My first bass

[Jeff29361]

I finally got around to cleaning up my first ever bass today, I bought it in 1997 from a cash converters, I did the punk stuff with it then when I got a better one I put it in a cupboard, 100 basses later and it's one of the few I've kept, does anyone know what model it is, it's a shortscale encore, I know it's rubbish and worthless but it means a lot to me.

[Reggaebass]

That’s cleaned up really well, looks great 👍 

[2020Jazz]

Black is beautiful baby

[Rikki_Sixx]

Man those stickers tell a story! There's some great bands on there. I did the same on my first bass, and when it came time to remove the stickers someone told me that deoderant was a great way to remove the sticky residue. Probably sprayed half a can of Lynx on that old thing! 😅

[pst62]

That little short scale Encore is a US made Precision compared to the piece of crap that was my first, it was a single pickup version of the monstrosity below, it had an action you could drive a bus under, it met it's demise when the strap button screw gave way and it hit the ground and three of the cast metal stemmed machine heads snapped clean off.

[Reggaebass]

My first bass, Many have already seen it, but I’ll bore you again 😁, bought off a friend around 1979 , and it was fairly old then, it served me well playing in a few reggae bands for a good few years around east London , it now hangs on my summerhouse wall 🙂

[Waddo Soqable]

I guess most of us that started in the 70s had a variant of the short scale Jap / Woolworths crap things,  mine was a nasty red/black 'burst' single PU effort with a neck from that funny mid brown grainy wood stuff !

It was only used by me once for any kind of live performance, I subsequently borrowed a quite decent Jazz copy from a mate, and was well annoyed when he wanted it back

..in fact having looked on t'internet at 70s junk basses....this is pretty much the one I had, but I don't seem to remember  the scratchplate being at a wonky angle like that.. Then again it was 45 years ago or something!

..if you took the ashtray off as I recall there was a very nasty sharp metal bracket thing sticking up, just for you to rip your hand to shreds on...

I've no idea what became of it, I probably just swapped it for something random I expect..

 

Edited July 16, 2021 by Waddo Soqable