bonocomet
Blue Crack Distributor
Btw, how heavy is a real Explorer?
I have a replica and the damn thing ripped the guitar hook off the wall.
I'll let EdgeO answer that with much more technical expertise wt, but just as a casual observer and sometimes handler of the guitars, the Explorer is not all that heavy. Definitely not as heavy as the Les Paul monster which I can barely lift (ok well not really but that damn thing is freakin heavy, which has always been my personal suspicion of one of the reasons Bono stopped playing his in concert). Between the 4 guitars in my house, the Tele is the lightest, with the LP Junior next, then the Explorer which is very similar in weight to the Junior, and the LP the absolute heaviest and much heavier than the other 3.
However because of the shape of the Explorer its case is damn heavy, and we're back to the "I can barely move the damn thing around" business again. that case weighs a ton!