4 string fretless - 14 Lbs ??

[fleabag]

How on earth did this get to weigh 14 Lbs ?

Solid  lead body with sneaky maple vinyl wrap

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MOSES-Fretless-Bass-with-Graphite-Neck-4-Piezo-Pickup-system/273179039923?hash=item3f9abd58b3:g:EekAAOSwWiNanxKU

[TheGreek]

14lbs with a Graphite neck? What if it was wood?

Shipping from New Joysee, USA.

[dyerseve]

39 minutes ago, TheGreek said:

14lbs with a Graphite neck? What if it was wood?

Shipping from New Joysee, USA.

Maybe he misspelt granite?

[Nibody]

Had a Squier VM 70's Jazz with a maple body. It was bloody heavy - maybe not 14lbs heavy but it was a back breaker.

[fleabag]

So the bulk of the weight is down to the solid maple body ?

[Nibody]

7 hours ago, fleabag said:

So the bulk of the weight is down to the solid maple body ?

Maples a fairly dense wood (Guess thats why they use it for necks). The weight of thge thing was the only reason I parted company with that VM Jazz.

[dyerseve]

10 hours ago, Nibody said:

Maples a fairly dense wood (Guess thats why they use it for necks). The weight of thge thing was the only reason I parted company with that VM Jazz.

Hmm I have a 5 string Streamer Stage 1 broadneck with a solid maple body and maple neck with neck thru construction. It has a solid brass bridge that weighs 1kg itself. The whole bass weighs weighs less than 4.6kg so im at a complete loss as to how this thing weighs anything approaching 14lbs...

[Nibody]

7 hours ago, dyerseve said:

Hmm I have a 5 string Streamer Stage 1 broadneck with a solid maple body and maple neck with neck thru construction. It has a solid brass bridge that weighs 1kg itself. The whole bass weighs weighs less than 4.6kg so im at a complete loss as to how this thing weighs anything approaching 14lbs...

Are those chambered? Friend has a nice Warwick proto type and that is semi hollow? That 4.6 kg is a solid 10lbs so 14lbs isnt too outrageous even if its a larger body (the Jazz's are quite sizeable, think mine was 12lb from memory)

 

 

[dyerseve]

2 hours ago, Nibody said:

Are those chambered? Friend has a nice Warwick proto type and that is semi hollow? That 4.6 kg is a solid 10lbs so 14lbs isnt too outrageous even if its a larger body (the Jazz's are quite sizeable, think mine was 12lb from memory)

 

 

No definitely not chambered. Just find it a real stretch for that 14lbs as mine is a large 5 string body and neck with the 20mm spacing and all the solid brass hardware etc.