How weight is a Stratocaster? i mean if with the years those guitars are less weight or if the better ones are heavier than the bad onesor not. what do you think,,,,

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All of my American Strats which are of different years and one is an Artist Series weigh betweeen just under 8 lbs to about 8.lbs 4 oz. I cant see where the small amout of difference in weight makes a noticeable difference in the tone. The lightest one probably resonates slightly more than the others, but it is an Ash body. Still not really noticeable to my ears.

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The weight of the guitar has little to do with the sound,it's the tonal properties of the wood that makes the difference.You can have a light guitar that sounds great and a heavy one that sounds horrible or vice versa.The type of wood usually affects the weight with bass wood and poplar being among the lightest and black ash among the heaviest. In the '78/'79 era some Strat were made of black ash and some weighed as much as 12 lbs-I had one and had to get rid of it because it was so heavy. Most Strats these days weigh around 7-8 lbs.

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I agree with guitslinger. It's not the weight of the wood, it's the density and hardness of the wood. At least in Fender circles anyway. Those aspects of density and hardness are both related to weight but they don't equal weight. A harder wood will vibrate longer but a lighter wood will resonate better. I know it sounds like a contradiction but it's not really. If you were able to make two guitars that were the same weight but with different woods the one with the harder wood would vibrate longer. If you were to make two guitars with the same hardness of wood the lighter one would resonate better. For the purposes of Fender guitars that may seem an impossible experiment to duplicate but that's because all Strats (or Teles or whatever) are exactly the same size, shape and thickness so density/hardness and weight are for all intents and purposes inexorably linked. However if you were to deviate from the standard body thickness and make one Strat thinner, as in less volume of wood, then you could make it with a harder wood and it would still be the same weight but it would vibrate longer. If you made it even thinner yet and still with the same harder wood it would then be both lighter and harder and it would resonate better and vibrate longer.

Clear as mud?

Warmoth has some good literature for the beginner if you wish to study tone woods. The information given is pretty much entry level stuff as it just scratches the surface but it's good enought to help someone get started in learning about tone woods. The one drawback to the Warmoth page is that they don't make the distiction between sustain and resonance. They basically do not address resonance. Nevertheless for Fender guitars it's a good place to start.

Here is the link:

http://www.warmoth.com/Guitar/Bodies/Options/BodyWoodOptions.aspx

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