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

[kwmlondon]

5 hours ago, W1_Pro said:

I'd have kept it. Then again I've only ever sold one bass.  An Aria PB500 Precise and I regret it to this day.  I'm up to about ninety now. I know that folks have this 'it deserves to be played' thing going and I absolutely think that is a very cool way to deal with the issue of too many basses. However, for me, getting rid of a bass would be like selling one of the kids. Unthinkable. 

I can relate and I am envious to some extent… but I know this is going to be pure heresy … I recon I only need one bass. My owning  three is sheer indulgence. I will feel sad when the ‘ray goes tomorrow but I think it will be liberating.

[Geek99]

At a mere three you are a comparative miser

i have three but they are all different (honest)

one acoustic, one active four, one five string 

 

[Geek99]

5 hours ago, W1_Pro said:

I'd have kept it. Then again I've only ever sold one bass.  An Aria PB500 Precise and I regret it to this day.  I'm up to about ninety now. I know that folks have this 'it deserves to be played' thing going and I absolutely think that is a very cool way to deal with the issue of too many basses. However, for me, getting rid of a bass would be like selling one of the kids. Unthinkable. 

I’m hugely impressed that you've actually lost count 

[kwmlondon]

6 minutes ago, Geek99 said:

At a mere three you are a comparative miser

i have three but they are all different (honest)

one acoustic, one active four, one five string 

 

I did spend the budget on the Canadian Dingwall.  The other two are cheap as chips!

[W1_Pro]

7 hours ago, Geek99 said:

I’m hugely impressed that you've actually lost count 

I do have a spreadsheet...and most of them live at my work (we supply equipment for events) so I'm very fortunate there. The biggest problem I find when you have a slightly silly number of basses is what you do with the cases. They take up a lot of room!

[kwmlondon]

22 minutes ago, W1_Pro said:

I do have a spreadsheet...and most of them live at my work (we supply equipment for events) so I'm very fortunate there. The biggest problem I find when you have a slightly silly number of basses is what you do with the cases. They take up a lot of room!

I have a friend who is a very successful musician and he collects guitars. He has special things that look like giant filing cabinets. 

[Geek99]

3 hours ago, W1_Pro said:

I do have a spreadsheet...and most of them live at my work (we supply equipment for events) so I'm very fortunate there. The biggest problem I find when you have a slightly silly number of basses is what you do with the cases. They take up a lot of room!

Watch the John entwhistke vid 

[Jack]

3 hours ago, W1_Pro said:

I do have a spreadsheet...and most of them live at my work (we supply equipment for events) so I'm very fortunate there. The biggest problem I find when you have a slightly silly number of basses is what you do with the cases. They take up a lot of room!

I just get rid of the cases. If I know I'm keeping a bass "forever" then I sell the case and it lives in the thinnest of Thomann gig bags as essentially a dust cover. That way you can really cram them in.

 

When something leaves the house it goes in one of my two Mono bags.

[basexperience]

I've still got the parts from my original bass (1988) - a Hohner Arbor, which was originally in a flake metallic white. Humbucker at the bridge and a split coil on the front. Wasn't a bad bass, did well with it for a couple of years while I started trying to crank out Iron Maiden 😄 I recontoured the body because I was obsessed with Ibanez's (which I couldn't afford) and it didn't come out too bad, but I didn't seal the body that well and it is a laminate body, so it's got plenty of cracks. Haven't looked at it in years - it's in the loft with the neck(!). The body got a fretless totally flat Warmoth neck on it (a beauty, now lives on a nice allparts body) and it didn't do the neck justice at all for a very long time.

 

Next bass (which is still in one piece) is a beautiful, extremely light 4 string Aria GTB-2J (secondhand from a friend in 1990, IIRC) - ironically also in metallic white. I still have it and it's strung very very light (30-90) for ridiculous slap and tap stuff. Early 90s, I got a Hohner B-bass V, which I put an OBP-3 in several years ago. I still have that too... bought with inheritance from a wonderful grandfather. I couldn't part with it, although I don't play it much at all now: it is wonderfully playable, though.

 

After that, things got a little out of hand (I think I have 15 now...) - but I know it'd be some kind of world-ending event before I sold the Aria or the Hohner.

[kwmlondon]

Bye bye....

[kwmlondon]

1 hour ago, basexperience said:

I've still got the parts from my original bass (1988) - a Hohner Arbor, which was originally in a flake metallic white. Humbucker at the bridge and a split coil on the front. Wasn't a bad bass, did well with it for a couple of years while I started trying to crank out Iron Maiden 😄 I recontoured the body because I was obsessed with Ibanez's (which I couldn't afford) and it didn't come out too bad, but I didn't seal the body that well and it is a laminate body, so it's got plenty of cracks. Haven't looked at it in years - it's in the loft with the neck(!). The body got a fretless totally flat Warmoth neck on it (a beauty, now lives on a nice allparts body) and it didn't do the neck justice at all for a very long time.

 

Next bass (which is still in one piece) is a beautiful, extremely light 4 string Aria GTB-2J (secondhand from a friend in 1990, IIRC) - ironically also in metallic white. I still have it and it's strung very very light (30-90) for ridiculous slap and tap stuff. Early 90s, I got a Hohner B-bass V, which I put an OBP-3 in several years ago. I still have that too... bought with inheritance from a wonderful grandfather. I couldn't part with it, although I don't play it much at all now: it is wonderfully playable, though.

 

After that, things got a little out of hand (I think I have 15 now...) - but I know it'd be some kind of world-ending event before I sold the Aria or the Hohner.

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