Fluid Druid

3 hours ago, Nick H. said:

I was a  friend of Chris who bought the lost TB. Unfortunately he fell ill a few months back and passed away. It was a big shock. I too am a bass player and remember talking Travis Beans with him and he eventually pulled the trigger. Chris had a small collection of around six rotating basses and bought and sold them for the experience of playing them more than anything else. Maybe some restoration work. His wife contacted me today with the news it had been found. Hopefully it can be sorted out in the near future. That could be another mission though. Who knows? 

Many thanks to Fluid druid who got in touch. 

Cheers. 

Damn I was hoping for a happier ending. If his wife can reach out to us and if she wants it we can figure out how to release it over to her. 

6 hours ago, binky_bass said:

@Fluid Druid - I'm assuming you joined the site just to try to make contact with @nationofzeros, if so that's really very good of you to have gone out of your way to try to make contact! Restores some faith in humanity! Great work and I'm sure will be hugely appreciated by @nationofzeros as and when you make contact with them. Fantastically honest, the world needs more of the same! 

Yep! I’m a local musician too so I’d want someone to do the same for me if it happened. It was too niche of a bass for me not to question it and look into it. If I wasn’t there that day I don’t think the bass would have stood a chance. 

5 hours ago, Bigwan said:

Emailed @nationofzeros. Fingers crossed! 

I’m waiting to hear back from them. Saw they looked at my message 

6 hours ago, NikNik said:

Awesome! How did you surmise that it was possibly stolen? 

 

Good on ya!

We were looking it up once the individual who had wanted to sell it to us. Somehow stumbled upon this blog while looking up the bass. We told the customer that it’s been reported stolen and we need to put it on Police hold. They gave us some run around story that wasn’t legit and they took off with the case with the yellow interior while we had the bass behind the counter. We told them they could come back when the police are here the next day if it was “theirs” and wanted it back. The ran to their car and peeled off. We have their info saved on file 

I sent a message to the account that did the original post. We have it on police hold at the shop. We’ve been sitting on it for about a month now waiting to hear back from PPD. 

Hey there! We are a pawn shop in SE Portland, Oregon. I think we have your Travis Bean bass!