Can anything else be done for a heavy bass?

[Jackroadkill]

On 08/03/2025 at 15:06, Osiris said:

you're not going to be tempted by something that makes you look like you're wearing a bra...

 

Where can these be had?  Asking for a guitarist....

[Geek99]

4 minutes ago, Jackroadkill said:

 

Where can these be had?  Asking for a guitarist....

You cannot be. Your question had punctuation and case-awareness. Most guitards are at the crayon-stage 

Perhaps you interpreted it from “Johnny go poo-poo”?

[Geek99]

14 minutes ago, Geek99 said:

You cannot be. Your question had punctuation and case-awareness. Most guitards are at the crayon-stage 

Perhaps you interpreted it from “Johnny go poo-poo”?

Seriously. Few have sentience 

[Norris]

15 hours ago, Shambo said:

Allow me to pose a question only for arguments sake.

 

So, you have a wooden guitar body that is heavy. Let’s say a 70’s Fender alder body that wasn't seasoned for long enough before it was wrapped in poly.

If you were to strip the body back to the bare wood and place it in a ‘drying chamber’ then wouldn’t the seasoning process resume as the wood slowly loses moisture content and therefore weight? 

Let’s just ignore shrinkage and glued pieces and anything like that.

 

Could you restart the seasoning process on an old piece of wood?

It’s something I’ve wondered about occasionally.

All instrument wood must be seasoned to make it stable enough to use. Otherwise it would be likely to warp over time. If wood were damp it's unlikely even a poly coating would stay on it for long.

 

Some chunks of wood are simply more dense than others, even from the same species. Different growing conditions will affect the wood quite significantly - for instance swamp ash is quite slow growing, so is likely to be more dense, more stable and more resonant (although I don't really subscribe to the idea of tone woods). Also rock maple - a very stable wood suitable for making necks.

 

I made a guitar body from a big chunk of African khaya - similar to mahogany. It was almost like balsa (which is actually a hardwood btw) in weight. It made a fantastic guitar (according to my guitarist) that was really light but sounded good. However another chunk of khaya is unlikely to have the same weight as the one I used though.

 

In other words (and the tl;dr version), some guitars are just heavier than others 😂

[Geek99]

YMMV

this^^^

[Osiris]

6 hours ago, Jackroadkill said:

 

Where can these be had?  Asking for a guitarist....

 

Here's where I bought mine from. 

[Rosie C]

9 hours ago, Terry M. said:

But did it change it? Whether good or bad?

 

No, I don't think it changed the fundamental sound of the bass. 

[Terry M.]

3 hours ago, Rosie C said:

 

No, I don't think it changed the fundamental sound of the bass. 

Thanks. I only asked because I once had an 11 pound plus bass that had tone for days and I often wondered if it would have sounded like that if it were say 2 pounds lighter.