Love your method from. Start... I am gonna take it apart and weigh each part. Man on a mission.

@jasonpillingmusic

2 жыл бұрын

thanks! "fact based journalism" :)

I just found this while researching my own plan to reduce the weight of a Fender MIJ Mustang bass. It belonged to 2 if my friends who both passed away. The original owner passed it to a mutual friend when he retired and I bought from the widow of the second owner after he passed. It plays and sounds incredible with just the single stick split pickup but it leaves me in pain for days after a gig. I'm mostly a lead player and prefer semi-hollow guitars so I'm not accustomed to the weight. I plan route out as much as I can under the pickguard and I may put a cavity in the back also. The offset body leaves so much useless wood in the lower bout but I don't want change the finish. I'm thinking of doing a small cavity or two in the back of the headstock instead of reshaping it and would like to hear from anyone who may have tried this. Your data on component weights is great; you saved me a lot of effort. If I can cut 2 lbs from this bass I'll elated. I wish there were more pic or vid of the body during and after the mods.

@jasonpillingmusic

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I'll make a 'Short" video to add some pictures - check back in a couple of days. Good luck with your project.

@DingoDawg64

2 жыл бұрын

@@jasonpillingmusic I got mine done. I used a Dremel with a plunge router attachment and it worked pretty well, but slower than a full size router. I put cavities under the pickguard, bridge plate, and neck joint. Also changed the tuners and it's still well balanced. I was prepared to route out the back of the headstock, which is the large Fender headstock, but it wasn't necessary. I'll post some pics if I can figure out how, but I don't see that option here. Haven't weighed it but I have no doubt it's 2 lbs lighter, maybe a little more than that.

@jasonpillingmusic

2 жыл бұрын

@@DingoDawg64 awesome...if it's right for you, then it's right.

Thank you very much. Sad its not many views, but you help lot!!!

@jasonpillingmusic

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! We'll get there, the video has been gaining momentum in the algorithm :)

hello, if I cut out wood from body , will it effect tone, example stranberg headless lead guitar have body with minimum wood

@jasonpillingmusic

3 жыл бұрын

Well...every instrument is different, so I don't know. This particular instrument, I did the before and after tone test starting at 10:38 in the video. It was subtle, if noticeable at all. Personally, I think three things matter more for tone....1. your playing, 2. the pickups, 3. your amp. Cutting some wood out of the body is probably less relevant that all those.

Man that headstock looks terrible

@jasonpillingmusic

3 жыл бұрын

ya...it was fugly. No regrets...I tossed that neck immediately when the video was done and put on a fretless neck. But what I learned was to be careful about how I cut to set up the angles on the opposite side tuning key. I carefully drew it before cutting the 2nd time.

@mellofan2012

3 жыл бұрын

@@jasonpillingmusic oh i didn't realize this was behind the scenes. I will check out your other videos

@ChezzOnBass

8 күн бұрын

Looks like the hand of a friend who lost his fingers in a power saw incident

Hi! How many weight you won with this manipulations?

@jasonpillingmusic

3 жыл бұрын

Assume you speak metric (me too, Canadian).... about 900grams lighter at the end.

@codeforlemontea

3 жыл бұрын

@@jasonpillingmusic thanks. Russians love metric system too :) I thing its really good result. My bass guitar is about 4kilo. 900 g. is 20% of mass. Maybe i try this too.

How about the balance?

@jason.pilling

11 ай бұрын

It's well balanced. The lightweight keys offset the change in body weight. It doesn't take much reduction in headstock weight to offset the larger body weight reduction because headstock weight reduction is leveraged by the length of the neck from the centre of gravity.

I would stick with mass. I had a "lightweight" bass once and it just did not play right IMO.

@jasonpillingmusic

3 жыл бұрын

Sure, that's fine if people like the traditional setup. But, months later and I still have no regrets about this modification. Like I said in the video...it ended up feeling very nicely balanced, worked out well.

@pmjd42

3 жыл бұрын

@@jasonpillingmusic Balance was the issue. It was back in the 80's (A Framus Stratos 4?) so a while ago. IIRC, the body was really light, but the tuners on the headstock were quite heavy which just had it sliding off my neck with the tuners on the floor almost.

@jasonpillingmusic

3 жыл бұрын

@@pmjd42 yes, I have a lighter weight BC Rich that neck dives and it can be tiring on the fret arm to have the job of holding it up. With the one I modded, I made a point of swapping in lightweight tuners and I trimmed the headstock. I think I got something like 200gr / 0.5lb off the head. It doesn't dive.

Stripping out over 2lbs from a bass is way too much... 10 to 12ounces would make a significant different without having to go to extremes

@jasonpillingmusic

Жыл бұрын

Fortune favours the bold.

@jasonpillingmusic

Жыл бұрын

Hi. Thanks for the comment, but I have to push back a bit. What's the concern? Too much for what? I'm not having any problems with it.

@dm4728

Жыл бұрын

I mean subtle but tangible reductions can be had for less work is what I really mean. Routing our a few hundred grams from under the pick guard would make a nice weight reductions and it's all concealed with the pickguard, and wouldn't result in neck dive issus etc but would feel more comfortable on the shoulder and back

@jasonpillingmusic

Жыл бұрын

​@@dm4728 that's fine...I think we disagree on the constraints. That's a different video..."How much weight can you reduce with no visible changes".