So, just how many basses do you own ????

[Kiwi]

13 hours ago, cetera said:

HAGSTROM Super Swede "Rutger Gunnarsson" (Dark Mahogany)

I want one of these sooooo badly.  They sound gorgeous and I'm a big Gunnarsson fan.  

[Nothingman]

On 14/08/2020 at 15:25, cetera said:

Damn.... two more added to the stable (in bold). I really should sell a few now....

 

(PRE-KRAMER) SPECTOR SB-1 USA 1976 (Walnut/Maple)
(PRE-KRAMER) SPECTOR NS-2 USA (Cherry Sunburst)
(KRAMER) SPECTOR NS-2 USA (Black)
(KRAMER) SPECTOR NS-2 USA (Black)
(KRAMER) SPECTOR NS-2 USA (Gloss White)
(KRAMER) SPECTOR NS-2 USA (Tobacco Sunburst)
(KRAMER) SPECTOR NS-2 USA (Red/Black Lava Crackle) - Ex-Barry Dunaway (Yngwie Malmsteen Band)
(KRAMER) SPECTOR NS-2 USA (Red Stain)
(KRAMER) SPECTOR NS-2A (Gloss White)
(KRAMER) SPECTOR NS-2A (Black)
(KRAMER) SPECTOR NS-2A (Black)
(KRAMER) SPECTOR NS-2A (Teal)
SPECTOR NS-2 USA (Custom Holoflash Black & Abalone)
SPECTOR NS-2X USA 'Spectorbird' (Tobacco Sunburst & Abalone)
SPECTOR Euro CR (Holoflash Black)
SPECTOR Euro CRFM(Dark Purple Stain)
SPECTOR Euro CRFM (Plum Stain quilt)
SPECTOR Euro CRFM (Forest Green quilt)
SPECTOR Euro LX (Gloss White)
SPECTOR Euro LX ‘Ian Hill’ (Black)
SPECTOR Euro LX 'Rachel Bolan' (Black/Silver Sparkle)
SPECTOR Euro LX (Black Stain quilt)
SPECTOR Euro LT (Violet Fade quilt)
SPECTOR Euro NS-2 JA-CR Euro RI (Gloss White)
SPECTOR Euro NS-2 JA-CR Euro RI (Black)
SPECTOR Legend 4X (Holoflash Black)
SPECTOR Legend 4X (Black Stain)
STUART SPECTOR DESIGN NS-4 Euro (Red Stain)
DINGWALL D-Bird (Blue/Purple Colourflip)
WAL Mk1 Fretless (Mahogany with Stained Maple facings)
WAL Mk1 “Geddy Lee” (Black with Gold Hardware)
FENDER Precision ‘70’s Jap RI “Phil Lynott” (Black/Mirror)
FENDER Precision '70's Classic' Jap RI (sunburst/Blocks on maple board)
FENDER Precision ’62 Jap RI (Vintage White/Red Tort)
FENDER FSR Precision PJ Deluxe Active (Sea Foam Metallic) 1 of 150
FENDER FSR Precision 70's RI (Nat Ash)
FENDER Jazz Bass Special Japan "Duff McKagan" (White Sparkle)
FRANKENSTEIN Tele neck/P body '"Billy Sheehan - The Wife"
JACKSON "Kip Winger" Sig (Cherry Lacewood)
JACKSON TBX-Pro ‘Jacksonbird’ 1 of 56 made (Black)
JACKSON Ontario ‘Concert Bass’ (White)
HAMER Impact USA (Black & Gold ‘Marble’)
HAMER Impact USA (Red)
HAMER Scarab USA ‘Rick Savage’ (White)
KRAMER Forum I (Flipflop Blue)
KRAMER Ferrington Electro/Acoustic (Black)
ESP The Surveyor 1984 (Blue Stain with Blue fingerboard!)
ESP PPJ-160 ‘Masayoshi Yamashita’ Sig Model (White)
ESP/Zep-II PPJ-160 ‘Masayoshi Yamashita’ Sig Model (Black)
PEAVEY RJ-IV “Randy Jackson” Sig Model (Red Sunburst)
PEAVEY RJ-IV “Randy Jackson” Sig Model (Grey/Silverburst)
PEAVEY “Rudy Sarzo” Sig Model (Dark Natural)
TOKAI ‘Hard Puncher’ P (Black/Mirror)
TOKAI Works TW801? (Black)
FERNANDES MV-65NS “Nikki Sixx’ Non-Reverse Spectorbird (Black)
FERNANDES MV-65NS “Nikki Sixx’ Non-Reverse Spectorbird (Black)
FERNANDES MV-65NS “Nikki Sixx’ Non-Reverse Spectorbird (Black)
FERNANDES TB Ltd Edition ‘Thunderbird’ (Off-White)
YAMAHA BB3000 (Black Sparkle)
ARIA CSB Black & Gold (Black)
G&L Tribute Legacy L-2000 (Honey)
PEDULLA Buzz Deluxe Fretless (Black)
HARTKE XK-4 Active (Black/Chrome)
GUILD Pilot (Purple Burst)
GUILD Pilot (Red)
MUSICMAN USA Sub Stingray (Black)
HAGSTROM Super Swede "Rutger Gunnarsson" (Dark Mahogany)
EPIPHONE Thunderbird Vintage Pro (Black)
EPIPHONE Thunderbird Vintage Pro (Tobacco Burst)
ITALIA Imola GP "Ricky Phillips" (White)
HOHNER B2A w/D-Tuner (Black)
HARLEY BENTON PB-20 Precision (Matt Black)
FELINE/SPECTOR "Gene Simmons SB-1" Copy (Black)
FELINE/KRAMER "Gene Simmons Axe" 1980 Hybrid (Black/Silver)
PUNISHER "Gene Simmons" Ltd. Edition (Signed/#’d) (Black)
AXE "Gene Simmons" Ltd Edt (Signed/#’d) (Black/Silver)
CORT “Gene Simmons Axe-2” (Black/Silver)
CORT “Punisher GS-2” (Black)
STACCATO MG Active (1 of 34 made) (Black/Magnesium Alloy)

