I am emotionally attached to a bass that's taking up space and I don't want any more

[BigRedX]

I'm the process of selling off the last of the guitars and basses that I no longer use regularly. At one point I had over 40. When I'm finished I'll have 5 or 6. 

 

I did the same with all my keyboards and MIDI sound modules. Now I have a single controller keyboard for programming my DAW.

 

While it was nice to have a large musical instrument collection, IMO there's little point in owning things that I don't use and are unlikely to use any time soon. They are better off in the hands of people who will actually play them.

[Steve Browning]

2 hours ago, Geek99 said:

yours is more valuable; I invite you to consider those people on here who sold 60s and 70s basses for peanuts but now wish they had not done so. 
 

correlate much? 

 

This, this and this. Imagine the force with which you'd kick yourself if they were a Fender with a 3 digit serial number, or one of only 20 made. Whatever the rule is, do NOT sell it. I absolutely guarantee you'll live to regret it. Maybe not for a few years, but you will.

Edited 3 hours ago by Steve Browning

[Terry M.]

2 hours ago, kwmlondon said:

 but I just have no interest in 4-string basses any more so it sits in a case

This is why I think you need to say goodbye to it personally. Once I made the physical and mental switch to 5s all my 4s had to go but that's just me.

[chris_b]

1 hour ago, neepheid said:

. . . .  I have one rule - if it's not getting played, it's getting sold. . . .

 

I totally agree and that's my rule too. . . . with one exception!

[chris_b]

2 hours ago, Geek99 said:

. . . .  I invite you to consider those people on here who sold 60s and 70s basses for peanuts but now wish they had not done so.

 

 

This.

 

22 years ago I bought a Wal 5 string mk 3 for peanuts, played it for a few years and sold it for a bigger pile of peanuts. I wish I'd kept it. It would have been worth dozens of bags of peanuts now!!

[Geek99]

1 hour ago, Steve Browning said:

 

This, this and this. Imagine the force with which you'd kick yourself if they were a Fender with a 3 digit serial number, or one of only 20 made. Whatever the rule is, do NOT sell it. I absolutely guarantee you'll live to regret it. Maybe not for a few years, but you will.

Even “from a given specific era” seems to bestow the most magical and expensive qualities these days, rare serial number or limited edition not needed. Just enough that it came off a production line in a given year having been made the cheapest way. 

of course, whilst time has passed the wood has become magical

Edited 1 hour ago by Geek99

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

I bought my first Fender, a new cherry sunburst 1981 Precision when I was 18 and had to work all Summer in Bejams to afford it. It has had a few upgrades - HiMass bridge, aged pearl pickguard, EMG GZR pickup but lives in its case as the body is made of a special kind of ash that seems to be closely related to concrete. My bitza precision is much nicer to play, but I can't bear to part with the old one event though I hardly play it.

[Terry M.]

I believe there's "magic" in any bass from ANY era if the user believes there is rather than any intrinsic magic.It's all wood,magnets and screws with some strings attached ultimately. 

[Geek99]

10 minutes ago, Terry M. said:

I believe there's "magic" in any bass from ANY era if the user believes there is rather than any intrinsic magic.It's all wood,magnets and screws with some strings attached ultimately. 

Heathen! you blasphemer 

i think we need a stoning 

[MrFingers]

Dismantle it, that way it can be classifieds of "bass parts", and thus circumvents the rule.

In all seriousness, in this case: make an exception, and keep the 'Ray. You don't have to play it, you can lay it above a cupboard,...

[Geek99]

This. Just take the battery out and put some silicon sachets in the case 

[uk_lefty]

4 hours ago, kwmlondon said:

It'd be interesting. I'm not exactly in a rush.

 

My ideal situation would be giving it to one of my friends kids who is an aspiring bassist and seeing them play it when they do a set at Glastonbury! We can all have fantasies...

You could give them it as a loan with no end date, provided they keep it in good condition, don't swap parts, keep it well set up etc. Then when it's worth ten grand take it back and sell it.

[Geek99]

Actually, after giving out all this sage advice and great wisdom, I think we deserve some vintage ‘ray porn 

 

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