Whats your LIGHTEST guitar?

[dave74]

I have several that are between 7 and 8, but nothing super light,,,,,,,,then I also have a few that are in that 9-10 range.

[Securb]

My Parker MidiFly is around 4.5 lbs

[dave74]

^^^Wow that is light! No wonder they call it a fly.

[Securb]

^^^Wow that is light! No wonder they call it a fly.

My bass player hates the Parker he calls it my **** you guitar. He says it sounds fantastic. But if we are playing something new and he gets lost he can not look at my neck to see where we are, no fret markers. So, **** you, you can't follow me. He offered to buy me fretboard stickers.

[Blille]

Both my Gibson ES330 and my Strandberg Original are under 6lbs

[Ascension]

SG is 6 lbs. Tele is 6.5 lbs. 7 String is 6 lbs. Can't get much lighter than that.

I prefer lightweight instruments but balance definitely starts to become an issue with lighter weight instruments. I had a PRS SE Santana for a bit that was 7 lbs but the body was disproportionately heavy so it fell off my leg constantly and I sold it. My P Bass is the opposite, 7.5 lbs with a light body so I always felt like I was having to hold the neck up while playing. High Mass bridge and lightweight tuners fixed that issue and it balances better now.

Understand and my AE 185 definitely has the issue of neck dive. However that 6.1 LB X220C is one of the most perfectly balanced guitars on a strap I have ever played. Has to be that crazy body shape but that's one of the main reasons I have kept this guitar for all these years. Doesn't hurt that it plays like butter is rock solid in tuning and sounds incredible. Only down side is it looks weird LOL!

[Ascension]

My Parker MidiFly is around 4.5 lbs

Those are very nice guitars!

[Mincer]

My Steinberger is just at 5lbs, the Music Man Silo Special is 6.5lbs.

[dave74]

My bass player hates the Parker he calls it my **** you guitar. He says it sounds fantastic. But if we are playing something new and he gets lost he can not look at my neck to see where we are, no fret markers. So, **** you, you can't follow me. He offered to buy me fretboard stickers.

Most of my guitars are blank ebony, but I need to have easy to see side-dots or even better the glow-in-the-darks. I get lost on my Giger rgt because the binding is a marble like look and the dots are barely visible. It has inlays but they are like a smokey marble that completely disappear unless you turn exactly to the light.

[Synapsys]

My Ibanez SEW761FM, at 5.25lbs.

[Mikelamury]

My lightest guitar is actually my fender FMT HH (flame maple top) telecaster. It is 6 pounds even! It's got a JB/Jazz set in it with a master coil split. Matching headstock. I actually have two of these, going to put a custom/jazz set in the other one .

[GuitarDoc]

Wow, I never knew there were so many very light guitars. Most of my custom guitars are between 6 and 7 lbs. I have one that is exactly 6.0 lbs.

[Chistopher]

My Parker MidiFly is around 4.5 lbs

If it weren't a Parker, I could see modding that guitar for the express purpose of making it lighter. But then all their fancy engineering would go to waste...

[Securb]

If it weren't a Parker, I could see modding that guitar for the express purpose of making it lighter. But then all their fancy engineering would go to waste...

I have very few guitars that are bone stock this is one of them. It is not all about preserving the guitar, Parkers play and sound great out of the box.

[jeremy]

and its 4.5 lbs, thats plenty light! also, tell your bass player to pay more attention and he wont get lost