Choosing a "forever bass?"

[AMJBASS]

I've gone through more basses than I care to admit, but I always come back to P-basses. So last year I decided to commission a bass from Dave Reimer out of Vancouver. Its essentially an exact reissue of a '61 with the one exception of a slightly flatter radius(by request). Dave builds everything from scratch and puts a ton of care into his basses. I was so thrilled with it I had him build me another one that is a bit more custom. 1.5" nut, figured maple neck with a thicker jazz profile front to back, Honduran rosewood fingerboard, ash body with super thin charcoal frost finish in nitro(lets the grain pop through), and aged gotoh hardware. It kills. Its my forever bass. Feels great, looks great, sounds even better!

*** the fingerboards on each of them are from the exact same piece of rosewood.

 

[BigBluez]

I have yet to find my forever bass... But I have one on the way, and hope springs eternal.

 

[BigBluez]

View attachment 5108454 For me, it is this Rob Allen mouse. I can’t put it down.

I've never played a Rob Allen, but every one I hear sounds incredible.

 

[joel the bass player]

Mine have all been forever basses because I am terrible at selling them.

 

[msb]

Rather than a forever bass I wound up with a pile of different ones. Each one has its moments where I’m thankful to play it.

 

[marchone]

I have a pretty darn good quiver of five basses right now. It took a plan and several years to accomplish. See my Sig line. It’s possible two could be replaced/upgraded. If I don’t, they’re all Forever Basses. For now anyway.

 

[bigdaddybass12]

My "forever bass" is the next one....or maybe the one after that.

yes on this, maybe my next pawn shop find !! That reminds me to stop by and check what they got !!

 

[Marty Forrer]

A Fender P with TJ Flats, Epic Custom pickup and Hipshot USA UltraLite tuners is my forever bass. In the 90s and early 2000s I had 5 and 6 stringers, more recently I had an affair with Jazz basses, but the P has been my constant through all that, just waiting patiently. Now it's time has come. The Jazz neck is too narrow for me, the Jazz style pickups are not as fat and dont sit in the mix as well as the P, and I'm done tinkering to improve things. P rocks.

 

[J-Mags]

The basses that you still own when you die are your forever basses.