What are your lightest/heaviest basses?...

[Watchootognbout]

Six string basses,in general,are not light.

My Fretted TWB63 10.5 lbs
Fretted G Style YB100 10.5 lbs
Fretless TWB63 10.7 lbs

 

[Shawn Luckman]

Lightest is my 1964 Hofner Violin Bass. My most prized possession.

Heaviest is my 1986 Peavey Foundation. Still a great bass to play though.

And my 2014 Am.Std Precision is in between the other two. And the one that gets the most play time.

 

[bassdude51]

Lightest is a Warmoth P Bass build @ 7lbs 3 oz. Oh I wanted so badly to get into the 6 lbs range! I already have all of the lightest parts installed. I'd have to get an Alumitone pickup to crack into 6 lbs.

Heaviest. A Warmoth solid Koa body J Bass with a Warmoth full rosewood J neck. About 10 lbs 7 oz. I could get some light weight tuners and dump the Schaller roller bridge and probably drop into the high 9 range.

Sorry, no photos.

 

[G On Bass]

My Wilkins Cayenne (Roasted) at 7.8 pounds:
(Click for bigger pic)

My Custom Unicorn from Mystery Guitars at over 12:

 

[micguy]

Lightest is a Warmoth P Bass build @ 7lbs 3 oz. Oh I wanted so badly to get into the 6 lbs range! I already have all of the lightest parts available.

My heaviest (Warmoth build - these pickups are actually rather heavy things) at 8.07 pounds:

My lightest is an almost P (slightly different shape, also a Warmoth build) at......6.57 pounds (sorry, bassdude51, you don't quite have all of the lightest parts available :

The hardware on this is aluminum - even the knobs, neck plate, etc.

 

[Bebo2020]

Sadowsky rules...

 

[BergerHead]

3,6kg easy traveling:

1/2 ton of pita:
(my badest P ever)

 

[Danny O Danny]

Lightest is my Rob Allen MB-2 at 6.5 lbs.
Heaviest is my NS Design CR Radius at 8 lbs.
All the others are in-between that range.
I've owned some heavy basses in the past (9-12 lbs), but won't tolerate that any longer.

 

[Doctor Intrepid]

I have a bunch of 500/1s. They are all around 4 lbs. The original light bass. The fretless is likely the lightest.

 

[bmusic]

Hofner 500/1: 4lb,3oz
Rickenbacker 4003S: 9lb,7oz

like to keep things below 9

 

[Green Knight]

Peavey T-40/Millennium half-fretless Frankenbass: 11.4
Miller EM4 monocoque graphite bass: 5

 

[sotua]

From the ones I've had:
- Lightest: Yamaha RBX174, I thought it was hollow, that's how light.
- Heaviest: Probably OLP MM2 - Big MM Stingray shape, thick-ish neck, and solid slab elm body. I can only play that bass sitting down.

 

[danesdad]

Lightest: Hohner B2A. Don't know actual weights, but I'd guess low 7 pound range.
Heaviest: Gibson RD Artist. likely north of 11.5.

 

[bassistkll]

These two.

 

[TonyP-]

74 Jazz bass 11.4 lbs
Mike Lull TP5 8.4 lbs

 

[deste]

Lightest: Danelectro Longhorn (of course, a masonite hollow body with frightening neck dive - but its weight was also the reason why I bought it)
Heaviest: of course my beloved 1980 Ibanez Musician (heavier than the seven deadly sins as we say in my hometown), everybody knows...

 

[redwood]

Lightest - Profile pic. strandberg* Boden Prog 5 - 6.5 lbs (a newfound joy for my shoulder!)
Heaviest - Warmoth 5 fretless - 9.8 lbs.

 

[bassliner50]

The weight of my basses is among the least of my concerns. I don't get it.

 

[Bigal1369]

I'm down to 1 bass. So it's my lightest and heaviest.

I have 2 Basses on the way, and 2 in Cliff Bordwells build queue.

My bass is 6.5 pounds.

I'm not counting my Ubass.

Solid, no chambering, perfect balance. Really light swamp ash body.

View attachment 3988804 View attachment 3988805

 

[Bigal1369]

I have CB bass it's 7lbs. M

y is a S bass. Actually my best sounding bass i have. All my baases are under 7.5 Lbs.