Does anyone else name their basses if so what are their names

[Alan Ace Cooper]

CHRISTINE!

Nice!! My Mama's name was Christine. I named a P Bass after her in the 80s. When I sold that bass, she was kinda hurt about it! LOL!!

 

[MD]

I name everything. Basses, fiddles, firearms, vehicles, etc.. It's easy to keep track because I name them all Betty.

This type of thing has happened before...

 

[MYLOWFREQ]

I call them the "Black P, Sunburst J" etc.

 

[Brother Goose]

left to right: Farzana Fretless, Bertha Boogie, and Blanca Aguilar

 

[Brother Goose]

Bertha is having a mid life crisis and may soon sport sparkly green paint and another pickup

 

[EdwardofHuncote]

Perhaps oddly, some of mine have names that I know, and some have not yet told me what their names are.

 

[NOVAX]

I call them all 'baby'

 

[rogerbmiller]

I call this bass "Master"

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OMG is that the Mothman?

 

[Philibuster]

MIM J - Old Suzie
Hoppus Sig - Bluey
Hot Rod P - Lady
Elite P - TBD (not the actual name, I lieterally don't have a name for it yet)

 

[Crystalman85]

I have been nicknaming my basses in recent years. here are the nicknames I have given my bass guitars.

My Schecter stiletto extreme 5 I've nicknamed mer-low. the name comes from merlot and low-end. I gave it that name because it was pointed out that the color of my schecter bass(which is black cherry by the way) looks like the color of wine. so I came up with that name to live up to that observation.

My Ibanez sr305b I've nicknamed mega man. the reason why I named that bass mega man is because the color of the bass(which is navy metallic) reminds me of mega man. and yes I am a retro gamer.

My Yamaha trbx305 I've nicknamed mr. beef. I named my yamaha bass mr. beef simply because of the beefy punchy sounds that it provides.

Some honorable mentions of my past bass guitars. the yamaha bb235 I've previously owned I've nicknamed james bond because the black finish with the white pickup guard and the precision pickup does resemble a tuxedo and I've had secret agent in mind. so I was actually thinking james bond. and that's pretty much why I've nicknamed the bass james bond. and the douglas sculptor 5-string bass I use to own was nicknamed dougie by my former bandmates simply because of the brand name.

 

[Robbbb]

This type of thing has happened before...

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I named my custom dean metalman explorer betty

 

[west al]

Electric Lady

Windy

 

[Robbbb]

Electric Lady

Uncle Jack

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Cool basses

 

[shaggy45]

I never name them. It's either the Spector or sting ray or p bass. But I did name this one beautimus

 

[amper]

This is 玉子 (Tamako). "Tamako" means "little jewel", which is the same thing my name, "Gemma", means in Italian. 玉子 can also be read as "tamago" (more commonly written 卵), which means "egg", and as you can see, Tamako is Transparent Gold, the color of an egg yolk, and has an egg-shaped black pearl pickguard.

I hang a little Kimmidoll "Tamako" kokeshi figure from her gig bag:

I have not yet named my Warwick Corvette Proline. Maybe "Ursula", after my grandmother, because my Warwick is German and "Ursula" is a fairly common name in Germany. Maybe 熊子 "Kumako", which means the same thing in Japanese ("little bear"). Or maybe 楓 "Kaede" (maple), because:

 

[RhynoRock]

My Streamer I named Davis. That'll take some thinkin as to why if you wanna try and guess lol
My Rickenbacker is named Orville.

 

[Bigguy2017]

Usually not, but I find myself referring to the Minty Mex...

 

[herbygardener]

My main player is a bass called Wanda (Warwick Streamer), there's Irene my Ibanez acoustic, Sally my Squier Jazz, Junior my 3/4 size acoustic guitar and Bucky my 60's Yamaha FG300 acoustic guitar. Haven't named the keys or drums yet but Butch is a leading contender for the Pearl kit

 

[ppiluk]

1. Sweet and Lowe-Epiphone Thunderbird IV Classic Pro (Named after Garry Lowe from Big Sugar who passed away from Cancer)
2. Maybellene- Fender Frankenjag (I named this bass after the Chuck Berry song of the same name.)
3. Jimmy Jazz - 1991 Fender Jazz Bass w/Hi-Mass Bridge. Named after The Clash song of the same name.
4. Julie- 2018 Fender Players Series P-Bass. Named after Julie from The Clash song Julie's Been Working For The Drug Squad
5. Archer- Sterling By Music Man Ray 34. Obviously named after Sterling Archer.

 

[Cyborg]

I used to name all of mine in my early days. Then I started to acquire and flip a lot basses for several years and it wasn't worth the effort to name them any more.

Then my stable of basses became stable and I still haven't named anything.