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Whats to heavy

#82
Adhesive_X said:
anything over 10 makes me think twice. It would have to be something really special to get me up to the 12 lbs mark
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I feel pretty much the same. I'm a kid and have time to reach my physical peak, but I will have to be very partial towards a bass for me to be willing to play it should it be over 10 lbs.
kodiakblair said:
Here in Scotland 12 cans of beer weighs 13.2lb. Nobody complains about that :thumbsup:
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You don't play half hour-3 hour sets with a 12 pack slung over your shoulders. Then again, you are from Scotland, so I could be wrong about that one ;)
 
#87
Rollin Thunder said:
I go scuba diving up in Scotland, 22kg (40 twin set) of steel and 10kg of lead weight on my shoulders on and off the boat and up and down the harbour. Not going to compose about a piece of wood.
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I with you on that. As I'm pushing 50 I made a concession at work and got a shoulder harness for toolbelt. Spend 8-10 hours a day climbing scaffold with 40lb hanging on me.

It's a relief to come home to a mere 12lb T-40 :thumbsup:
 
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#89
Joe Ty said:
I was dumbing it down a little. The point was that most beers finish with a specific gravity negligibly higher than water. Most of us home brewers expend considerable effort getting that gravity as low as possible. I for one can't stand under attenuated beers.
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Yup and your main point was well made that it added a tiny amount to the overall weight.
 
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#90
Flaked Beans said:
I still play my 12+ lbs basses (after 4 decades) but 8-9 lbs ones are perfect for me! That's why I bought my EBMM Stingray and my american standard jazz bass (both are 9lbs). However the '08 blizzard pearl am. std. jb sounds different than my 12lbs '78 ash jazz bass (pic above ^) but I like them both.
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But unfortunately my 5 and 6 string basses are heavy! For example my Pedulla MVP6 weighs 13 pounds!
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I played a 1979 pre Ernie Ball Stingray for 37 years and it was well over 10.5lbs, the first two years of it's life had three necks fitted, faulty truss rods, the last neck was a Sabre, it lasted the longest, but it too ended up twisted and also needed a re fret, it now hangs on the wall. I got myself a Sire V7 4 string and it's 9 lbs. The neck is a dream to play and for the money a well built bass.
My Musicman.jpg Sire V7.jpg Oh, I also use a Comfort Strap, that's a big help for the shoulder and back.
 
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#91
magic8161 said:
Is it me or am I a wimp? I like a bass 7 to 9 pounds max. Anything else to me is just too heavy. At my age I'm starting to get that heavy bass shoulder pain.....lol
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*too

And yep, you're a whimp lol

I honestly like basses a little on the heavy side. Because I hate basses that flop around when I dig in or play slap style, granted part of that is the body shape and balance. But there's a limit for everyone. 15lbs is too heavy Imo. I typically like basses around 10-11 lbs.
 
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#94
8 1/2 lbs is good and less than 8 lbs is better but my comfortable upper limit is 9 lbs.

This has nothing to do with straps or fitness. It's where I am at this point of my life. Fortunately in my weight range I have the pick of some of the best basses in the world.
 
#96
Joe Ty said:
No, we cannot. The English invented the system in Europe. We didn't tell them to discard it.
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Actually the English didn't "invent" metric weights, the English "invented" Pounds and Ounces (Quarts, Hundredweights, Tons, etc. alongside Miles, Furlongs, Yard, Feet & Inches for distance). Imperial units - Wikipedia

The decimalised units of Grams and Kilograms (alongside kilometres, metres and centimetres for distance) were a European thing, and were in use for hundreds of years. History of the metric system - Wikipedia
 
#98
JIO said:
10 lbs is my limit - around 8 is my preference. 10+ is a deal breaker no matter how cool it looks or how good it sounds. Life's too short to 'make do' with something "because". YOMV
(and it's "What's too heavy?")
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Yeah, my preference is around 8-8.5lbs - anything lighter doesn't feel right, and don't typically care for 4 strings that are much over 9lbs... I'll go up to 10lbs for 5 strings, but anything much over that, I tend to get rid of...
 

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