2022 Bass Acquisition Round Up

[B-Mac]

The last day of 2022 is about to come upon us and I thought I'd post my bass acquisitions for the year. I invite you to do the same even if you already sold any of them. Please post pix if you can.
Happy New Year, Y'All!!!!

• Peavey MIA Palaedium (1992) Purple passive bolt-on used
• Dean Performer Fretless ABG (2006) 32" scale MIK used
• Dean Motto 34-inch passive J (2012) bolt-on MIIndo used
• Dean Vendetta (2007) Trans Red Quilt Maple Top Active DMT Soap Bars demo bolt-on 34-inch MIK
• Dean Cadillac (2003?) P/J EMG HZ Active Set Neck MIK
• GMW Custom Cadillac w/Dean bolt-on Rio Grande Humbuckers Passive (2002?) MIA & MIK (neck)
• Dean Razor NT Active Trans Natural Quilt Maple Top Neck Thru J style pups (2001) 34-inch MIK
• Dean Hillsboro Select Fluence Roasted 34" bolt-on (2022) active used MIIndo
• Dean Performer DAO 32" ABG (2005) used MIK
• Samick Neck Thru 34" Duncan Designed pups active (2008) used
• Fender Victor Bailey signature ABG DOA (2006) used MIK
• Dean Exotica Zebra Wood (2014) A/E w/Aphex® Gloss Natural 34-inch used set MIC
• Jay Turser JRB-134 Semi-Hollow Flame Maple GN 34" MIK early 2000's

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My Eastwood MRG was ordered in September 2022 and was due to arrive in December 2022, but has been pushed back to January 2023, so that is not in the list.

 

[Ricky Rioli]

Just one in, a SB-1, bought to be my number one.

It took us a little while to get on the same page as one another — the neck is a little more shallow than my ideal, and it has quite a strong personality — but now very comfortable with it. Easy to play clean on, and has a beautifully deep warm tone.

 

[B-Mac]

Just one in, a SB-1, bought to be my number one.

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It took us a little while to get on the same page as one another — the neck is a little more shallow than my ideal, and it has quite a strong personality — but now very comfortable with it. Easy to play clean on, and has a beautifully deep warm tone.

Sweet!
I like that finish with the Tort. What do they call that? Is that a Tribute model or a USA model?

 

[Nunovsky]

I bought 4:
Hagstrom H8 II
Cordoba Mini II Bass
Harley Benton RB-414
Höfner Shorty Violin Bass

 

[Ricky Rioli]

Sweet!
I like that finish with the Tort. What do they call that? Is that a Tribute model or a USA model?

It's a USA build to order (there's no Tribute version of this model) Quartersawn neck (for its benefit in the long term), very light empress body (for my benefit in the long term) and Pharaoh Gold Firemist finish (which is a standard option for the CLF Research L-1000 and -2000)

The tort is great in theory but in practice isn't coping with the dull British weather very well. A parchment replacement is coming.

 

[B-Mac]

View attachment 4917643 View attachment 4917636 View attachment 4917638 View attachment 4917639 I bought 4:
Hagstrom H8 II
Cordoba Mini II Bass
Harley Benton RB-414
Höfner Shorty Violin Bass

How's that HB? What scale is it?

 

[JRA]

i have one "2022 bass." it's a humdinger of a PJ. and it happens to be my most expensive pile of parts to date!

i've posted it all over TB this year, but maybe another pic of it is in order:

edit: and happy new year to you, @B-Mac, and to all TB members!

 

[Pings Bass]

2022 might be the first year since I joined TalkBass that i did not buy a single bass. I'm pretty GAS free on the bass front, but there's always percussion on the need list.

 

[B-Mac]

i have one "2022 bass." it's a humdinger of a PJ. and it happens to be my most expensive pile of parts to date!

i've posted it all over TB this year, but maybe another pic of it is in order:

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edit: and happy new year to you, @B-Mac, and to all TB members!

Man, that Filipe Santiago dude does nice work! I like how you itemize your mods. Its all right there.
Very nice Blue Burst if that is what you'd call it. All your mods are very classy looking.
Much more than lipstick on a pig.
Like that blue edge on the black pick guard.
Happy New Year to you and yours @JRA !!!!!!!!!

 

[B-Mac]

2022 might be the first year since I joined TalkBass that i did not buy a single bass. I'm pretty GAS free on the bass front, but there's always percussion on the need list.

 

[rodak]

First bass I've bought in about 20 years. Squier Precision, bought from a fellow TB-er. Not the greatest pic, but you get the idea. First Precision I've ever owned. Old-school bass, old-school amp.

 

[ahbass2500]

My 2 bass purchases in 2022 both came direct from G&L’s webstore.

It is the wrong thread for it, but I also picked up a guitar.

 

[B-Mac]

Oddly enough my 2 bass purchases in 2022 both came direct from G&L’s webstore.

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It is the wrong thread for it, but I also picked up a guitar.

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[Bartrinsic]

Tort is apparently a favorite meal of crocodiles. . .or is it the other way around?

 

[ahbass2500]

Tort is apparently a favorite meal of crocodiles. . .or is it the other way around?

It goes deeper than that. Favorite meal of cows posing as alligators.

For anyone missing my really bad joke… the strap is Moody’s Faux Gator (made from leather). Admittedly that strap is pretty visually loud on that guitar. I like it though.

 

[Nedmundo]

I bought one bass in 2022, which I received last week: Sandberg California TT-5 Superlight. It's the first new bass I've bought since 2014, and is intended to be my lifetime five-string J-bass. (I bought a used G&L JB-5 in 2019 for this role, but it didn't work out and didn't last long.)

So far, it's been fantastic in just about every respect. The playability is just stellar IMO, and even though I normally prefer passive, the preamp sounds good. The construction is impeccable. Slightly weak A string output, especially in the lower frets, is the only negative. I think this is most likely an issue with the string itself or is caused by the flush polepieces (no raised poles for the A). I suspect the latter. I'm going to install a different A string to help figure this out. I hope to get it sorted soon, because I want to rock it for the next round of the adult band camp I've joined, which has been a blast. (I'd probably end up playing my G&L SB-2 for the shows, but still...)

I also bought a guitar in 2022, a G&L Legacy HSS. Excellent guitar, but I haven't played it much.

 

[gazzatriumph]

Just a Maruszczyk short scale custom probably my last purchase, unusually for a new bass I liked it when first got it and it's really grown on me the more I've gigged and practice with it. There wasn't a honeymoon period with this one it's grown on me more and more.

 

[Geri O]

Not a new one, not an essential player, just a 1980 Peavey T-40 that needed a good home. NOT in a dark damp closet, but out on a guitar stand in my studio/office.
And I bought myself a new bass wireless system AND a new wireless IEM system.

 

[Bartrinsic]

Just one for 2022. Possibly the last Super-J we'll ever see with a blacked-out, maple neck and a glossy matching headstock. Apparently the finish work on the headstock was extremely difficult to get right. Ordered in June 2021, delivered in November 2022. It took all that time to save up the cash balance. I'm certainly not worthy, but I'm very happy and not in debt.

 

[Bartrinsic]

It goes deeper than that. Favorite meal of cows posing as alligators.

For anyone missing my really bad joke… the strap is Moody’s Faux Gator (made from leather). Admittedly that strap is pretty visually loud on that guitar. I like it though.

I think its AWESOME!