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My best advice would be to buy used. You almost always get more for less buying used. But if the goal is a new bass, punch up the budget another $50 and consider this: Hofner Ignition Club Bass - Sunburst The downsides are it's a short scale and you don't get a case at that price. Still...

I have to admit I have had a long held bias against Hofners. The diagonally set square plate with the pots a switches on it has always looked like an afterthought to me. I know, how it looks is hardly the most important consideration, but you need to like your instrument, right? Having said...

My Fender Kingman and Les Paul.

Now THAT is a beautiful instrument. Epiphones don't get a lot of love here on TalkBass, but I've always liked them. The Jack Casady is on my list, but that Zenith may edge it out, if I can get the WAF, (Wife Approval Factor).

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In Columbus? I remember that Bernie's too! No, I meant this one:

Without trying to hurt anyone's feelings I think $200 is closer to the actual value than $2000.

To paraphrase on an old military saying, there are only two really good basses; the one you just sold and the one you're about to buy.

Rics are worth at least twice whatever you pay for them. A red 4003 is on my bucket list.

Is there an extra zero in there?

I'll take this to it's logical conclusion and hope I'm not straying too far off topic for this forum. Bringing my new (used) bass home was a bit anti-climactic when I plugged it into my crappy 20 watt solid-state amp. As soon as I had paid my Dad back for the loan on the bass I turned around...

I'm betting almost everyone has seen a particular bass in a shop, online, in a Craigslist ad, and they knew immediately that they had to have it at any cost. My first bass was a Greco 930. I bought it in 1971 for $50 from an ad in the Tradin' Post and it was worth almost every penny. It was a...

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My first guitar was a Decca copy of a Telecaster. I bought it in '68 from a friend who had gotten it new as a birthday present two years earlier. Cost me $15. I remember that around Christmas the local Rexall drugs sold Teisco guitars bundled with a tiny plastic amp for around $50. Wikipedia...

The first bass that I ever wanted so bad I could taste it was a '69 Gibson EB0 slot-head. It was in a shop in downtown Dayton called Bernies, (does anyone else remember Bernies?). They sold it before I saved enough to buy it, and I ended up getting a '68 Telecaster bass, if you can imagine two...