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weight of a squier vintage modified jazz?
- Thread starter Onalargerock
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Mine weighs around 10 lb. I've never found any of them to be light of the ones I've tried in shops.
Roger
Roger
I have other Jazzes, and would agree with that. The VM is the heaviest Jazz I have.
Roger
I know this is an old thread, but thought I would add to it with some detail.
My VM J bass is a 2012 with the maple body (it's a lefty that I've converted to righty), and it had the thick butterscotch coating ("finish"). I found it really heavy. I am used to my P bass, which weighs 8.4 pounds. While I did not weigh it before I "fixed" it, you can see that the available ones on Sweetwater are all around 10.5 lbs.
Seemed to me that there was at least a pound of plastic covering the body...
Long story short, I removed all of that coating from the Squier VM jazz. Heat gun and scraper and muscle.
With 50-105 strings, it now barely tips the scale at 9.0 pounds (4106 grams).
My VM J bass is a 2012 with the maple body (it's a lefty that I've converted to righty), and it had the thick butterscotch coating ("finish"). I found it really heavy. I am used to my P bass, which weighs 8.4 pounds. While I did not weigh it before I "fixed" it, you can see that the available ones on Sweetwater are all around 10.5 lbs.
Seemed to me that there was at least a pound of plastic covering the body...
Long story short, I removed all of that coating from the Squier VM jazz. Heat gun and scraper and muscle.
With 50-105 strings, it now barely tips the scale at 9.0 pounds (4106 grams).
I guess it depends. I have no problems with basses weighing 10-12 lbs. Others won't go over 8 lbs. Just from reading various threads it seems that 9 lbs is the pretty common line. Just my observations.
A heavy bass sucks to play, a light bass, well you get the picture. Exceptions are a Peavey T40, i just grin and bear it.
