Which accurate scales do you use to weight your guitars and guitar parts?

tabano

I hope this is the right section,
Which scales do you use that are reliable and affordable, if they exist???
I bought a £15 non digital kit but they are off by 150g I believe…so I need to get some better ones I suppose…
Which would you recommend me?
many thanks in advance!!

rossi

Baby scales .We got ours cheap for the grandkids  arrovals when my daughter stayed with us and its proved very useful .Try gumtree or baby clubs .Test  all scales with a bag of sugar.

brucegill

I’ve got one of these I use for postage weights etc. works well for guitars too. 

https://amzn.eu/d/4M78r6a

SteveRobinson

I use these, accurate to 10Kg
https://salter.com/heston-blumenthal-precision-dual-platform-digital-kitchen-scales/

The smaller, more precise pan is good for weighing pigments, glues and such.

Anything over 10Kg, e.g. boxed and cased guitars go on the bathroom scales!

thermionic

I got a luggage scale like this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0BB28MCQ5

Definitely affordable, reliable so far, but I can't say anything about the accuracy or calibration. Works fine for guitars, for packaged boxes you might have to rig up a loop of string or something to hang the box off.

If I wanted to weigh a part I'd use some digital kitchen scales.

TheMarlin

Luggage scales for big stuff, and digital food scales for smalls

Sporky

I have some imaginatively-named MyWeigh KD-8000 kitchen scales - mains powered, up to 8kg load, accurate to 1g.

You can even recalibrate them, though I've not needed to.

BigPaulie

Why do you need them to be so accurate? Does your guitar have a big fight coming up?

tabano

BigPaulie said:

Why do you need them to be so accurate? Does your guitar have a big fight coming up?

Ha! Always!
actually I don’t care about weight unless is something that is bothering or worrying for as long as it sounds good, but Eeeeveryone seems to be so concerned with the weight of any guitar that it seems to have become a feature of the overall value of a guitar, sometimes new and mainly used…..
on a side note, for flying scales come handy…

tabano

Than you all for your suggestions!!
I think I’ll go with a good digital luggage scales..

Offset

I've never weighed a guitar in my life 

Musical_Mystery_Tour

I use the C Major scale

CHRISB50

I’ve only weighed guitars when asked by others.

I’ve always bought guitars in person, apart from (ironically) my LP Custom. So I’ve always been able to check the weight. 

My LP Custom was weight relieved (early 90s non custom shop), so it wasn’t very heavy. 

robgilmo

My shoulder usually, or my knee. Probably more my knee nowadays thinking about it.