The weight of our guitars

[Konfyouzd]

And watch him toss them around haphazardly

 

[JoeyBTL]

Anyone think a heavier guitar makes for better tone or vice versa? Mahogany guitars (obviously LPs) are usually very heavy so you'd think they keep it that way because of it sounding good, but my PRS Santana SE is all mahogany and it's the lightest guitar I have. Its extremely resonant and loud acoustically.

 

[Mprinsje]

Anyone think a heavier guitar makes for better tone or vice versa? Mahogany guitars (obviously LPs) are usually very heavy so you'd think they keep it that way because of it sounding good, but my PRS Santana SE is all mahogany and it's the lightest guitar I have. Its extremely resonant and loud acoustically.

i don't think it makes for a better tone, it's all down to opinion man i've got a no-name strat made out of shitwood that's weighs almost nothing, and i'll have that over a epi LP every day

 

[chopeth]

so none is going to help complete this list, I'm afraid...

 

[emperor_black]

ok, I'll weigh my Jackson guitars this weekend.

 

[Cyntex]

Weighed mine

Ibanez rgd2120z 3.5 kg
Ibanez s5470 3.5 kg
Schechter Jeff Loomis 4.2 kg (hellraiser body)

still gonna wiegh my jackson and ltd

 

[chopeth]

ok, thanks jacksons, schecters, esps, agiles, all of them are welcomed!

 

[Duke318]

Sometimes a heavy guitar can indicate a high moisture content. I had a really heavy all mahogany guitar that sounded thin and bright.

 

[emperor_black]

Jackson RR24M - 3.2 KG
Jackson DK2T - 3.3 KG
Douglas 6-string - 3.0 KG
Ibanez Artcore AF-75 - 3.1 KG

Lets get some bass numbers as well.

1987 Charvel Bass 2B - 4.5 KG

 

[Nile]

Dean Metalman Bass - 88.2KG

 

[Floppystrings]

I weigh seventy point three kilograms.

My dad was confused as to why Les Pauls weigh so much. I said look at how thick the center part is, but he is still is disbelief.

 

[M3CHK1LLA]

mine weigh 154 lbs all together...

 

[Jinogalpa]

interesting thread, here's mine:

Jackson COW 7: 3,3 kg
Epiphone ES335: 4,0 kg
ESP Edwards DIE Sig.: 3,7 kg
ESP Edwards Alexi Sig.: 3,3 kg
Fender CS Stratocaster: 3,6 kg
Paul Reed Smith Santana MD: 3,8 kg
James Tyler Studio Elite: 3,2 kg

you feel EVERY gram the guitar weights more on your shoulder
my next guitar will weight about 3,0 kg

 

[chopeth]

