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Originally Posted by StephaninMelb
Many of the American and European hardwoods are the same density & weight as MDF, particleboard and birch / beech plywood. An amp constructed with a solid wood enclosure would weigh more or less the same as from those man made materials.
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If we're talking Fender amps, the only solid wood used was pine which is far lighter than plywood and definitely lighter than particleboard. Just for reference, I have two silverface Princeton Reverbs, one has a pine cab and the other has a particleboard cab. The pine cab is 15.1lbs; the particleboard cab is 19.5lbs. That's quite a difference for an amp that small. For something the size of a Twin/Pro, it would probably be around 10lbs. In either case, that's more than noticeable.