How diverse is your bass collection?

[chadface]

I have been thinking of this lately and is how I justify new purchases and offloading some. I currently have:

5er - schecter stiletto elite
6er - hohner b bass vi (just got it yesterday)
4 string Semi Hollow - Ibanez artcore
4 string P/J - spector legend
4 string - Ltd b204

The last one is up for sale because it doesn't do anything the others can't. I like it but I feel like I have too many. Up until the last 6 months or so I only had 1 bass, the 5er. But I keep finding good deals so...

 

[Robscott]

I have been thinking of this lately and is how I justify new purchases and offloading some.Are we expected to justify new purchases? Jeez what next?
I currently have:

5er - schecter stiletto elite
6er - hohner b bass vi (just got it yesterday)
4 string Semi Hollow - Ibanez artcore
4 string P/J - spector legend
4 string - Ltd b204

The last one is up for sale because it doesn't do anything the others can't. I like it but I feel like I have too many. Up until the last 6 months or so I only had 1 bass, the 5er. But I keep finding good deals so...

 

[staurosjohn]

I have 1 of each!!

 

[BassGeekJack]

If my collection isn't diverse, does that make me "bassist?"

 

[B-Mac]

I do seem to have settled on makers I like best.

3 Sadowskys.
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Two Spectors.

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One Breedlove ABG

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And my Upton upright

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Everything I need to make low frequencies

Definitely diverse

 

[Doctor Intrepid]

As you can see there is a green one . . .

 

[FrenchBassQC]

American Special P-Bass
MM Players series J-Bass
Frankenstein P/J (Warmoth P-Bass body, MM P-bass neck)
Surine 6 string
Muckelroy Solo 5 string
Fodera Imperial Elite 5 string

I would say that this is all over the place.

 

[J_Bass]

I have a fair amount of diversity. For example, wood from Africa, North America, and Asia:

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And the material for this fingerboard was manufactured in a factory in New Jersey:View attachment 3376340 OK, I can't seem to find out where they actually make ebonol, but it's a factory somewhere, and probably not in a tropical forest. So, for now, I'm saying New Jersey.

Please tell us more about those basses.

 

[micguy]

Please tell us more about those basses.

Other than the fretless neck (Mighty Mite), they're all Warmoth wood, the circuits are...unusual, they're all under 8 pounds. Chambered bodies, aluminum hardware (even the neck plate and knobs). They're definitely one of a kind things, and as I sign my initials on the (reshaped) headstocks, they're all "signature" basses. I figure since the headstocks don't look like Fenders, or say Fender on them, they're less likely to "walk".

 

[Axstar]

My big four are:

1. Rickenbacker 4003. Mapleglo, currently strung with D'Addario roundwounds.
2. Fender MIM P bass, sunburst, currently strung with Fender flats.
3. Fender MIM PJ bass, white, currently strung with Status flats.
4. Dearmond Starfire, sunburst, currently strung with TI Jazz flats.

All my basses look like they fell out of the 1960s, and pretty much sound like it too. All four basses are rewired and have different pickups from stock. I guess I have a theme.

 

[CryingBass]

To itemize would be to confess

 

[B-Mac]

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5 String Squier VM P bass, Fender Modern Player Jazz V, 4 string Squier P ('62 pickups), Custom Eastwood Classic IV (TV Jones), 4003 Walnut Rick
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China Copy bass
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Tele Bass kit build with '62 p pups & '90s jazz pup

How's the Eastwood Classic IV sound with the TV Jones pups?

 

[Axstar]

Some variety here:

Loving the Gretsch TK300!

 

[thabassmon]

Fretless 4 with flats E1-G2
Fretted 5 with rounds C1-E3
Fretted 6 with rounds/plain E1-F3

Maybe.

 

[J_Bass]

Other than the fretless neck (Mighty Mite), they're all Warmoth wood, the circuits are...unusual, they're all under 8 pounds. Chambered bodies, aluminum hardware (even the neck plate and knobs). They're definitely one of a kind things, and as I sign my initials on the (reshaped) headstocks, they're all "signature" basses. I figure since the headstocks don't look like Fenders, or say Fender on them, they're less likely to "walk".

Thanks, I like your basses.

 

[Slinger]

1 Short scale.
1 Jazz.
1 Fretless.
1 Fiver.

That's all she wrote.

 

[micguy]

Thanks, I like your basses.

We agree. I'm not sure we're supposed to do that, but it is what it is.

 

[beatlebass64]

All Birdsong basses...

4 string CBass (Birdsong with a DiMarzio P, pictured in my profile)
4 string fretless Fusion
5 string C5 that is actually for sale here:

For Sale - Birdsong C5 5 String Bass Late 2018 Spanish Cedar body - 8 lbs - MINT condition - FREE US48 Shipping

I'd love another 4 that is different from the passive P style, but I really don't need anything else as that bass fits my needs and desired sound perfectly.

 

[PluffMudQueen]

@B-Mac It's awesome! I rewired everything with new pots, switch and Jack which probably helped a good bit with the sound. Had to modify the neck pickup mount bracket due to a slight difference in size, though.

 

[B-Lo]

Decently diverse (I think)…

Squier Affinity Jazz (my 1st bass and currently my only 4 string)
Fender Elite Jazz V
Fender Am Pro Precision V (flats)
Spector Forte 5
Spector Forte 5 fretless
Stingray 5
Roscoe LG3005
Skjold CS5
Lakland 55-94 (flats)
G&L L2500 (sees the most daylight)