- AXL sro - 3 Kg
- B.C. Rich Beast NT (no battery) - 4.2 Kg
- Crafter SA - 3 Kg
- Collins LP90BK - 4.0 Kg
- Cort cr-280 vb - 4 Kg
- Cort EVL X4 - 4.15 Kg
- Cort Z44 - 3.7 Kg
- Cort KX101 - 3.3 Kg
- Cort m600t - 4 Kg
- Cort M LTD- Sp - 3.9 Kg
- Cort VX-4X - 3.95 Kg
- Cort Zenox z42 - 3.8 Kg
- Charvel San Dimas - 4.1 Kg
- Dean B.Zelinsky Venom - 2.9 Kg
- Dean B. Zelinsky Bolero - 3.8 Kg
- Dean Avalanche One - 3.8 Kg
- Dixon Strat HSS - 3 Kg
- Douglas 6-string - 3.0 KG
- Eagle SPE 2280-N - 4.5 Kg
- Edward E-AS-105SM - 3.5 Kg
- Edward E-HR-132III - 3.5 Kg
- Edwards E-LP-92CD - 3.9 Kg
- Epiphone Les Paul Special II - 2.8 Kg
- Epiphone Les Paul Black Beauty - 4 Kg
- Epiphone Les Paul Standard - 6 Kg
- Epiphone Les Paul Standard plain top - 3.78 Kg
- Epiphone Les Paul plus top - 4 Kg
- Epiphone Les Paul custom (MIK) - 4.3 Kg
- Epiphone Les Paul Standard (MI Czech republic) - 4 Kg
- Epiphone SG G-400 cherry - 3.2 Kg
- Epiphone ES335: 4,0 kg
- ESP Eclipse - 3.1 Kg
- ESP Edwards DIE Sig.: 3,7 kg
- ESP Edwards Alexi Sig.: 3,3 kg
- Esp Ltd EC-200 - 3.2 Kg
- ESP Ltd EC 401 - 3.93 Kg
- ESP LTD m100fm - 3.6 Kg
- Esp Ltd mh400nt - 3.3 Kg
- Esp Ltd Mh-1000 - 3.7 Kg
- Esp Ltd Viper 10 - 3.740 Kg
- ESP M-II (+ battery) - 3.4 Kg
- Fame Forum IV - 3.7 Kg
- Fame Forum Custom Spalted Maple - 4 Kg
- Fame Forum III (alder) - 3.5 Kg (aprox.)
- Fender American Standard Stratocaster - 3.7 Kg
- Fender American Standard Stratocaster (2004) - 3.7 Kg
- Fender American Estandar Stratocaster (2009) - 3.6 Kg
- Fender American Standard Stratocaster (2012) - 3.4 Kg
- Fender MIM Stratocaster - 3.6 Kg
- Fender Eric Jhonson Stratocaster - 3.75 Kg
- Fender SRV Stratocaster - 3.77 Kg
- Fender Stratocaster Eric Clapton Signature - 3.75 Kg
- Fender MIM Stratocaster Roadhouse - 4.1 Kg
- Fender CS Stratocaster: 3,6 kg
- Fender Telecaster standard - 3.8 Kg
- Fender Telecaster Highway One USA - 3.4 Kg
- Fender Squier Strat - 3.732 Kg
- Gibson ES 335 DOT Plain EB - 3.9 Kg
- Gibson Explorer'76 - 5.8 Kg
- Gibson 1965 Firebird VII - 4.22 Kg
- Gibson Flying V 68 - 3 Kg
- Gibson Les Paul '59 junior 2008 - 2.9 Kg
- Gibson Les Paul Custom - 4.5 Kg
- Gibson Les Paul custom 1983 - 4.7 Kg
- Gibson Les Paul Custom 1990 - 4.95 Kg
- Gibson Les Paul Custom black beauty 1974 - 5 Kg
- Gibson Les Paul Custom 57´ Black Beauty - 4.25 Kg
- Gibson Les Paul Standard double cutaway plus - 4.5 Kg
- Gibson les Paul Studio Faded (2010) - 3.4 Kg
- Gibson Les Paul Standard (2005) - 4.1 Kg
- Gibson Les Paul Standard (2011) - 3.7 Kg
- Gibson les Paul Studio (2007) - 3.4 Kg
- Gibson Super 400 - 3.7 Kg
- Gibson SG Standard 2008 - 3.375 Kg
- Gibson SG standard 2010 - 3 Kg
- Gibson SG special faded - 2.9 Kg
- Gibson SG '61 - 3.5 Kg
- Gibson SG '61 2009 - 2.8 Kg
- Gretsch Electromatic Pro Jet con Bigsby - 3.5Kg
- G&L legacy tribute - 5 Kg
- Harley Benton HBS200 - 3.2 Kg
- Ibanez AM93 - 3.320 Kg
- Ibanez art120 - 3.8 Kg (aprox.)
- Ibanez Artcore AF-75 - 3.1 KG
- Ibanez SAS32FM - 2.49 Kg
- Ibanez sa260 fm - 3.0 Kg
- Ibanez SB 70 - 3.2 Kg
- Ibanez S520EX - 3.625 Kg
- Ibanez RG270 - 3.7 Kg
- Ibanez rgr321ex - 3.1 Kg
- Ibanez rgd2120z 3.5 kg
- Ibanez RG350DX - 3.75 Kg
- Ibanez S - 3.3 Kg
- Ibanez s5470 3.5 kg
- Ibanez RG3120 - 3.75 Kg
- Ibanez RG420 (1987) - 3.7 Kg
- Jackson COW 7: 3,3 kg
- Jackson RR24M - 3.2 KG
- Jackson DK2T - 3.3 KG
- Jackson Sl3 - 3.9 Kg
- Jackson WRXT Warrior - 3.4 Kg
- James Tyler Studio Elite: 3,2 kg
- Lag rockline 1990 - 3.3 Kg
- LAG ARKANE 1000 (+ battery) - 3.52 Kg
- Parker FLY Deluxe - 1.92 Kg
- Peavey Raptor International Series - 4.5 Kg
- PRS Custom 22 - 3.2 Kg
- Paul Reed Smith Santana MD: 3,8 kg
- Schecter blackjack SLS C-7 (+ battery) - 3.705 Kg
- Schecter Hellraiser C-1 Black Gloss - 5 Kg
- Schechter Jeff Loomis 4.2 kg (hellraiser body)
- Squier Bullet - 3.2 Kg
- Squier Affinity Stratocaster - 3.2 Kg
- Squier Affinity Telecaster - 3.2 Kg
- Tokai LC53 - 4.5 Kg
- Tokai LS370 - 4.4 Kg
- VGS Select Cobra Black Cherry - 4.3 Kg
- Vantage Strat HSS - 3.5 Kg
- Vintage V100 AFD Paradise - 4.3 kg
- Washburn Wi66v - 3.55 Kg
- Washburn X-10 - 3 Kg
- Warmoth cuerpo forma EVH 3.6 Kg
- Westone Les Paul 1978 - 4.57 Kg
- XOX Audiotools The Handle - 2.2 Kg
- Yamaha EG112 – 3.1 Kg
- Yamaha ERG121 - 3.3 Kg
- Yamaha RGXA2 - 2.5 Kg
- Yamaha Pacífica 611 HFM - 3.12 Kg
- Yamaha Pacífica 510 V - 3.45 Kg
- Yamaha Pacífica 311 H - 3.22 Kg

