Inexpensive scale for weighing a bass...

[Brad Johnson]

Weighing yourself while holding a bass and then weighing yourself without applies the same percentage of inaccuracy to the bass as it does to you.

You can't weigh a bass directly on a bathroom scale because that will provide the most inaccuracy.
The scale, as wrong as it might be, will be closer to accurate when weighing something that is 200 lbs, then something 10 lbs.
It's not designed to weigh things as light as a bass directly.
Try this. (Someone please check the validity of this method.)

Find something that you know weighs a certain set amount that is close to what you think your bass weighs.
A gallon of water weighs about 8.3 lbs. (use a light weight bottle like a plastic milk jug).
Weigh yourself while holding the jug of water. Note the amount.
Weigh yourself without the jug. Note the amount.
Any difference in the two weights that deviates from the 8.3 lbs is the correction factor.
Determine the % of difference of the correction factor.

Now weigh yourself while holding the bass.
What is the difference between you with the bass and without?
Now apply the % correction factor from above to that difference.
You now have a "good enough for government accuracy" weight for your bass.

Or just buy a cheap luggage scale.

Told you there was too much math.

I just spent $5 worth of my time reading that... more than I spent on my luggage scale.

 

[Old Garage-Bander]

If you know the density of the wood, which makes up most of the weight of the bass, you can use the water displacement method to weigh it.
Fill a bathtub 3/4 full of water.
Mark the water line with a Sharpie.
Submerge your bass.
Mark the new water line.
Measure the distance between the two lines.
Calculate the volume of water displaced.
Apply the wood density factor to the volume to get weight.
Then go buy a new, lighter weight bass.
Don't forget to subtract the displacement caused by your hands holding the bass under water, otherwise the wood will make your bass float.

Know what kind of Wood doesn't float?

 

[lz4005]

It's like the guy in one of today's other threads who irons his underwear.

Once, after an hour long social bike ride with 20 or so people that ended up at a bar, I sat next to two dudes who talked non-stop for half an hour about how many grams every single component on their bikes weighed. Then the conversation turned to the fact that one of them logged his commute to the 100th of a second. Every day. For the past 5 years.

Then he started complaining about how no girls would go out with him.

 

[Old Garage-Bander]

I just spent $5 worth of my time reading that... more than I spent on my luggage scale.

Either you read slow or you have a high rate for billable hours.

 

[Honch]

ironwood

Know what kind of Wood doesn't float?

 

[Old Garage-Bander]

ironwood

Nope. No what I'm looking for anyway.
Hint. This is a decades old, sick joke.

 

[Old Garage-Bander]

@Old Garage-Bander I told them so early on but they wouldn't listen. They don't listen. I bet Waves comes out with a combined capo and scale any day now... they want GEAR to use, but since the least expensive method is that one, it won't fare well with all the GASSERS around here.

Then they'll complain that the scale is giving distorted readings and we'll have to remind them to put in a new battery.
Then they'll say: "But it's a passive bass."

 

[Brad Johnson]

This reminds me of a tone deaf debate with a manufacturer who couldn't understand why people wanted a mute switch on their amp... because the rep just unplugged his bass to tune, so why couldn't everyone else do the same.

 

[Drgonzonm]

I think - by and large - a pentatonic scale is the most inexpensive scale to weigh a bass in. Chromatic is too unwieldy, and cumbersome, and can't go past 12 anyway.

You know there's a special scale for bass players. A diatonic scale, I V,

 

[Brad Johnson]

Either you read slow or you have a high rate for billable hours.

It took a bit more time reading it through the tears.

 

[wneff]

Now, what is the best bathroom scale for weighing the bass you use to play metal?

 

[Drgonzonm]

Now, what is the best bathroom scale for weighing the bass you use to play metal?

industrial beam

 

[AdamK]

Great! I hate having to go to Hardee’s and use their roast beef scale to weigh my instruments.

You mean Arby's?

 

[Coolhandjjl]

You mean Arby's?

I’m old. Hardee’s introduced Roast Beef in 1977 when I worked there in high school. Not sure if they offer it anymore

 

[xnewyorka]

We have one sort of like this one in our kitchen. Ours goes up to 12 lbs. I can't be bothered to go upstairs and see brand it is. But it works great. It shows lbs or kg and is accurate to 0.25 ounces (a quarter of an ounce.) It can measure fluid ounces or weight, so it has all kinds of great uses in addition to just measuring basses, including weighing outbound packages for postage, and of course the intended use in the kitchen. It's still on its original CR2032 battery after about 3 years of fairly regular use.

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[rtslinger]

Not sure how I missed this thread? here is mine works great and it did cost much
21.99 US on amazon

 

[Old Garage-Bander]

I’m old. Hardee’s introduced Roast Beef in 1977 when I worked there in high school. Not sure if they offer it anymore

I had my first Arby's in '69. Cost 59 cents. I'm old too.

 

[Honch]

Nope. No what I'm looking for anyway.
Hint. This is a decades old, sick joke.

Morning Wood?
Oh would I?

 

[guy n. cognito]

Bought a rapala fish scale 10 years ago and it’s serves me perfectly well.

As for this item: Zero reviews from a seller with less than a stellar reputation. Looking forward to an honest, long term evaluation. Not expecting it, but looking forward to it.

 

[tpaul]

Nope. No what I'm looking for anyway.
Hint. This is a decades old, sick joke.

A witch?