Lost dogs - basses you wish you could buy back... Have you got it now?

[Chiliwailer]

Edit April 2021 - now got the bass back!! 
 

We've all done it, sold a bass that should have been a keeper and then regretted it later.

There Is one I'd buy back in a heartbeat for purely sentimental reasons. A Stingray I had from 1996-2009 would be my absolute choice for this list. I was selling gear to save for a flat and stupidly let this one go, was making bad decisions due to rough stuff going on. 

The Stingray is natural and maple, has an added MM neck pickup and a Precision pickup in the middle. Was my first proper bass and I cut my teeth on that one.

Anyone seen her? What would you hope to get back if the current owner was reading this?

Edited April 25, 2021 by Chiliwailer

[skej21]

I must admit, I don't have any. I own two basses at the moment that are 'keepers' (one of which I've had for 11 years now) but I honestly wouldn't sell them unless I was forced to.

Everything else comes and goes, like most things in life and I'm fine with that.

[KingBollock]

My first bass, a Westone Raider I. I sold it to the Nuneaton branch of Cash Converters about a million (somewhere between 15 and 20) years ago. I adored that bass but it was either that or not eat that month (odd how having a wife can effect you. I had gone hungry many times in the past without ever considering selling my bass. And it wasn't even my fault we were skint!). Having said that, if I hadn't sold it It would probably still be my only bass, and I do love my BC Rich and my Cort.

Edited January 10, 2015 by KingBollock

[Lozz196]

Yep, last year I was lucky enough to buy back my black/black/maple 78 Precision and my white/mint green/maple 2008 US Precision. I sold both for stupid reasons, and good fortune meant that I was able to get them back.

[Truckstop]

I wish I'd never sold on my '84 Ibanez Blazer. Bought it off FlatEric and used it solidly for 18 months. I bloody loved that thing I did. I think I fell out of love with the natural finish and stupidly moved it on. Tone in spades and lovely worn in maple neck. I used the money to buy my current squeeze (BB424x) so it's not all bad I suppose.

Truckstop

[AndyTravis]

Had a custom shop 64 White Jazz Bass.

Sold it to get my beautiful (now) wife out of some deep trouble.

I know where it is. Offered to buy it back 3 times so far...

[essexbasscat]

Two;
- A maple/maple 73 precision with white scratchplate helped to fund my first Goodfellow. Ah well......

- Hohner Jack, from new. Light, great pickups, cigarette paper action, faultless build. Why did I sell this ? DOH !

[Moos3h]

My Brandoni jazz. Think it went to Theosd on here but BassKS had it for a while too.

Bloody loved that bass. I'm an idiot.

[Moos3h]

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Sold it to get my beautiful (now) wife out of some deep trouble.
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Ah, so she's beautiful NOW

[Paul S]

I had a Silver Series Precision that was absolutely brilliant. Tone to die for, lightweight, slim neck, and it was black with a black plate. At the time it was duplicating the bitsa that I used most of the time so I stupidly decided to sell it - someone on Basschat called Tom bought it. Unfortunately I deleted the PM correspondence and can't remember anything else about him, so now can't get in touch to see if he wants to sell it back (TOM?). Although last I remember hearing he was in love with it.

[Clarky]

Around 3 years ago I sold on a BassChat regular in the FS forums, an early 70s sunburst Precision that had been modded to have a Jazz width ebony fretless board, with added J pickup (so, a PJ fretless, cutting to the chase!) Think it was previously owned by BassBod, Beedster, Shaggy and possibly others.

Did my first ever fretless recording on it and it was like a comfy pair of old slippers, in retrospect the nicest fretless I have ever owned.

Sold it to a BCer who I have since nagged ceaselessly to sell back to me .... and he unsurprisingly won't (I wouldn't either)!

[gafbass02]

There's a few, but two of particular note. A honey violin Warwick streamer LX, and a '92 stingray in natural. Utterly gutted about both in particular to this day.

[Kiwi]

None for me - all my sales have been made for the right reasons. Still kicking myself about letting the status necked musicman mongrel I put together go for silly money. A regular on here has is now and had it refinished in black,

[andytoad]

I'm still trying to find my old P, anyone seen her?! 😃

[AndyTravis]

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Ah, so she's beautiful NOW
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Haha, she's now my wife, she's been beautiful since 1987 when I first saw her in nursery.

Good things come to those who wait, hoping the Jazz follows suit.

[FuNkShUi]

My alfonso Iturra 5 string.
I would love to have that back

[Oneandfive]

Not many. Only ever owned basses. Miss the Egmond (Super 8, I think) from my teens, not for its ludicrous neck dive or feeble output, but because I got it when I was 15.
And my Shaftesbury R&&&Kfekker copy with grafted-on Gibson pickup. (Classy guy, me).Much better than you might think.

[Oneandfive]

Only ever owned eight basses, that should be.

[Horizontalste]

Let this one go after having it for about six or seven years.
Played beautifully & I didn't realise I was so attached to it until it drove off down the M6.
I'd buy it back in a heartbeat.

[ead]

Sold a Spector SSD NS-94 that I wish I hadn't. Would buy it right back if I ever saw it for sale.

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Edited January 10, 2015 by ead

[Dood]

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Shame the pictures are round the wrong way, but here's a bass I'd like to track down! It was a 69ish (Ash?) P bass body that had been (as far as I can tell) stripped and refinished. The neck wasn't original and I suspect it was a US RI neck. The neck was dated 1982. It was an unusual P bass that had a pickup with Allen Key shaped poles, suggesting that it could have been a dimarzio. The neck IIRC was heavily figured and possibly bird's eye. Topping off the spec was a set of reverse Kluson keys, headstock strap button and black pickguard.

The artwork was a window sticker, thus came straight off without residue and the thumb rest was also removed before sale but would have left two screw holes behind.

I think a guy from Bury St Edmunds bought it from me, but this was well over 15 years ago!!!

I'm off to find some clearer pictures, but I have to say, this was one awesome sounding bass!

[AndyTravis]

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Sold a Spector SSD NS-94 that I wish I hadn't. Would buy it right back if I ever saw it for sale.

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I had a cherry burst one with Amber L.E.D's.

Was a great bass.

[rubis]

A fretless Wal custom Mk1, it had birdseye maple facings and an unlined ebony fingerboard. It looked and sounded beautiful, but I got bored with bassplaying when the band I was in split so I traded it for a red strat and a vox at a shop (Kings Music?) in Sunderland in 1989 just before I left home.
I should have been hit over the head with a stocking full of sh*t!
I miss it more than Fleagle the beagle, who obviously was a dog, and my best friend!

Edited January 10, 2015 by rubis

[Sean]

2003 Lakland DJ4. Gutted. Moment of madness. Need it back.

[Bassman Sam]

This baby. I sold it on here and know who has it. Unfortunately, he sent it off to have LED's fitted on the side fret markers and the guy drilled through the fretboard and ruined it. It wouldn't be the same with a new neck.

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