Bass:

- 1987 Charvel Bass 2B - 4.5 KG

I'm glad you liked the idea, thanks. New guitars added, next time, feel free to include them in the list yourselves

 

[bob123]

This list is a great idea, however, its chock full of horrible and obviously incorrect weights.

where are you getting your weights from? Different scales have different tolerances, so making a carte blanche list will be neigh on impossible.

 

[emperor_black]

^ its just to get an idea. I never thought my DK2T was heavier than my RR24M. And we've always know bass guitars are heavier but how much? Now we can get an idea. Besides tolerances are not that much different. proabably 1/4 KG +/-.

Unless people are using weighing scales used to weigh bags at the airport.

 

[chopeth]

where are you getting your weights from?

Except for 3 of them (mine own), I get them from another forum.

 

[orby]

My guitar is actually eight Agile strings taped together, making it the world's only 64-string guitar. Because I have emptied the electronics on all of the guitar bodies except the bottom one, i have been able to fill the empty space in the other seven bodies with enough solid gold that the guitar is now approaching a weight of 450 pounds. I am able to play this guitar only with the aid of ten assistants.

 

[NaYoN]

Etherial guitars carbon fiber 9 string Noyan custom - 4kg

 

[chopeth]

- AXL sro - 3 Kg
- B.C. Rich Beast NT (no battery) - 4.2 Kg
- Crafter SA - 3 Kg
- Collins LP90BK - 4.0 Kg
- Cort cr-280 vb - 4 Kg
- Cort EVL X4 - 4.15 Kg
- Cort Z44 - 3.7 Kg
- Cort KX101 - 3.3 Kg
- Cort m600t - 4 Kg
- Cort M LTD- Sp - 3.9 Kg
- Cort VX-4X - 3.95 Kg
- Cort Zenox z42 - 3.8 Kg
- Charvel San Dimas - 4.1 Kg
- Dean B.Zelinsky Venom - 2.9 Kg
- Dean B. Zelinsky Bolero - 3.8 Kg
- Dean Avalanche One - 3.8 Kg
- Dixon Strat HSS - 3 Kg
- Douglas 6-string - 3.0 KG
- Eagle SPE 2280-N - 4.5 Kg
- Edward E-AS-105SM - 3.5 Kg
- Edward E-HR-132III - 3.5 Kg
- Edwards E-LP-92CD - 3.9 Kg
- Epiphone Les Paul Special II - 2.8 Kg
- Epiphone Les Paul Black Beauty - 4 Kg
- Epiphone Les Paul Standard - 6 Kg
- Epiphone Les Paul Standard plain top - 3.78 Kg
- Epiphone Les Paul plus top - 4 Kg
- Epiphone Les Paul custom (MIK) - 4.3 Kg
- Epiphone Les Paul Standard (MI Czech republic) - 4 Kg
- Epiphone SG G-400 cherry - 3.2 Kg
- Epiphone ES335: 4,0 kg
- ESP Eclipse - 3.1 Kg
- ESP Edwards DIE Sig.: 3,7 kg
- ESP Edwards Alexi Sig.: 3,3 kg
- Esp Ltd EC-200 - 3.2 Kg
- ESP Ltd EC 401 - 3.93 Kg
- ESP LTD m100fm - 3.6 Kg
- Esp Ltd mh400nt - 3.3 Kg
- Esp Ltd Mh-1000 - 3.7 Kg
- Esp Ltd Viper 10 - 3.740 Kg
- ESP M-II (+ battery) - 3.4 Kg
- Etherial guitars carbon fiber 9 string Noyan custom - 4kg
- Fame Forum IV - 3.7 Kg
- Fame Forum Custom Spalted Maple - 4 Kg
- Fame Forum III (alder) - 3.5 Kg (aprox.)
- Fender American Standard Stratocaster - 3.7 Kg
- Fender American Standard Stratocaster (2004) - 3.7 Kg
- Fender American Estandar Stratocaster (2009) - 3.6 Kg
