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Old 06-04-2020, 06:43 PM
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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

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Old 06-04-2020, 09:29 PM
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My Kinscherff High Noon rosewood/spruce - 6’ 8”.
The Martin OM-16GT - 4’ 8”.
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Old 06-04-2020, 10:14 PM
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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

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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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Old 06-04-2020, 10:19 PM
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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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Old 06-04-2020, 10:30 PM
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There was a thread on the forum back in 2013 where tpbii listed the weights of about 25 acoustic guitars, mostly vintage Martins but also some 90s models, a few Gibson’s, a 70s Yamaha and a Blueridge.

Unfortunately, when I searched for it it didn’t show up. I have a printout of the post but I’m only going to type it all in if people are really interested. Hopefully someone can locate the thread and save me the bother!

At a quick scan through the data the lightest was a 1934 000-18 at 2lb 4oz, the heaviest a 1964 D-35 weighing 4lb 15oz. Surprisingly ( to me at least) was that out of 7 D-18s the heaviest was a 1999 D-18GE.

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Hi Clive, I’m more interested in the weight of lighter Martin guitars like the 1934 000-18 that weighs 2 lbs 4 oz. It seems like these lightly-built Martins do stand the test of time if they are well taken care of.

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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Old 06-04-2020, 11:01 PM
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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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Old 06-04-2020, 11:12 PM
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My Eastman OO weighs #4.2.
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Old 06-05-2020, 03:53 AM
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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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Old 06-05-2020, 07:44 AM
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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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Old 06-05-2020, 08:10 AM
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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.
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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Old 06-05-2020, 08:53 AM
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Wow, impressively light and durable

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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]
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Old 06-05-2020, 09:05 AM
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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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Old 06-05-2020, 09:15 AM
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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.

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Old 06-05-2020, 11:04 AM
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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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Old 06-05-2020, 01:46 PM
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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 .

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