{"id":475,"date":"2014-03-08T17:06:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T17:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aboutguitars.wordpress.com\/?page_id=475"},"modified":"2021-01-30T11:21:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T11:21:29","slug":"weight-relief-chambering","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/?page_id=475","title":{"rendered":"Weight Relief \/ Chambering"},"content":{"rendered":"

Due to the solid mahogany body of a Gibson Les Paul model and the shortage of \u00a0lighter \u00a0mahogany in the early 1980’s Gibson started using Weight Relief<\/strong>. \u00a0This consisted of drilling 9 holes through the body in the so called “swiss cheese” format.<\/p>\n

\"swisscheese\"<\/p>\n

This continued until around 2007 and was used after that on the Traditional models although some are available from 2013 without any weight relief. (Lighter wood?)<\/span><\/p>\n

Before this Les Paul guitars were getting heavier especially the Custom models as these were a one piece solid body. Over 40% heavier in some cases.<\/p>\n

As the\u00a0available\u00a0<\/span>mahogany got heavier Gibson switched to <\/span>Chambering <\/strong>which\u00a0<\/strong>helped a lot with the weight.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\"chambered\"<\/p>\n

Only specific models were chambered before 2007.<\/p>\n

Recently Gibson announced Modern Weight Relief which is a little different here is the link:<\/p>\n

Gibson – Modern Weight Relief<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Due to the solid mahogany body of a Gibson Les Paul model and the shortage of \u00a0lighter \u00a0mahogany in the early 1980’s Gibson started using Weight Relief. \u00a0This consisted of drilling 9 holes through the body in the so called “swiss cheese” format. This continued until around 2007 and was used after that on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-475","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P536vY-7F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004,"href":"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/475\/revisions\/1004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}