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Basses you will never sell..........show em
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You will all find this odd, but I have two Fender MB-5’s I’ll never sell. Lightweight, tight string spacing that I like and sound great. They are hard to find these days too. Surprisingly, they are getting expensive (guitar center has one for $975.99)
Probably the past 3 i have sold! I bought 2 different fenders as life-long, pass along to my son, basses. Sold them both!
Glad to see this old thread coming back around again! And yeah....I lied! I moved to Austin about a year after posting this and held on to this bass up until just about 2021....I got into playing country and some blue etc. as soon as we moved here and the Wick just didn't meet the criteria for what I was doing so it spent a lot of time in the closet. My bass teachers son used to hit me up regularly about my bass wanting to know if I would ever sell. After many no's had gone by he made an offer one day I couldn't refuse and I knew that bass would see little to zero playtime with me so I let it go. It gets used regularly even to this day so it's doing what it was made for.
I'd rather frame it as "the last bass I'd ever sell and only if absolutely forced to", but it would be this 60s American Original Jazz bass I bought used around 3 years ago. I'd only been playing a Squier Jazz with a horrible setup for like 20 years, and I didn't know a damn thing about basses when I got this (which was a blessing, in hindsight - I never got GAS...). I fell in love the second I started playing it in the store. Feels amazing, sounds amazing, I love everything about it. Currently it has a black pickguard and no ashtrays or thumbrest, but this is its original state. May change the pickguard back at some point just to mix it up. Not sure when this was manufactured tho, if anyone has that info I'd be glad to know it.
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I have always loved the F Bass. Such a pretty instrument, and I dig the purple color
. The "Zombie Drip" is my "Holy Grail"
. If I could find one I'd snatch it up...I don't care about the divorce papers 
. I would love to have one. Very cool
@Drifter8230
My only significant gripe about the AW is it has the stupid Spector bridge that barely accommodates a 120 B string. Some owners have had this problem on other Spectors, but it’s not universal. I can use a tapered string. I’ve considered hitting it with a file to fix the problem, but I’m currently liking the SIT Foundations with a 120 B and that string just barely slots in.
Is yours the same?
I have always loved the F Bass. Such a pretty instrument, and I dig the purple color
The "Zombie Drip" is my "Holy Grail"
My only significant gripe about the AW is it has the stupid Spector bridge that barely accommodates a 120 B string. Some owners have had this problem on other Spectors, but it’s not universal. I can use a tapered string. I’ve considered hitting it with a file to fix the problem, but I’m currently liking the SIT Foundations with a 120 B and that string just barely slots in.
Is yours the same?
Wow, I was not even aware that this was an issue until now! I have 3 other Spectors (Euro and Rebop) that are all 5 string, and I've been been using .45 to .125 strings for years now. I've never had any issue with re-stringing, intonation, "fit," etc...with the B-string
. They're all tuned from B standard to G# standard.Now I'm gonna go take a closer look
. Thanks for the heads up 
is is an ab1. you can see it on their website under the ab1 section. great bass! Only down side if f# strings dont last long.
Wow, I was not even aware that this was an issue until now! I have 3 other Spectors (Euro and Rebop) that are all 5 string, and I've been been using .45 to .125 strings for years now. I've never had any issue with re-stringing, intonation, "fit," etc...
Now I'm gonna go take a closer look
Post #4 in this old thread contains a quoted email response from Spector saying “oopsie, yeah they do that sometimes.”
Pretty irritating for a bass at that price point to have an issue like that. Especially a down-tuned metal bass where chances are users might go bigger than a 120.
Yea, definitely a quality assurance for sure. Agree that for that price point, that shouldn't be an issue at all! I took a look at my 2 older Rebop5 basses, which are well over 20 years old, and they're OK
. I'll keep this "in my back pocket' in case someone brings up the issue in the Spector Club, etc...Thanks man!!
My #1 at the moment is a counterfeit J-bass. Apparently I can't show it or sell it – at least not here. 
I don't think I've ever owned any bass that I could truthfully say I would never sell, but I have a couple right now that qualify as much as any of them have. I was a Fender guy for years, but after finding a replacement for the fretless Sabre I had in high school after almost two decades of low-key searching, I ended up jumping on the fretless Pino reissue when it came out. The Stingray has quickly become my #1.
