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On a Stratocaster, this aligns with the thirteenth fret. Plenty far enough to eliminate neck dive.
A replacement body would need to be almost entirely hollow for it to be lighter than the neck.
I also had a PRS Hollowbody which weighed well under 5lb and was indeed almost entirely hollow, and with the strap button parallel with the 14th fret that didn't neck dive either, although it was so light it had the odd sensation of holding just the neck...
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Put that strap button near the 12th fret and you would struggle to make a normal shaped guitar not balance. At the 14th -16th most are at, body or neck weight can affect things, but only at extremes. move that strap button further up than 16th and balance can become an issue. Will add some example after breakfast
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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
examples from some of my builds, which tend to be a bit different to factory guitars. 2 are les paul in shape only, so provide a good example for how changing other factors affects things on a shape that should balance easily.
Guitar weighs 8lb 15oz as the body is made from a engineered wood product to mimic rosewood. Strap button is 16th fret. It's a fender neck with fender scale and big headstock. My expectation would be this would be body heavy because it has a heavy body. Actually the longer neck with big headstock gives it a slight tendency towards neck heaviness on the strap, even with vintage style tuners with plastic buttons. Essentially, the good strap button placement on a LP stops the body weight being an issue, but can't help with the heavier headstock that's further away from that point. The guitar hangs level, rather than with neck pointing slightly up, so not really an issue
Again les paul shaped. This time with a fully hollow spruce/walnut body and maple/ebony neck. It weighs 6lb 6oz and everything is in the normal LP positions so should balance fine. However on this the discrepancy between neck and body weights pushes it towards neck heaviness, especially with these tuners. Oddly, the guitar feels heavier than it is because of this. I have weighed it multiple times as i didn't believe the scales. Again we have the weight of the neck affecting a LP more, but this time the extremely light body really doesn't help matters. Doesn't have strap buttons yet, so lets see how it copes once it does
Body is poplar, neck is Afromosia, so again we have a light body heavy neck combo - but this time the strap button is moved to the 14 1/2 fret. It weighs 6lb 12oz in its finished state. also worth noting there is less distance behind the bridge than the other two examples, so the center of mass for the body is closer to the neck. Very nicely balanced
Maple through neck with some of the lightest mahogany i have ever had for the wings. Strap button is near 12th fret, not much body behind the bridge. Actual weight is about 6lb. Perceived weight is that the guitar is not even there. Balance is perfect.
All the guitars are great in their own way. Ergonomically, the bottom one clear wins because it gets the balance between body, neck and strap button position right.
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Have you ever had the guitar in pieces and weighed the neck and body separately?
If you already knew the weight of the heavy body currently on your guitar you MIGHT be able to do a rudimentary simulation of fitting a lighter body by hanging a weight on the neck. Fit a cheap slippery nylon strap that slides easily across the fabric of your shirt and hang a bag on the neck maybe somewhere around the 7th fret. Add bolts, nuts, marbles, or something like that to the bag one at a time until the guitar begins to neck dive. Weight the bag. That might provide a very rough approximation of how much lighter a body you can fit to the same neck without it being neck heavy on a strap. The only thing I'm really guessing at is where on the neck would be the best place to hang the weight for a realistic approximation, and I'm crap at physics. Just thinking out loud really.