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My 78 mustang weighs around 6 pounds. I read somewhere that by this time, fender made them all out of ash, but isnt this the heavy ass ash fender used at the time?

the stang is a small, slim guitar, mine is very light. lighter than other 77-78 stangs ive seen or read about on the internet. is it possible mine is poplar, or another wood used by Fender at the time?

I think many of the ash guitars are heavy but some of them are lighter. usually you would pick out the lighter pieces for guitar making but I think during this period fender must have just not bothered sorting through the stuff so some came out light while others were heavy. my '78 is not heavy either. I think pat (pacafeliz) has some late 70s fenders that he has remarked are pretty light as well.

Mages wrote:I think many of the ash guitars are heavy but some of them are lighter. usually you would pick out the lighter pieces for guitar making but I think during this period fender must have just not bothered sorting through the stuff so some came out light while others were heavy. my '78 is not heavy either. I think pat (pacafeliz) has some late 70s fenders that he has remarked are pretty light as well.

Good to know, what kind of ash are we talking about exactly? hard ash? swamp ash?

I think I read something about one example that weighed around 9 pounds.