I also have 10 'guitards'....

Is there a word for feeling disgusted but in awe at the same time? 🤣

[PaulThePlug]

@ Nothingman... Do you own a bass shop?

Edited August 16, 2020 by PaulThePlug

[Nothingman]

4 minutes ago, PaulThePlug said:

@ Nothingman... Do you own a bass shop?

Haha. I couldn’t do the weekends. 

[Lozz196]

I’m currently on five :

Fender US Standard Precision x 2

Fender US Professional Jazz x 2

Fender US Deluxe Active Precision 

[Black Coffee]

4 currently - (offically)

 

1 x spector coda 4 str

1 x ibanez 5 string

1 x fender deluxe jazz 5 str

1 x fender jazz 4 str

 

multiple covet items not included

[alyctes]

Still way too many.

[alyctes]

On 20/05/2020 at 08:49, CamdenRob said:

“It’s one of the good ones” - Used when selling a Fender bass from the 70s to assure a buyer this particular instrument was on the right side of Fenders notoriously iffy QC at the time... Although as every bass sold on BC seems to be “one of the good ones” I’m not sure where this accusation comes from 🤔 

Forty years of weeding out the bad ones will surely help...

[Paul S]

Hmm.

Mahrooschick Jake 5

Peavey Foundation 5

Gibson Thunderbird

Gibson LP DC

Squier JV Precision

Harley Benton Shorty Precision

Hondo Alien, modded.

Hohner B2B

Honcore - my 32" scale Hondo/Encore bitsa.

Sprackenbacker.

2 that don't count

Stagg EUB, modded.

Sigma electro-acoustic

So 10, if you don't count the two that don't count.

Not too bad, I've usually had more.

 

[Dov65]

Fender US Performer Jazz

Fender US Standard Jazz (incoming)

Fender US Pro Precision (Selling)

Fender US Flea (MM Pickup)

Spector Euro 4LX

Spector LE 77 

Kramer Forum III

Sandberg Forty Eight

[StickyDBRmf]

I had to check to make sure I didn't reply yet. Hope I'm not incorrect. This is what's left, or what's been aquired, in order...

Ibanez 8-string, de-fretted with a claw hammer

DanElectro Longhorn Re-issue. The cheap, real re-issue, not the one with "better" hardware

ESP LTD

Hartke Bass P/J w/ burned-out P, defretted w/ a soldering iron (I talked to my luthier this time) 

Ibanez Acoustic AEB5E-BK 3U-01 (it's a cheap one that was given to me, it's fun to hash around on)

And then there are my two Chapman Sticks, one mid-80's Ironwood, and my '08 Bamboo Grand

 

[StickyDBRmf]

I should add the Grand is Dual Bass Reciprocal and it's the only one I play daily...

[BassBus]

Well, I've run out of fingers to count them but what I do know is I have far to many and not nearly enough. 😉 

[dmccombe7]

6 minutes ago, BassBus said:

Well, I've run out of fingers to count them but what I do know is I have far to many and not nearly enough. 😉 

Toes count too you know. 

Dave

[BassBus]

23 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

Toes count too you know. 

