$33 Mystery Body

[Simon Barden]

You could have bought 5 bodies and saved 2.4% on the bundle!

I also wonder how they manage to get all the bodies the same weight, when wood varies in weight considerably. If it weights 1101g or 1099g, can you get a refund?

[fender3x]

You could have bought 5 bodies and saved 2.4% on the bundle!

I also wonder how they manage to get all the bodies the same weight, when wood varies in weight considerably. If it weights 1101g or 1099g, can you get a refund?

Ha! If it weighs 1099 I'll be very pleased, even if it has the dreaded neck dive as Mark suggests. Alas, I suspect that will not be the case. They give two different package weights in the ebay ad. One is 1300g the other is 1350g. This morning I got tracking info from Fedex and notice that that the reported packing weight was 3.75 Kg. The notice said FexEx had not yet picked it up, so I sent a message to the seller saying that I will just be sending it back to them if it is that heavy. I asked them to cancel it...but I suspect it is too late. If so, I will take a look at it, and then most likely send it back. eBay guarantees a refund if the item is different than what was ordered. I would say 3x the weight qualifies.

I agree with Joe, BTW, that it looks like poplar. I realized recently that I actually have some paulownia, because it is used in Taekwondo to make the thin breaking boards. My children have left quite a few of those boards, mostly in halves. They look a lot like poplar with two differences. Paulownia is MUCH more porous, and the streaks tend to be a bit more toward the gray end, and never yellow/green like you get with poplar. Poplar is, however, much more dense than paulownia...and might explain the weight...

If it comes, I'll report. In the meantime, I may take a look at some Youtube on chambering... maybe that's a better way to get the weight off... I have a week or so to think about it, anyway.

[Joe Garfield]

The shipping weight is most likely due to a package that’s big but light. Because it takes up a lot of real estate for it’s weight (low density) the freight companies charge based on an equivalent weight - what they would expect a package of that size to weigh. I forget the industry term for this but it’s basically a billing weight.

For example, if you were to ship a gigantic empty box, they would still charge you a lot even though the weight is very low.

The difference between 1300g and 1350g is 50g, or less than 2 ounces, or less than 1/8 lb. That could be the difference in the way somebody is rounding (it might be between 1300g and 1350g), maybe a difference in packing material, or maybe the 1300g ‘package box’ was put inside another 50g ‘shipping box.’