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this is gonna rock….second row center….from what I hear they’ll be highlighting the Wetton period…:hyper:…that said, gonna miss Belew this time around..
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PillO said:
If anyone is looking for entertainment of the schadenfreude variety out in the Gen Pop, take a look at "On my bathroom scale" | TalkBass.com
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What's remarkable to me is that so few people have any sort of grasp on how to use a bathroom scale to weigh anything under 50 lbs. and how many people buy into this idea that bathroom scales couldn't possibly be used to give a good weight.

That has not been my experience either now with our "doctor's office" balance scale or back in the day when everyone had the flat bathroom scale with a dial and adjustment wheel. I would calibrate our scales with free weights and set it and forget it.

The idea that you can just plunk a bass down on a bathroom scale, either flat or upright, and get an accurate weight is just dumb and the person doing the weighing hasn't a clue.

The best way to get an accurate weight would be to weigh yourself with and without the bass and do some cyphering. This would get you within a half pound on a flat dial scale and a quarter pound on a balance scale.

I do have a digital luggage hang scale and there's no way to calibrate it so it may be my least accurate scale... I don't know since I've never compared it to my balance scale.
 
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Larry V said:
What's remarkable to me is that so few people have any sort of grasp on how to use a bathroom scale to weigh anything under 50 lbs. and how many people buy into this idea that bathroom scales couldn't possibly be used to give a good weight.

That has not been my experience either now with our "doctor's office" balance scale or back in the day when everyone had the flat bathroom scale with a dial and adjustment wheel. I would calibrate our scales with free weights and set it and forget it.

The idea that you can just plunk a bass down on a bathroom scale, either flat or upright, and get an accurate weight is just dumb and the person doing the weighing hasn't a clue.

The best way to get an accurate weight would be to weigh yourself with and without the bass and do some cyphering. This would get you within a half pound on a flat dial scale and a quarter pound on a balance scale.

I do have a digital luggage hang scale and there's no way to calibrate it so it may be my least accurate scale... I don't know since I've never compared it to my balance scale.
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We have a postage or freight scale that I have used to calibrate balance weights (don't ask). The scale is digital, but I don't know how it is calibrated (don't ask). I have never weighed a bass guitar or any other instrument for that matter.
 
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MCF said:
I read the first post. Up to nine pages? You must be really bored. You've got to get that procedure done and get playing again.
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Yes.

PillO said:
There are two camps. Tensions are increasing and it is only a matter of time until shots are fired and someone goes nuclear...
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So you're waiting on the side of the tracks for the train wreck.
 
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Larry V said:
What's remarkable to me is that so few people have any sort of grasp on how to use a bathroom scale to weigh anything under 50 lbs. and how many people buy into this idea that bathroom scales couldn't possibly be used to give a good weight.

That has not been my experience either now with our "doctor's office" balance scale or back in the day when everyone had the flat bathroom scale with a dial and adjustment wheel. I would calibrate our scales with free weights and set it and forget it.

The idea that you can just plunk a bass down on a bathroom scale, either flat or upright, and get an accurate weight is just dumb and the person doing the weighing hasn't a clue.

The best way to get an accurate weight would be to weigh yourself with and without the bass and do some cyphering. This would get you within a half pound on a flat dial scale and a quarter pound on a balance scale.

I do have a digital luggage hang scale and there's no way to calibrate it so it may be my least accurate scale... I don't know since I've never compared it to my balance scale.
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:thumbsup: Isn't that true. We know that, but apparently isn't not as common knowledge as we think.o_O
 
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PillO said:
There are two camps. Tensions are increasing and it is only a matter of time until shots are fired and someone goes nuclear...
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Flies trying to conquer flypaper........
 
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Larry V said:
What's remarkable to me is that so few people have any sort of grasp on how to use a bathroom scale to weigh anything under 50 lbs. and how many people buy into this idea that bathroom scales couldn't possibly be used to give a good weight.

That has not been my experience either now with our "doctor's office" balance scale or back in the day when everyone had the flat bathroom scale with a dial and adjustment wheel. I would calibrate our scales with free weights and set it and forget it.

The idea that you can just plunk a bass down on a bathroom scale, either flat or upright, and get an accurate weight is just dumb and the person doing the weighing hasn't a clue.

The best way to get an accurate weight would be to weigh yourself with and without the bass and do some cyphering. This would get you within a half pound on a flat dial scale and a quarter pound on a balance scale.

I do have a digital luggage hang scale and there's no way to calibrate it so it may be my least accurate scale... I don't know since I've never compared it to my balance scale.
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I personally don’t find bathroom scales to be any more or less accurate than scales I do anywhere else in the house. Major, minor and pentatonic scales sound about the same to me regardless of where I play them. :D
 
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Larry V said:
What's remarkable to me is that so few people have any sort of grasp on how to use a bathroom scale to weigh anything under 50 lbs. and how many people buy into this idea that bathroom scales couldn't possibly be used to give a good weight.

That has not been my experience either now with our "doctor's office" balance scale or back in the day when everyone had the flat bathroom scale with a dial and adjustment wheel. I would calibrate our scales with free weights and set it and forget it.

The idea that you can just plunk a bass down on a bathroom scale, either flat or upright, and get an accurate weight is just dumb and the person doing the weighing hasn't a clue.

The best way to get an accurate weight would be to weigh yourself with and without the bass and do some cyphering. This would get you within a half pound on a flat dial scale and a quarter pound on a balance scale.

I do have a digital luggage hang scale and there's no way to calibrate it so it may be my least accurate scale... I don't know since I've never compared it to my balance scale.
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This is what I use -

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