comfortable to play, and sounded better. It was all ovangkol.
In 1980, I bought a brand new Music Man Stingray. Never weighed it, but it was probably at least 12 lbs. I was a young, reasonably fit man in those days, but that bass was painful to play for very long.
In 1980, I bought a brand new Music Man Stingray. Never weighed it, but it was probably at least 12 lbs. I was a young, reasonably fit man in those days, but that bass was painful to play for very long.
74(?) Les Paul Recording model. Sounded great, but it was like wearing a station wagon.
I owned this behemoth of a bass! 13.26 lbs! Cocobolo is heavy & beautiful!
My aluminum bass is 13.5 lbs or so
Sounds pretty heavy tooooo
Sounds pretty heavy tooooo
My Fender 2014 American Deluxe V Jazz..it is only slightly heavier than my '83 Peavey T-40...For the record, my T-40 is the lightest one I have ever owned.....both basses are comfortably playable on stage too - comfortably enough where I dont have a need to complain about their weight so, either both these instruments are on the lighter end of their respective spectrums, or some of you guys on TB own instruments that can generate gravity wells 
My first bass, bought used in 1980. Kramer 450B. Easily 12+ pounds, and a neck diver. But what did 18 year old me know?
It saw many a mod, some good, some not so good. Tons of good times.
It was my only bass until 2006, the year I found Talkbass. Many a bass has come and gone since, and this one finally found a new home a few years ago.
Nowadays, 8.5 is my upper limit, and only because the Peavey Cirrus is so awesome. 7.5 is more like what I’m after.
Both my Dingwall AB1 four string and Super P 4 are 7.5.
not my pool….
I had a Fender Roscoe Beck Sig V that was likely just under 12 pounds and an Ibanez BTB 5 (that I did literally more than 1,000 gigs with) that was just over 12.
