How stable is your bass collection?

[darwin-bass]

How much shifting does your collection go through. Is is growing or shrinking? Are you swapping stuff in and out?

Or do you have a stable stable of thoroughbreds?

Despite recently adding a fifth bass to my collection, I believe mine to be a stable stable. Wait, scratch that. I'm one step down from stable stable.

 

[Jogobass]

I have one main bass and one main amp. For most of my life.

 

[LadyLoveStingRay5]

I’ve no plans to get rid of anyone of my six basses. Will I add any others? Possibly .

 

[ahbass2500]

Mostly stable. I will occasionally sell things off if I am not playing them enough. I do not see anything I currently have going. I do have a few things on my shopping list, but nothing I expect to buy soon. I generally try to sell if I buy. Keeping myself between 10 and 15 basses (currently at 11). Last move was selling two US G&Ls to pick up a US Lakland Hollowbody. I am a huge G&L fan, but I love the Lakland (happy with the gear rotation on that one).

 

[Passinwind]

How much shifting does your collection go through. Is is growing or shrinking? Are you swapping stuff in and out?

Or do you have a stable stable of thoroughbreds?

Despite recently adding a fifth bass to my collection, I believe mine to be a stable stable.

Down to two again now (both fretless fours) which is pretty average for over the years. Not the slightest interest in getting another bass, but I could maybe see getting another guitar one day.

 

[Ric Vice]

Ready to thin the heard but the market is pretty weird right now. I’ll test the waters and see what shakes out.

 

[Wasnex]

Mostly stable. Still own my first bass guitar. Here's the BG collection: 1. modded Ric 4001, 2. Yamaha TRB6P. 3. Fender Precision Elite II, 4. Daion Powermark XB, 5. Washburn Bantam (headless), 6. Modulus Flea 5, 7. Modulus Genesis 5, 8. Tacoma Thunderchief.

I haven't bought a bass guitar for a very long time (over a decade). I did order a Hamer Cruise 5 with a 2-Tek bridge a few years back. It arrived with the strings slack and a broken truss rod, so back to GC it went. Haven't really look for bass guitars since.

Last bass I bought was a NS Design EU6 electric upright. I had been searching for a deal for several years.

I am currently interested in buying a carved upright at $6K or higher. This may seem like a lot of money, but it's pretty much entry level for a carved instrument. Not a lot of options within 200 miles or so, so I will need to do some road trips in order to try uprights.

 

[darwin-bass]

Oh, I didn't even think about amps. That could be another category. Or six-string treble basses (guitars). I suppose one could have a stable stable of basses but be swapping guitars like mad.

 

[ryco]

Stable stable. Have great basses for all occasions/ all my needs.
There are a couple more I wouldn't having, but at my age and the kind and number of gigs I do any more, kind of hard to justify the expenditure - not that I couldn't afford them.
Pretty happy with what I gots.

Love my old Sunn 200s and Concert.
Love my new GK Fusion 800/210 combo.

Would go for a wide grain MTD 535 unlined ebony fretless, roast maple neck;
and a fretted red Lakland 55-02 maple neck. but yah

 

[Father Gino]

With god as my witness, I’m never buying another bass ever. Really.

 

[jimmydean]

Every time I get down to one bass I end up buying one and that turns into a second and recently a third .........now I have four .

 

[mcrawfordmusic]

I was notorious for always changing my gear around, but after watching a video with Freddie Washington, who has been using the same few basses (mostly his P) for his whole career, I decided to make the change and reduce what I have, but also keep my gear consistent.

 

[Tom Gallo]

Extremely stable in terms of no basses being bought or sold. The last bass I bought was in January 2015 when I got my rick 4003s reissue (one of the two they had in the booth at winter NAMM that year). The only instrument I've sold in the last 20+ years was a rick 620 guitar which could no longer play due to arthritis. I've assembled I think two parts basses since 2015 simply because I like the process.

 

[Wasnex]

Oh, I didn't even think about amps. That could be another category.

I lost count as the number approached 60.

 

[CletusMarley]

Mostly pedal changes for me.

 

[Pings Bass]

Shrinking after a spate of buying. Currently 4 bass guitars; I was trying to sell a nice jazz but the market was soft, so I'm holding it for now.

 

[Pocket Dave]

Pretty stable. 4 basses - a P, J, fretless J and electric upright. 2 amps - an every-day driver and a backup. 3 cabs - a couple 210's and a 410 that hasn't seen the light of day in over a year.

 

[dmt]

A pretty stable stable here.

There has been some movement over the last year or so, but only outgoing. I have one more bass to sell (an MIA P), and sold two Jazzi back in summer of 2024. Other than those three (of which I bought all three very roughly 10 years ago, in, along with two long term keepers, a bit of a last bass-buying frenzy), I’ve had the same group of basses for around 11 years.

Among my stable stable, I’ve had my same MIM P, which is one of my two main basses, for over a quarter of a century now (yikes). The other main bass, an SG bass, I got about 10 years ago, and then I got a Mustang a few months before that that I’m keeping even though it doesn’t get played much these days. My two acoustic basses I’ve had for something in the 15 to 20 year timeframe, I’m not sure exactly how long on them.

(of the above, the sunburst P, which I’ve had for over 10 years, isn’t going to stay. The rest stay [and stay, and stay…])

 

[Petethebassman]

Mostly stable, but in the last five years I’ve bought two basses. The bass I’ve had the longest is a ESP Precision I bought 38 years ago.

 

[Smallmouth_Bass]

I have everything I could ever need. It doesn't stop me from looking though.