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Post by Ripper on Apr 10, 2007 11:06:04 GMT -5
Just curious...
Has anyone out there weighed their Strat?
Im trying to get a grasp on the average weight of the beast.
I have two, made from ash & alder. Once I figure out an accurate way to scale them I will.
I know, I know get on the scale with and without your guitar and deduct the diff.
I want something more accurate.
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Post by ChrisK on Apr 10, 2007 18:53:45 GMT -5
Go to your local UPS/FedEx place and ask them to weigh them. Tell them that you're considering selling them on ebay and want to get a shipping cost estimate (don't forget to actually ask for the shipping charge estimates  ). Take them to your doctor and use their balance scale. Fill your bathtub with water to overflow. Throw the guitar in and measure the displaced water (a pint's a pound the world around....). Make a simple balance scale using a bar and a large (2 gallon) container and fill it with water to balance (see above). Fill the large container (see above) with beer and guess............. |
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Post by Channelman on Apr 16, 2007 10:00:20 GMT -5
a pint's a pound the world around... Oh, no it's not Chris.....USA maybe... Here in the UK the saying goes...... A pint of pure water
Weighs a pound and a quarter
A pint of best beer
Weighs something quite nearBut then we do have a PROPER pint here  |
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Post by ChrisK on Apr 16, 2007 14:53:02 GMT -5
Yeah, but y'all still drink it warm.
Big gallons, big quarts, tiny cars.
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Post by JohnH on Apr 27, 2007 16:07:10 GMT -5
Speaking as an ex-pat Brit:
The larger the gallon, the better the fuel economy (mpg). Tiny cars also help that.
J
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Post by vonFrenchie on Apr 30, 2007 22:16:48 GMT -5
Im proud to say I have a good ol American car. General Motors in fact (Saturn). 35 miles to the gallon, 200 horsepower, and PLENTY of room for my amp, guitar, my bandmates amp and guitar while still seating both of us comfortably. Nothing can beat the good ol American midsize sedan.
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Post by blank on Jul 9, 2007 14:51:50 GMT -5
I've got a 1978 Stratocaster and it feels like I've got a Les Paul on. What were they making them out of back then? I've read Ash?
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Post by crazymanandy on Jul 9, 2007 23:30:25 GMT -5
If it is that heavy, they probably used hard ash.
CMA
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 10, 2007 11:06:57 GMT -5
Yeah, but y'all still drink it warm. Big gallons, big quarts, tiny cars. The UK uses proper measurements, the US just took our imperial measurements and changed them.... just to be awkward. Anyway, the world should be metric (British Metric). |
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Post by ChrisK on Jul 10, 2007 12:37:31 GMT -5
Nah, it was changed so that the itty bitty ditty actually rhymes now. A pint's a pound, the world a'round. A pint of best beer, regardless of how much it actually weighs is still better when refrigerated, dear. This is all just revisionist feldergarb. Neither the British way or that purloined French (which they DID NOT invent) metric way are in any way original. They both are descended from the megalithic yard which is directly related the the length of a pendulum (mass irrelevant) used to "beat counts" while solar system objects (a particular one actually) transits a fraction of a circle). Intervals of this length as equal sides of cubic and spherical containers have been used for transportable and repeatable commerce (and 'lithic structure building) for millenia (as in plural/many thereof). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalithic_YardOr not. |
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 10, 2007 15:59:11 GMT -5
Metric is still better ;D
British Imperial and American units are different, where Metric is the same everywhere, so everyone should use metric, it'd be alot easier.
1Kg = 2.2lbs, BTW.
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Post by Ripper on Jul 11, 2007 12:17:42 GMT -5
From a Canadians point of view...
We used to be imperial measurement just like the U.S.
Thats all we learned in school. Then in the mid 70's some genius's in the government thought it would be best to convert to the metric system.
We had to relearn everything, and even to this day (Im 43) I still convert everything back to the oldschool way. If someone talks kilograms to me, I have to convert it in my head to pounds, to get a feeling of the actual weight.
I LOATHE the metric system. Its great when I cross the border into New York state and see everything in MPH, not KPH....Pounds, not kilos.
Metric system??....Keep in in Europe. ;D
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Post by jorg on Jul 12, 2007 12:55:08 GMT -5
Indeed. Keep it in europe. . . ;D
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Post by ChrisK on Jul 12, 2007 22:04:11 GMT -5
Ya gots it backwards.
1# (lb) = 0.45454545454545454545454545454545 Kg (see, they couldn't make up their mind..........)
You must mean the U.K. when you speak of imperial since they were the first modern imperialists (at least from the U.S. perspective).
That would be oxymoronic at best.
I don't know why we'all needed a decimal system when we had a perfectly good binary one to begin with.
Yeah, Europe's a nice country (to visit). Fortunately England isn't part of it yet.
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Post by sumgai on Jul 13, 2007 2:31:07 GMT -5
Chris,
Probably because the Hottentot joke was too short when the punchline was only "One, Many". ;D
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Post by alfonso on Jul 14, 2007 19:54:51 GMT -5
I've got a 1978 Stratocaster and it feels like I've got a Les Paul on. What were they making them out of back then? I've read Ash? That's hard ash....is it a sunburst with black pickguard and pickups and maple neck and fingerboard? If so I had one like that, it's a very trebly country sounding guitar, good for funk too....if it's the same thing. Now I'm using its (rewired) electronics on an alder body and an ebony freatboard bird eye maple neck, with a sound that I prefer and no more pain in my shoulder..... |
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Post by blank on Jul 16, 2007 13:57:26 GMT -5
I've got a 1978 Stratocaster and it feels like I've got a Les Paul on. What were they making them out of back then? I've read Ash? That's hard ash....is it a sunburst with black pickguard and pickups and maple neck and fingerboard? If so I had one like that, it's a very trebly country sounding guitar, good for funk too....if it's the same thing. Now I'm using its (rewired) electronics on an alder body and an ebony freatboard bird eye maple neck, with a sound that I prefer and no more pain in my shoulder..... It's black, black pickguard (originally), black PU's (originally), maple fretboard - BUT where the black paint has started to wear off from rubbing against my ribs I see red and yellow underneath. So it must have been a botched sunburst they painted over black. |
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