EVH and AXIS weight difference. Whats up??

[Tone?]

i was recently looking at some of my old cliping and stuff and stumbled across an old EBMM catalog. Inside i looked and it had the old EVH model and i was surprised to see that it said 8 pounds varies slightly.

Now the Axis says something like 7 pounds 6 ounces or something like that.


whats with the weight difference??

I know it aint that big of a deal but half a pound is half a pound in guitars.

I have heard that the lighter weight basswood is better.


any thoughts?

cheers

 

[beej]

Having had a few of most models, I've found there can be a fair difference in weight. I wouldn't take the weight specs on the site as the gospel- wood being wood, you're going to get a fair amount of variance from model to model. (And who knows, the trem block may be different, etc.)

 

[Tone?]

Yeah i can see that no prob, but how come they went with a lighter body??

 

[TonyEVH5150]

Also, there's the belly contour to account for some of the lost weight on the Axis. that's really the only difference . . . .No belly contour on the EVH.

The EVH and Axis are both basswood with a maple top, so it's a bit of an apples to apples comparison.

 

[Eilif]

Is the Floyd heavier than the vintage trem?

 

[TonyEVH5150]

info on the Axis:

Ernie Ball Music Man Axis Guitar

Info on the Super Sport:

Ernie Ball Music Man Axis Super Sport Guitar

Axis is 7 lbs 4 oz

ASS with trem is 7 lbs 4 oz (hardtail is 6 lb 13 oz, trem adds 7 oz to that).

It could also be that the vintage trem + the tocking tuners = the weight of the Floyd.

 

[Rufedges]

My Super-sport is really light,....didn't realize how light it was until I picked up my Ibanez the other day,.....thing felt like a truck,...it is mahoganyw/ maple top too.....was thinking about maybe keeping the Ibanez ( got it up for sale ), then I played my Axis again,...and confirmed, still for sale.....the Axis rules. Can't wait to get another one! I don't think a pound will matter, but a couple pounds is another thing.

 

[Tone?]

half a pound matters tons to high end builders.....


but maybe the contour thingy has something to do with it. that makes the most sense

 

[hbucker]

In addition to the body contour, the control route is also bigger in the Axis than the EVH. The EVH was routed for one pot. The Axis, for several.

 

[Tone?]

all those could be it possibly

 

[Astrofreq]

I've had I believe 7 different Axis guitars and 1 EVH over the years. The Spaceball 3000 (blue ASS) was considerably lighter than say the Rosewood SS. At least a pound difference. My current purple SS is lighter than the EVH I sold. I was always surprised by the different weights in the same model guitars.