- Fender American Standard Stratocaster (2012) - 3.4 Kg
- Fender MIM Stratocaster - 3.6 Kg
- Fender Eric Jhonson Stratocaster - 3.75 Kg
- Fender SRV Stratocaster - 3.77 Kg
- Fender Stratocaster Eric Clapton Signature - 3.75 Kg
- Fender MIM Stratocaster Roadhouse - 4.1 Kg
- Fender CS Stratocaster: 3,6 kg
- Fender Telecaster standard - 3.8 Kg
- Fender Telecaster Highway One USA - 3.4 Kg
- Fender Squier Strat - 3.732 Kg
- Gibson ES 335 DOT Plain EB - 3.9 Kg
- Gibson Explorer'76 - 5.8 Kg
- Gibson 1965 Firebird VII - 4.22 Kg
- Gibson Flying V 68 - 3 Kg
- Gibson Les Paul '59 junior 2008 - 2.9 Kg
- Gibson Les Paul Custom - 4.5 Kg
- Gibson Les Paul custom 1983 - 4.7 Kg
- Gibson Les Paul Custom 1990 - 4.95 Kg
- Gibson Les Paul Custom black beauty 1974 - 5 Kg
- Gibson Les Paul Custom 57´ Black Beauty - 4.25 Kg
- Gibson Les Paul Standard double cutaway plus - 4.5 Kg
- Gibson les Paul Studio Faded (2010) - 3.4 Kg
- Gibson Les Paul Standard (2005) - 4.1 Kg
- Gibson Les Paul Standard (2011) - 3.7 Kg
- Gibson les Paul Studio (2007) - 3.4 Kg
- Gibson Super 400 - 3.7 Kg
- Gibson SG Standard 2008 - 3.375 Kg
- Gibson SG standard 2010 - 3 Kg
- Gibson SG special faded - 2.9 Kg
- Gibson SG '61 - 3.5 Kg
- Gibson SG '61 2009 - 2.8 Kg
- Gretsch Electromatic Pro Jet con Bigsby - 3.5Kg
- G&L legacy tribute - 5 Kg
- Harley Benton HBS200 - 3.2 Kg
- Ibanez AM93 - 3.320 Kg
- Ibanez art120 - 3.8 Kg (aprox.)
- Ibanez Artcore AF-75 - 3.1 KG
- Ibanez SAS32FM - 2.49 Kg
- Ibanez sa260 fm - 3.0 Kg
- Ibanez SB 70 - 3.2 Kg
- Ibanez S520EX - 3.625 Kg
- Ibanez RG270 - 3.7 Kg
- Ibanez rgr321ex - 3.1 Kg
- Ibanez rgd2120z 3.5 kg
- Ibanez RG350DX - 3.75 Kg
- Ibanez S - 3.3 Kg
- Ibanez s5470 3.5 kg
- Ibanez RG3120 - 3.75 Kg
- Ibanez RG420 (1987) - 3.7 Kg
- Jackson COW 7: 3,3 kg
- Jackson RR24M - 3.2 KG
- Jackson DK2T - 3.3 KG
- Jackson Sl3 - 3.9 Kg
- Jackson WRXT Warrior - 3.4 Kg
- James Tyler Studio Elite: 3,2 kg
- Lag rockline 1990 - 3.3 Kg
- LAG ARKANE 1000 (+ battery) - 3.52 Kg
- Parker FLY Deluxe - 1.92 Kg
- Peavey Raptor International Series - 4.5 Kg
- PRS Custom 22 - 3.2 Kg
- Paul Reed Smith Santana MD: 3,8 kg
- Schecter blackjack SLS C-7 (+ battery) - 3.705 Kg
- Schecter Hellraiser C-1 Black Gloss - 5 Kg
- Schechter Jeff Loomis 4.2 kg (hellraiser body)
- Squier Bullet - 3.2 Kg
- Squier Affinity Stratocaster - 3.2 Kg
- Squier Affinity Telecaster - 3.2 Kg
- Tokai LC53 - 4.5 Kg
- Tokai LS370 - 4.4 Kg
- VGS Select Cobra Black Cherry - 4.3 Kg
- Vantage Strat HSS - 3.5 Kg
- Vintage V100 AFD Paradise - 4.3 kg
- Washburn Wi66v - 3.55 Kg
- Washburn X-10 - 3 Kg
- Warmoth cuerpo forma EVH 3.6 Kg
- Westone Les Paul 1978 - 4.57 Kg
- XOX Audiotools The Handle - 2.2 Kg
- Yamaha EG112 – 3.1 Kg
- Yamaha ERG121 - 3.3 Kg
- Yamaha RGXA2 - 2.5 Kg
- Yamaha Pacífica 611 HFM - 3.12 Kg
- Yamaha Pacífica 510 V - 3.45 Kg
- Yamaha Pacífica 311 H - 3.22 Kg

Bass:

- 1987 Charvel Bass 2B - 4.5 KG