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Inexpensive scale for weighing a bass...
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Now I did, and yes, it's about the same, branded Fuj:tech. Really useful for, um, weighing things.
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I use just an ordinary bathroom scale: first I get weighted myself, then with a bass. Not very elegant yet practical. If you already have a bathroom scale, of course.
These are great because they were built for bass!!!
The only mistake to avoid is releasing your bass into the river after weighing
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I use my OXO kitchen scale. It indicated that my Jazz Bass was 9.7 pounds so I sold it and bought a G&l L 1K.
It does not matter if the scale is off by 20 lbs.
Step on the scale with and without the bass. The difference will be 100% accurate.
anything after "I hate having to go to Hardee's" is redundant
I have a regular digital scale, and it didn't weigh the bass. I went for a kitchen scale then.
Like it is some dope, or pot that you'll weigh... c'mon I am completely accurate with 1 kilo split in 4 parts. The lower the weight the less accurate a scale becomes. And too heavy too. If a bass (the instrument, not the fish) weighs like 4.250 grams, I can't whine and bicker, if it's one gram over at 4.251 it'll show 4.500 grams.
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FWIW I did once a test on a 5:er that had too many wraps around the tuner posts at the headstock. Unwrapped them, and cut them and put them back in with just a half turn around the post. The residue, leftover where all coiled up and left on a letter scale. They weighed - together - more than ONE HipShot UltraLite Tuner. This heft b-string coil weighted the most. And people complains about head dive...
That's not accurate enough for me, and you'll just have to accept that fact.
1/2 a pound makes a pretty big difference.
Incorrect, if you weighed it ten times it would show 5 different readings.
Why are so many fighting the idea that bathroom scales are inaccurate?
This happens every time the subject comes up & my bathroom scales are still just as inaccurate as the last time this subject came up.
1/2 a pound makes a pretty big difference.
Incorrect, if you weighed it ten times it would show 5 different readings.
Why are so many fighting the idea that bathroom scales are inaccurate?
This happens every time the subject comes up & my bathroom scales are still just as inaccurate as the last time this subject came up.
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Jolly good. What type of Henge do you prefer? Sedimentary stone is traditional of course, but I find that some igneous variants can have better resonant qualities.
Agreed.
A couple weeks ago I wanted a rough idea of how much my StingRay weighed. So I weighed the same bass 5 times using the bathroom scale method and got 9-12 pounds. I calculated the average and got just under 11 pounds which felt about right. But a PITA to do, much rather get a scale like the OP bought.
As for how I got an average of 11 from 9-12, the bass weighed in at 9, 10, 11, 12, 12 (not in that order). Add those then divide by 5, you get 10.8 pounds.
