My limited research reveals this may be traced back to Les Paul bulletin boards, where discussions about vintage ’burst tones festered in the early 2000s. Apparently, there is a sweet spot in guitarists’ imaginations, right around 8 1/4 pounds. So, what is it about light weight that makes it a bullet point for guitarists and builders alike? I bring this up because I got so many emails asking how much my guitars weighed that I just cut to the chase and put the numbers on my website. Anecdotally, some of the best-sounding guitars I’ve ever played were north of 10 pounds.īody mass index. The fact that most of those guitars often had single-coil pickups didn’t seem to enter into the discussions at the time. Telecasters, Strats, and various off-brand solidbodies were generally lighter, and brighter, which probably helped prop up this urban legend. The classic-rock mainstay Les Paul is no bantamweight, and it was widely thought that its considerable mass was at the center of the legendary rock tone it produced. In fact, it was often stated that heavier guitars sounded, for lack of a better term, heavier. That is to say that nobody put their guitar on a scale or cited lightness as a selling point. If you’ve been a guitarist for less than 20 years, you probably don’t remember when players weren’t concerned about instrument weight.
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