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Martin 1900 00-30
2lbs - 9.75oz Red spruce top thickness 0.075" to 0.090", average about 0.085" 43,800 days without implosion [IMG][/IMG] Last edited by JonWint; 06-04-2020 at 07:11 PM. |
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My Kinscherff High Noon rosewood/spruce - 6’ 8”.
The Martin OM-16GT - 4’ 8”.
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Wow! A 120-year old Martin guitar that looks amazing for its age! Is it a family heirloom? Any story to go with this 00-30? What’s its b/s made of? Any pictures of its back?
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Martin 00-15M (2019) Yamaha FS5 Red Label (2019) Faith Venus Blood Moon Burst (2018) Taylor GS Mini Koa (2017) Martin LX1 (2009) |
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Here’s a couple of mine @ 48% RH
Yamaha LL16D — 4 lbs, 14.3oz Martin D-35 — 4 lbs, 12.5oz Martin 000-18 — 3 lbs, 10.9oz
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Martin D-35 Martin 000-18 |
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Interesting Data!
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Here’s the weight of a few of my guitars that I’ve weighed: Martin 00-15m. 3 lbs 6.6 oz. GS Mini Koa. 3 lbs 11.1 oz Faith Venus Blood Moon Burst. 4 lbs 10.2 oz.
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Martin 00-15M (2019) Yamaha FS5 Red Label (2019) Faith Venus Blood Moon Burst (2018) Taylor GS Mini Koa (2017) Martin LX1 (2009) |
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In conjunction with Wade’s remarks as to the weight of a Les Paul or a banjo compared to guitars, well my 12 string banjo weighs in at an ooffff 11.4 lbs (which I play sitting down) .... makes my guitars lightweights!!
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Custom Breedlove 12 string guitar Breedlove Deschutes 6 string guitar Deering 12 string banjo Custom Emerald X20-12 guitar |
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My Eastman OO weighs #4.2.
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Currently two Gibson AE LG2's in the house @ 3.4 and 3.6 lbs.
My Yamaha LS36, englemann/EIR, 5.1 lbs is the porker, but I love it. All 3 very resonant, beautiful tone. |
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Im a died in the wool Strat player and I think they range around 7 lbs whereas my Kronbauer acoustic is 4 lbs 14 oz. Different woods, different thickness of them, different bracing make the difference in acoustics. A builder a long time ago told me when I was asking him to lighten the guitar as much as possible, "tone is in the wood". His theory is that a guitar with more wood has more tone. I think that is true given the same builder but it is the builder that makes the tone. For example any Lowden and any Taylor, totally different.
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Believe it or not, 7 lbs is considered a rather light strat unless it's a hard tail. I recall someone took a large sampling of early 60s strats and they came out to average 7.75 lbs.
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Wow, impressively light and durable
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^ To be fair, a turn of the century Martin was originally shod w/ gut, and can only take very light steel strings.
The real test of durability would be one of the first steel string Martins. Esp. those initial OMs, w/ the longer scale and uber light builds.
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Here is the data provided by ‘tpbiii’ in the 2013 thread.
Hope I’ve transcribed it without any errors! Will post some of my own data from guitars past & present later. Regards, Clive. |
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I had a Martin and a Oahu Jumbo stored together for some months.When I got them out of storage the Martin was considerably heavier than when it went in.
Turns out the Oahu had gotten it pregnant!. |
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Here is the data for my own guitars, past and present:
That metal resonator has only ever been surpassed by a Les Paul 9lb 2oz and a 70s Precision Bass 9lb 5oz . Regards, Clive. |
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