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Beater bass

#23
Xandrell said:
Mine's a SRA 300. Cost $100. Looks new. Although all my basses could be considered beater basses. Nothing over $700.
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I'd never heard of the SRA300. Looked it up and wow, a lot of bass for the $100 you scored it at. Passive EMG's, and a classier sculpted body than the previous generation, without the front routed input jack of the newest gen.... that's awesome!
 
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#24
$120 Used Affinity JV...with mods...

I actually keep it in my work truck wrapped up in an old Cathartt jacket and Armaflex around the neck...during lunch, plug it into the Aux Jack of the radio - instant amp! (Just need adapters to go from mono to stereo)

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Coil-tap switch
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My beater isn't necessarily any less valuable than some of my other basses, but if I had a show where rain, damage, chips, or having to use the bass as a weapon was a possibility I'd bring my '95 MIM P-bass. It's been modded to heck and already has lots of chips and dings. Being my first bass, it's got alot of sentimental value, but it'd be the easiest to replace, repair, or find new parts for if it got damaged.

None of my basses is worth much more than $800 ( most quite a bit less) and except for my very clean '79 T-40 -which still goes out to some gigs- and a rather fragile vintage scroll viola bass I'd take any of my basses to all but the most risky gigs.

Here it is, complete with hammertone sprayed pickguard. The only remaining original parts are the neck, nut, string tree, body, neckplate and screws.
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Eilif said:
My beater isn't necessarily any less valuable than some of my other basses, but if I had a show where rain, damage, chips, or having to use the bass as a weapon was a possibility I'd bring my '95 MIM P-bass. It's been modded to heck and already has lots of chips and dings. Being my first bass, it's got alot of sentimental value, but it'd be the easiest to replace, repair, or find new parts for if it got damaged.

None of my basses is worth much more than $800 ( most quite a bit less) and except for my very clean '79 T-40 -which still goes out to some gigs- and a rather fragile vintage scroll viola bass I'd take any of my basses to all but the most risky gigs.

Here it is, complete with hammertone sprayed pickguard. The only remaining original parts are the neck, nut, string tree, body, neckplate and screws.
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I think having a solid dependable beater bass is a Beautiful thing. Nice axe!
 
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2006 squier affinity P bass. Picked it up for $90 at a pawnshop while my main bass was getting repaired. I needed a bass and there it was. It was a cream color I don't have a picture of it then but it's red now. I really started to Like it after playing it for a while but the sound was decent at best. I bought some fender '62 p bass pickups and put them in and the bass really came to life. I left it at that for a long while and used it for everything! It got pretty beat up going back and forth between school, rehearsal, and gigs. Eventually I felt like switching to fretless so I converted it and turned out nice. After that I went back to using it for everything until I got my thunderbird. Some time after that I refinished it. Now I'm coming back to playing it again haha. It's definitly my beater bass and probably the one I'm most sentimentaly attached to. And will probably keep coming back to as long as I play bass. Talk about not caring what the headstock says too!!!!
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Az_Rocker76 said:
2006 squier affinity P bass. Picked it up for $90 at a pawnshop while my main bass was getting repaired. I needed a bass and there it was. It was a cream color I don't have a picture of it then but it's red now. I really started to Like it after playing it for a while but the sound was decent at best. I bought some fender '62 p bass pickups and put them in and the bass really came to life. I left it at that for a long while and used it for everything! It got pretty beat up going back and forth between school, rehearsal, and gigs. Eventually I felt like switching to fretless so I converted it and turned out nice. After that I went back to using it for everything until I got my thunderbird. Some time after that I refinished it. Now I'm coming back to playing it again haha. It's definitly my beater bass and probably the one I'm most sentimentaly attached to. And will probably keep coming back to as long as I play bass. Talk about not caring what the headstock says too!!!!View attachment 865689
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The fingerboard really did come out nice! What did you fill the fret slots with?
 

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