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How many basses do you own? (Currently) Part 2

How many basses do you currently own?

  • 1

    Votes: 937 9.5%

  • 2

    Votes: 1,555 15.7%

  • 3

    Votes: 1,643 16.6%

  • 4

    Votes: 1,337 13.5%

  • 5 to 9

    Votes: 2,987 30.2%

  • 10 to 20

    Votes: 1,066 10.8%

  • 21 +

    Votes: 282 2.8%

  • Too many to count

    Votes: 90 0.9%
  • Total voters
    9,896
#2,142
I've acquired this Hofner 500/1, & an Am. Std Jazz.

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#2,143
I currently own five basses.
SX jazz copy,my first bass, keeper of Eb tuning,
Fender P bass mim, main axe tuned standard with hipshot Dtuner,
Fender P bass mim, keeper of C standard tuning,
Gibson EB2014, keeper of grunt and nasal tones,
Fender Cabronita P bass, keeper of flatwounds.

I am currently very happy but I think I will add a pair more. I'd love a short scale at least and a black Thunderbird.
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#2,147
Two.

Peavey Millennium 5 (the Indonesian one, unfortunately) and a craptastic no-name p-bass knockoff I got for 30 bucks on eBay, both played with Ernie Ball strings and Tortex .88 sharp picks. The p-bass doesn't sound as bad as you'd expect, but it's built like a 30 dollar bass.

I've also got a Washburn guitar that sees occasional action but I'm not as good on that instrument...
 
#2,150
During the last year I have downgrading from 4 to 1, by selling or swaping 3 basses that I didn´t use that much: my first bass, a Harley Benton Jazz copy that I bought 7 years ago. It sounded Ok, but the neck dive was horrible due to a super light body made of conglomerate. The quality of the components was bad also, the E key bended after a fall, and one day the strap button fell off while I was playing it. Luckily I was fast enough to avoided hitting the ground. So, finally I put it on the market and sold it for 50 €.
Also gone is my second bass. Ibanez ATK, bought 5 years ago. This one had nice quality, and sounded good. But was too damn heavy and the neck was like a baseball bat, too thick for my hands. So it was gone as well. I swap it for a Telecaster guitar (I though it would be easier to sell than the bass), that later I swap for a Ibanez semihollow guitar that looked nicer than the tele, which finally was sold for the price I was asking for the bass in the first place.
And the third bass guitar that was gone was a semihollow Ibanez ABF, bought 3 years ago. I play in a loudy rock band, so in this context I used scarcily when we had some acoustic thing going on... I put it on the market and received a swap offer for a bass amp just 2 weeks before of a gig, at a time when I had no gigging amp. So it was convenient at that time. It was gone.

OK, now what I have left is a Epiphone Thunderbird Classic Pro which I really like. I bough it almost 3 years ago, after some years of dreaming with having a Thunderbird... Nikki Sixx, Frankie Poulain and 70s Tom Hamilton influenced, you know... it is great for me, much lighter and confortable to play than the Ibanez ...and less neck dive than the Harley Benton hahaha
It just perfect for me. However, I feel that I need another bass, as a replacement for gigs, in case something goes wrong... also it would be good to have them splitted, one for rehearsing (half step down tuning), the other one for home use (keep it at standerd tuning for study and practice), and not havig to carry my bass up and down all the time.
So, hopefully, I will need to visit this thread again to change my vote in the near future. It´s about time to go for another one. I am still searching and trying to decide. This time it needs to be a real winner.
 
#2,155
My basses in order of acquisition:
- 1981 Ibanez Musician Series MC924
- 1982 Kramer 8-string
- 2003 Cort Curbow 5-string fretless
- 2004 Cort Curbow 5-string
- 2004 Michael Kelly Dragonfly 5-String fretless acoustic-electric
- 2010 Schecter Stiletto Studio 6 w/ upgraded EMG preamp -- my main bass these days
All are 34" scale except for the Schecter which is 35" scale.
 
#2,160
Ladies & Gentlemen, I present to you...The Magnificent 7!!!!!!!

Short Scale Fretted (2 hollow bodies, one solid... two single coil, one humbucker):
~Hofner Contemporary Beatle 500/1 Bass (Sunburst)
~Danelectro Longhorn (Copperburst)
~Fender (Squire) Jaguar (Totally gutted- new pickups, tuners, bridge, headstock sanded to natural with new Fender Jaguar Bass waterslide) (Mystic Metallic Red)

Medium Scale Fretted (two solid bodies... one single coil, one combo single coil & humbucker):
~Fender American Standard Jaguar (Modified With Medium Scale Custom Neck) (Mystic Metallic Red)
~Rickenbacker 4001 (Natural/Mapleglo & sanded down from original Jetglo with binding of & edges all rounded out & smoothed over.. shooting for 70's McCartney)

Medium Scale Fretless (two solid bodies... one single coil, one combo single coil & humbucker):
~Fender '62 Jazz Bass (Japan) (Sunburst)
~Fender (Squire) '62 Precision Bass (Japan E Series Early 80's, same exact as Standard Fender, getting new Fender Precision Bass waterslide) (Black)
 

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