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Weigh in!
My new (used) J35 that felt very lightweight, especially after I pulled the LR Baggs Element out of it today. Out of curiosity, I decided to weigh it and its roommate on the digital scale.
2014 Gibson J35 mahogany/Sitka: 3.80 lb 2016 Larrivee SD40 mahogany/Sitka 12 fret: 4.33 lb I am curious to know what your guitars weigh.
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weight a minute
That is very light. Lighter is better, but not so much that it becomes a factor when I choose a guitar; it's one of those things that makes me like it better. Things which affect weight are (obviously) body size and wood selected, but also slot head, tuners, pickup or lack thereof. And of course how it is built; that's the part that has the most effect upon how it will sound.
You asked for examples: here goes....... Appollonio 12 string - 5.3lb (in addition to 6 more tuners, it has a trapeze) Franks resonator - 5.875lb (carries lots of metal) Goodall Jumbo - 4.8lb (lighter woods) Hatcher small jumbo - 4.7 lb Kinnaird 000 - 5.0lb (ziracote and ash contribute, slothead helps) Leach - 4.5lb (small body, but has the folding hardware, and Macassar B&S) MacAllister baritone concert - 4.7lb (llonger neck) National - 7.7lb (all metal but for the big neck, now, that's heavy) Sexauer L00 - 3.5lb! (smaller body, lighter woods + the build)
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The Bard Rocks Fay OM Sinker Redwood/Tiger Myrtle Sexauer L00 Adk/Magnolia For Sale Hatcher Jumbo Bearclaw/"Bacon" Padauk Goodall Jumbo POC/flamed Mahogany Appollonio 12 POC/Myrtle MJ Franks Resonator, all Australian Blackwood Goodman J45 Lutz/fiddleback Mahogany Blackbird "Lucky 13" - carbon fiber '31 National Duolian + many other stringed instruments. |
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I weighed two of my guitars after a high end guitar shop owner poo-pooed my observation that my bras/adir Kinscherff weighed a lot more than my hog/sitka Martin OM-16GT. He said it was all in my head. Well, according to my digital postal scale, the Kinscherff weighs 6.5 lbs and the Martin, 4.5 lbs. Oh, and the Martin is obviously an OM, while the Kinscherff High Noon is a small jumbo.
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My lightest guitar is my Waterloo WL-S which just weighed in at 2 pounds, 15.3 ounces at 60% RH.
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Martin 000-17SM Supro 2030 Hampton Taylor 562ce 12 X 12 Taylor GS Mini-e Spruce/Rosewood Waterloo WL-S Wechter TO-8418 Cordoba 24T tenor ukulele Kanile'a Islander MST-4 tenor ukulele Kiwaya KTC-1 concert ukulele Kolohe concert ukulele Mainland Mahogany soprano ukulele Ohana SK-28 soprano ukulele Brüko No. 6 soprano ukulele |
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Martins:
1889 0-28 ivory pegs 2.77 lb 1895 0-28 slotted head 2.88 lb 1900 00-30 ivory pegs 2.38 lb 1917 2-17 slotted 2.54 lb 1870+/- 1-26 slotted 2.92 lb |
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I don't have a scale to give an accurate measurement, but I can promise you my African Blackwood Lowden is heavier than my Martin of a similar size.
Weight is just one factor. I don't think you want to invest a whole world of interest in the weight - the Lowden is both heavy and spectacular.
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Not you guys too !!
I thought this kind of stuff was only found on the Les Paul forum. |
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Wood type is definitely a big factor. I had in house at the same time a Cordoba C10 spruce/rosewood and a C9 cedar/mahogany, very same guitar just different woods. As you would expect (pun intended) the C9 cedar mahogany was much lighter. I never weighed them but the C9 literally floated in your hands compared to the C10.
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Haha. Except over there the numbers would all be preceded by a “1” as in 12 lbs, 14 lbs etc. Thanks for bringing back memories of slinging a Les Paul over my shoulder with a cheap unpadded strap. Ugh.
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