Dave

But I'm too old to bend down and count my toes 😄 

[Paul S]

1 hour ago, StickyDBRmf said:

I had to check to make sure I didn't reply yet. Hope I'm not incorrect. This is what's left, or what's been aquired, in order...

Ibanez 8-string, de-fretted with a claw hammer

DanElectro Longhorn Re-issue. The cheap, real re-issue, not the one with "better" hardware

ESP LTD

Hartke Bass P/J w/ burned-out P, defretted w/ a soldering iron (I talked to my luthier this time) 

Ibanez Acoustic AEB5E-BK 3U-01 (it's a cheap one that was given to me, it's fun to hash around on)

And then there are my two Chapman Sticks, one mid-80's Ironwood, and my '08 Bamboo Grand

 

 

Damnation, I forgot, I also have a Danelectro 56 single cutaway.  Oops.

[dmccombe7]

1 hour ago, BassBus said:

But I'm too old to bend down and count my toes 😄 

That's what wives / partners are for @BassBus 

[BassBus]

11 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

That's what wives / partners are for @BassBus 

But wives are too busy counting the number of shoes and handbags they have. [duck, incoming]

[dmccombe7]

4 minutes ago, BassBus said:

But wives are too busy counting the number of shoes and handbags they have. [duck, incoming]

Aye ye got me there. Can't argue with that one. Yir goosed mate.

Dave

[Dov65]

On 16/08/2020 at 11:19, Lozz196 said:

I’m currently on five :

Fender US Standard Precision x 2

Fender US Professional Jazz x 2

Fender US Deluxe Active Precision 

What do you think about the V -Mod pickups in the Professional Jazz ? Seems to be some mixed owner reviews..cheers Dave 

[andruca]

Update!

L to R: 2003 Stingray5, 1997 Stingray5, 2011 WPS Star Bass 5, DIY fretless reverse P+J 5er, DIY Jazz Bass

[Lozz196]

39 minutes ago, Dov65 said:

What do you think about the V -Mod pickups in the Professional Jazz ? Seems to be some mixed owner reviews..cheers Dave 

I really like them Dave, I do think the Custom Shop 60s that were in the previous US Standards are a bit better but not to the point where I’ll replace the V-Mods, so there’s not much in it. Decent pickups, a bit more modern sounding is how I’d describe them.

[S.F.Sorrow]

38 (plus a baritone guitar that I sometimes use to double bass parts so I like to think of it as a bass rather than a guitar).

It's embarrassing really. My excuse is that I have recording studio and mostly do studio work these days so I need basses that will cover different sounds/genres. To be honest I don't really NEED them. A decent passive P-bass can work for pretty much anything and music is only a part time thing for me with very little money in it. But a P-bass is not always the BEST choice. And I'm a total gear nut so although I don't really need all these basses I still WANT them! 😁

Back when I was a "one band bassist" and played a lot more gigs I mostly just had a modded Squier Affinity P and a MIM Fender J as backup. They both sounded great and were cheap enough not to worry about damage or being stolen.

[S.F.Sorrow]

On 16/08/2020 at 18:29, StickyDBRmf said:

I had to check to make sure I didn't reply yet. Hope I'm not incorrect. This is what's left, or what's been aquired, in order...

Ibanez 8-string, de-fretted with a claw hammer

DanElectro Longhorn Re-issue. The cheap, real re-issue, not the one with "better" hardware

ESP LTD

Hartke Bass P/J w/ burned-out P, defretted w/ a soldering iron (I talked to my luthier this time) 

Ibanez Acoustic AEB5E-BK 3U-01 (it's a cheap one that was given to me, it's fun to hash around on)

And then there are my two Chapman Sticks, one mid-80's Ironwood, and my '08 Bamboo Grand

 

That's an impressive looking instrument! I've always been fascinated by the Chapman Sticks but I've never tried one. How long does it take to learn it properly? I imagine it must be so different from bass that you are starting pretty much from scratch even if you're a decent bass player?

[uk_lefty]

Today I'm on four basses, two guitars. One multi amp set up, one bass gig rig, one bass multi effects, a new guitar multi fx, an acoustic guitar multi fx.... A mic, mixer, zoom handheld recording device. 

I have no excuses. I have very little time to play but I like the chase of buying something and trying it out. Everything I have music wise is sellable, though I love my Kramer fretless as it was an 18th birthday gift, and my Stingray was bought brand new and would lose too much money if I sold it so I'm keeping it forever... And its my number 1 bass. I'd like other basses, currently listing after another fretless, but I don't think I'll bother. Really, 4 basses is at least 2 too many. 

The guitars? I want to get back in to writing songs and do some recording. I have an electro acoustic and a squier Telecaster, both are adequate for my dreadful guitar playing.