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"On my bathroom scale"
- Thread starter MultiScaleMale
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I use a scale with a 13 pound limit that reads in grams, pounds, or ounces. In pounds mode it displays in pounds and tenths, so i just weigh in ounces and divide by 16. I’ve been ounce for ounce in agreement with my local post office when i ship something priority mail. I weigh the package ready to ship then ask what it weighed when the counter minion at the PO weighs it to confirm my (prepaid) postage and it’s always been spot on with the postal scales so i’m happy with trusting what it reads. I check my bass weight by standing it on the rear strap button in the center of my scale and hold it upright between a thumb and forefinger light enough to not effect the weight, and no complaints so far.
Ugh. Imagine trying to arrange that on a platform like Reverb. What a drag!
I actually have sometimes added language like the following: “Weight estimated at 9.1 lbs. but please note that I will only accept returns if the bass arrives in a condition other than as described. Weight is explicitly excluded from ‘condition’ for purposes of this sale.”
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This thread is the most Talkbass thread I've ever seen on here.
I stopped using a bathroom scale long ago.
I use this.
I use this.
That’s a very challenging song to sing. But if you pretend the bar of soap is a microphone it feels right.
Yeah, I figured a bathroom scale would not be very accurate. I didn't even bother at first to weigh my bass, but eventually did: with me on the scale with/without the bass, and taking the difference.
Measured 10.6 lbs, but will try my postal scale at some point. It is buried behind boxes, for now...
Measured 10.6 lbs, but will try my postal scale at some point. It is buried behind boxes, for now...
Interested in the fish scale method…so those of you using one — you just place the hook under a tuner? No chance of damaging the tuner or headstock that way? Any other way to hang the bass for weighing besides using a tuner?
I have always used the method of weighing myself on my bathroom scale, then me holding the bass, then subtracting, then repeating several times, and then using the heaviest weight as the one I advertise.
My most recent bass purchase was a 2019 American Professional Precision. I bought it brand new, online, from a music store in Maryland who sold on Reverb. Weight wasn’t listed, so I asked what it weighed. They told me it weighed 7.2 lbs. That convinced me to pull the trigger. But I weighed it after receiving it, using the same bathroom scale “me—me plus bass—subtract” method several times, and it weighed 8.7 lbs. I was frustrated, and considered trying to return it, but I really liked the bass, and I have been using it regularly without feeling that it’s too heavy. Just felt surprised that a store would give a specific weight that was significantly off (1.5 lbs!)
I have always used the method of weighing myself on my bathroom scale, then me holding the bass, then subtracting, then repeating several times, and then using the heaviest weight as the one I advertise.
My most recent bass purchase was a 2019 American Professional Precision. I bought it brand new, online, from a music store in Maryland who sold on Reverb. Weight wasn’t listed, so I asked what it weighed. They told me it weighed 7.2 lbs. That convinced me to pull the trigger. But I weighed it after receiving it, using the same bathroom scale “me—me plus bass—subtract” method several times, and it weighed 8.7 lbs. I was frustrated, and considered trying to return it, but I really liked the bass, and I have been using it regularly without feeling that it’s too heavy. Just felt surprised that a store would give a specific weight that was significantly off (1.5 lbs!)
If I were going to hang it on a fish scale - I would use a bungee cord wrapped around the area where a bass hangs on a store hanger. Neck/nut/headstock area. Maybe twice around, and then use the hooks to hang onto the scale's hook. With the vertical cords on the face of the headstock - not the back where it might push the headstock forward awkwardly. I might even go with a rubber bungee cord - just once around the neck. But be ready with your hands out, in case it wants to slip out or something. Then just subtract the weight of the bungee by itself (which can't be much). Please don't support the weight of a bass by one tuner.
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It's easier in Canada. In our measuring system 1 gallon of water = 10lb. I ain't splitting hairs. Most scales have tiny print somewhere saying "not for legal trade"....the disclaimer that it's only guaranteed to be close enough to weigh people, not commercial goods.
I’ve had shoulder surgeries on both shoulders and every “9 lb” bass I’ve bought has weighed at least 10 lbs. thanks for reminding me OP, now I feel bad about myself haha.
Not on the tuner itself.
On the winding post.See post #146
(And no.I do not "shock load" the scale hook)
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I honestly don't see a problem with gebass6's hanging method...
The hook is safely behind the strings, string tension is pulling the peg in the opposite direction of scale, and the bass is hanging straight down.
Just for ha-has, I just picked up my 11+ pound ash PBass by the G peg and it's solid as a rock.
Not to mention, pegs are solid brass...
The hook is safely behind the strings, string tension is pulling the peg in the opposite direction of scale, and the bass is hanging straight down.
Just for ha-has, I just picked up my 11+ pound ash PBass by the G peg and it's solid as a rock.
Not to mention, pegs are solid brass...
To paraphrase the old addage - if you have to ask how much... it's probably too much
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And the peg has been happily holding forty-some pounds of weight for a very long time. Ten pounds in the opposite direction is nothing.
