Ever bought the same bass twice?

[Fletz]

Hey all -

Have you ever bought a bass, sold it (due to GAS, talking yourself out of "needing it", etc), only to buy the same bass again later?

Last summer I talked myself into buying a used Tony Franklin fretless. I was of the mind (that many of us have been, I imagine) that "I should play fretless." After owning it and not playing it as much as I would have liked, I sold it in November and bought a P-Bass deluxe ... which I later traded for my Sting Ray. Well, recently I bought a J-bass Deluxe and not playing it at all (just my Geddy when I needed my J-fix) and, at the same time, found myself missing the fretless, more specifically the Franklin. So, I sold the deluxe and picked up a used Franklin again.

I do need to say that I think the Tony Franklin fretless is one of the best basses I've ever owned (twice).

Here's the collection as it stands today:

[birdman14]

Originally Posted by Fletz

Hey all -
Here's the collection as it stands today:

Do u like black basses?

[OmnitzGarima]

Originally Posted by Fletz

Have you ever bought a bass, sold it (due to GAS, talking yourself out of "needing it", etc), only to buy the same bass again later?

Not yet

[Dirk Diggler]

Yes although it's not really considered a bass, I sold a Warrguitar Artist 8 string, and recently got another since I was missing it so much. I thought I could live without it, 6 months later it was determined I couldn't.
Dirk

[Fletz]

Originally Posted by birdman14

Do u like black basses?

I dont like them. I LOVE them. (O & A reference).

[JxBass]

Yes, but it was during my "vintage collecting" period, so it made sense to have several old P-Basses, Ric 4001s, StingRays, etc.

[CTC564]

Yes...bought a second Spector NS-2 as well as a second Lakland 55-94

[JimB52]

No, but if I had the chance to buy back the trans-white 2000 Fender Jazz that weighed 8 lbs, that I sold on TB a few years back, I sure would.

[bass.player]

Twice a Geddy Lee and twice sold
Twice a Ric 4003 and twice sold
Twice a Fender Jazz new USA std and twice sold

I guess I could join this club.....

[atheos]

Yeah, sold my first (and then only) bass to a local music store to buy a guitar. Played guitar for about two years and then started to regret selling the first instrument I ever owned. About a year later turns out my friend is selling a bass he got from the local music store as a part of a summer job salary. Turns out it was the exactly same bass I sold about three years earlier. So I bought it from him and went back to playing bass. Won't sell it again, luckily it's now so beaten up that it wouldn't even have any monetary value

[Porkbun]

Ive owned two Hondo Rickenbacker Copies. Im selling my second one, but no doubt, in a few months ill find and buy another one. I dont sell them because I want to, but because I need the money... Perhaps a T40 will get me out of this cycle.

[hogbob]

Don't know if it counts as "the same" but I got my 2010 Fender American deluxe V, 3t sunburst in january.. Love it so much that I have ordered one more- just like it - except for the colour... The next will be White

[SteveC]

Yes, more than once - Jazz basses, rickenbackers, Laklands, Modulus, etc. Still trying to find one I can live with as my umpteenth jazz is now for sale.

You'd think I'd learn.....

[Snakepit72]

Originally Posted by Fletz

Hey all -

Have you ever bought a bass, sold it (due to GAS, talking yourself out of "needing it", etc), only to buy the same bass again later?

Last summer I talked myself into buying a used Tony Franklin fretless. I was of the mind (that many of us have been, I imagine) that "I should play fretless." After owning it and not playing it as much as I would have liked, I sold it in November and bought a P-Bass deluxe ... which I later traded for my Sting Ray. Well, recently I bought a J-bass Deluxe and not playing it at all (just my Geddy when I needed my J-fix) and, at the same time, found myself missing the fretless, more specifically the Franklin. So, I sold the deluxe and picked up a used Franklin again.

I do need to say that I think the Tony Franklin fretless is one of the best basses I've ever owned (twice).

Here's the collection as it stands today:

I haven't done something like this yet, but have plans to. I'm trying to sell my Geddy (I do like it a lot, but it's not my "holy grail" right now, and I'm a teenager without a job who can only realistically afford one bass at a time right now) to replace it with something else which feels more "me" at the moment, but I plan, in a few years, to replace the Geddy (hopefully with a 3ts rather than black, just my preference) when I've got the cash and the space to have more than one bass at once.

P.S. Awesome collection dude, pretty close to what my dream stable might look like

[andydye]

Yep, I did that with G&L, I had an L2000, sold it and then bought another only to sell that because I remembered they're nasty with strings older than 1 day...I now have a Stingray 5 and love it, I want another one to go with it but fretless this time

[Ric5]

3 of a kind ...

[Kenner]

I dug my first Epic enough to buy a second...

[AMJBASS]

I have a few times. The latest being my American Standard Jazz V.

[drewk]

For me, I've always had 2 (sometimes 3) music man basses, I do love them though...

[Grateful]

I have tried to buy a bass back that I sold, but missed it by a week. Maybe it will turn up again...