Help with making my bass light

[MattZilla]

Have a plastic surgeon remove any excess skin and fat from your arm. At the very least, shave off any arm hair.

Ew, hairy fat arms?! Bassists already get a bad rap. Take care of that business asap!

 

[trevcda]

I have been wondering how to cut some weight on my main player

Diet and exercise?

(Never pass up a straight line! )

 

[Iridescentone]

The humor of this thread isn't lost on me, but I have been wondering how to cut some weight on my main player

There's only so much you can do with mods. Maybe get a different bass altogether?

 

[OnederTone]

Is it April 1st already?

 

[jmattbassplaya]

Diet and exercise?

(Never pass up a straight line! )

I deadlift over twice my body weight so I doubt that's the issue

 

[pbass74]

Next thing is to remove the fretboard inlays and the headstock decal if there is one.

 

[fhm555]

The best way to lighten your bass is to build a portable rack on wheels to suspend it from so all you have to do is stand there and play it. Just make sure to make your rack height adjustable so you can use it standing or sitting and also give it individual adjustments for neck and body so you can get your neck angle set where you like it best.
Rig it with spotlights controlled from your pedalboard so you can highlight yourself during solos.
There are many other features you could incorporate to improve the audience experience, i’ve got a very realistic rubber baby with a gaping chest wound that drips blood, hanging head down from mine. I tried hanging actual dead goats from it but it blocked my fans view of me and the smell after a few weeks was atrocious, so i went to something smaller and less organic.

 

[4SG]

3.2 lbs isn't a bass; it's a tennis racquet. or a light saber.

 

[Old Garage-Bander]

I wanted to get help making my bass lighter. I'm at 3.2 lbs, but wanted to see if I could shave off 4 more ounces to get it below 3 lbs.

I started with an old '76 Fender Jazz I almost never play and swapped out the tuners and bridge for ultra light, but it was still too heavy. So I took off the pickguard and did a big route...basically everything that the pickguard and bridge could cover. I also sanded all the finish off and made a belly cut. I left a thin piece on the back, almost like a thick acoustic. It still seemed heavy so I took the pickguard to a plane sander and got it paper thin. I restrung it with the lightest gauge strings I could find.

It had some neck dive so I sanded the neck and filed down the frets until it felt balanced. Now I'm at 3.2 lbs.

I was thinking of removing some of the extra wire since there is some slack. I don't think that will get me under 3 lbs, though. I really would like to keep both pickups, and don't know if anyone can suggest something lighter than the stock pickups, or if anyone thinks I could get there by removing some of the winds from the coil to get there. I would like to keep the headstock so people know it is a Fender, but that is the only other place I can think to remove weight.

3.2 Lbs?? Have you ever told your boss that "da plane" is coming?

 

[Old Garage-Bander]

Hmmm, you want to convert all of the matter in your bass into light? Maybe try tossing it into an active galactic core supermassive black hole's accretion disk? If that don't do it...

Tossing an old Fender bass into a black hole would be a rad way to relic it.

The Albert Einstein signature bass.
It's so massive it's it's own black hole.
Not even sound can escape.

 

[Old Garage-Bander]

The humor of this thread isn't lost on me, but I have been wondering how to cut some weight on my main player

Buy her more salads?

 

[bholder]

Tossing an old Fender bass into a black hole would be a rad way to relic it.

The Albert Einstein signature bass.
It's so massive it's it's own black hole.
Not even sound can escape.

"In Space, no one can hear you scream!"

 

[rendevouz]

Cut the carbs

 

[Old Garage-Bander]

"In Space, no one can hear you scream!"

Yeah! That's right. How stupid of me.

Is the gravity of a black hole so intense that even stupid can't escape?
If so, I have an application in mind.

 

[ScrewDevil]

Tossing an old Fender bass into a black hole would be a rad way to relic it.

The Albert Einstein signature bass.
It's so massive it's it's own black hole.
Not even sound can escape.

I need one of those! Then no one could hear me suck! Lol

 

[ScrewDevil]

I don't think we were at all helpful to the OP. LOL

 

[bholder]

Yeah! That's right. How stupid of me.

Is the gravity of a black hole so intense that even stupid can't escape?
If so, I have an application in mind.

From all of the evidence I've ever seen, "Stupid" is the one unstoppable force in the entire Multiverse!

 

[golower]

Where does it end ? You may not be happy with three pounds either . Try putting the strap over just your shoulder instead of around your neck ?

 

[IamGroot]

Gravity is your problem here. I understand it's less on the moon, but greater on Uranus.

Uranus doesn't have gravity. It repels things.

 

[golower]

I really have no back problems. My normal basses weigh around 10 lbs. I just wanted to do this to test if it impacts the sound. This is literally a bass I never play, so I thought I'd get some use out of it. I also thought about filling the route with different blocks of wood to see if they change the sound, but that may be too complicated.

Were you trying to take off weight or experiment by adding different wood ? This thread is a useless lesson in futility .