Weight Weenies - PSA

[Mr_O'B]

Good. Very informative. Taking stuff off of something makes it weigh less. Sweet.
Thread title is offensive. A lot of people have physical limitations or preferences that work better for them.

I have physical limitations, but I wasn't offended by the title. With or without physical limitations, I won't own a heavy bass.
If dudes prefer heavy basses, I say go for it!

 

[Lowendtech]

I have physical limitations, but I wasn't offended by the title. With or without physical limitations, I won't own a heavy bass.
If dudes prefer heavy basses, I say go for it!

For sure. But it's still an unnecessary and ignorant way to start a thread.

 

[Basta-bass]

Le royal cheese...
;-)

 

[GretschWretch]

Yep, and it's very important to remember that we are all as big a name as Anthony Jackson and we can tell everyone we work with that we either sit or we don't play, and bandleaders will love us anyway.

I think that those of us who are Greek or Eastern European will have the biggest names.

 

[rojo412]

Cut off the top part of the body... it's only there for show anyway

 

[GretschWretch]

Good. Very informative. Taking stuff off of something makes it weigh less. Sweet.
Thread title is offensive. A lot of people have physical limitations or preferences that work better for them.

So instead of "Weight Weenies," you would prefer "Frankly Speaking"? How much hot-dogging can this thread take?

 

[Basta-bass]

Thought, they discontinued the Royal Cheese...
:-(
Too bad... I liked it...

 

[Medicine Man]

Get an inflatable bass and enable the milli vanilli bass in your lame click track.

 

[bobyoung53]

I just discovered that removing a jazz bass pickguard + thumb rest + screws will take away roughly 1/4 lb.

That is all.

Weight Weenies!

 

[chadds]

If you removed the tuners as well, I'll bet you could shave off at least another 3/4 pound.

LOL!!

 

[micguy]

April is a heavy month, everyone agrees. Try your heavy basses in May, much better right?

February is (at least where I live) when basses are their lightest. During the winter, due to the dry air drying out the wood, basses will lose about 10 or 20 grams, compared with August. I accidentally ran across this - I have very good records of my basses' weights, and when I went to change something that might change the weight, I weighed a bass before hand, and...it's lighter - why? Oh, it's February.

 

[Lowendtech]

So instead of "Weight Weenies," you would prefer "Frankly Speaking"? How much hot-dogging can this thread take?

 

[buldog5151bass]

@TideSwing Let me bring a hacksaw, and I'll knock two or three points new off your bass.

 

[Basta-bass]

Careful with that axe Eugene...

 

[31HZ]

But what does your backup bass weigh?

 

[Basta-bass]

But what does your backup bass weigh?

It depends, of course, when it's on its stand: nothing! But on the other way, when I play it, it's no longer the backup... it promoted main player...

 

[Passinwind]

The best knobs for metal? None. Who knew?

Every weight weenie?

 

[JimmyM]

@JimmyM, on a serious note, I won't buy a heavy bass! The heaviest bass that I own weighs 9.2 lbs., and my lightest weighs 7.5 lbs.
I also require that all of my bass have good balance. I don't have to do the extra stuff, because I select my basses wisely and I don't settle!

The heaviest bass I have is 9.5 lbs and I avoid it like the plague. Mostly because it's a 5-string but its weight sure doesn't attract me to it. Unfortunately, I bought it when I was strong and could hold a heavy bass all night long with a crappy little seat belt strap. But nowadays I'm a lot more selective. Still, any way I can figure out how to make a bass lighter, I generally do it, although I'm not lightening up my Fenders any more than they are (both clock in right around 8.75 lbs).

 

[lowphatbass]

The heaviest bass I have is 9.5 lbs and I avoid it like the plague. Mostly because it's a 5-string but its weight sure doesn't attract me to it. Unfortunately, I bought it when I was strong and could hold a heavy bass all night long with a crappy little seat belt strap. But nowadays I'm a lot more selective. Still, any way I can figure out how to make a bass lighter, I generally do it, although I'm not lightening up my Fenders any more than they are (both clock in right around 8.75 lbs).

I don't discriminate on weight but I do on balance. 8 3/4 is darn good on a "Fender" bass but I personally wouldn't want to go much lower.

 

[JimmyM]

I should mention as someone who's very much a weight weenie, I'm not offended by the term, and I've come to embrace it and its cousin "weight wuss." I will, however, poke merciless fun at all the jocks on here who think they've got something on anyone because they play a 15 lb bass all night and think it's just a matter of working out and anyone can do it. Even if I could do it, I'm not about to, so you can save your dick-sizing contests for people as insecure as you.