If, for some strange reason, you could only have two basses...

[GretschWretch]

Time to find a wash tub, a tea chest and a couple of old broom handles...

Ah yes, the front-ported tea chest bass. And what kind of a skiffle band lets its washboardist play seated?

 

[GretschWretch]

Now that the usual suspects have all been eliminated, I would have to say some combination of Daion, Magnatone, and Multivox Marvel.

 

[MYLOWFREQ]

Fernandes Atlas 4X.

 

[Wicked G]

I normally don't respond to these threads since they make no sense to me. But since you made this one a little difficult for most, I'll play.

ESP/LTD F-414 FM
BC Rich NT Warlock

 

[Ric Vice]

...and they couldn't be Fender or Fender clones, couldn't be Musicman or G&L, couldn't be Gibson, Rickenbacker, Ibanez, Yamaha, Warwick, Gretsch, Guild, Lakland or any USA-made or Japanese-made basses, couldn't be botique basses, Warmoth or similar parts basses, or couldn't even be Eastwood, what two basses would you own?

I'd have a fretted and fretless Torzal 5string

 

[funkinbottom]

I'm in the build my own camp.

 

[mikeoso]

Speaking to the OP's criteria, there's a pretty good sounding & playing imported ABG on the wall at the local store, right now.

Tell more plz

 

[mikeoso]

Time to find a wash tub, a tea chest and a couple of old broom handles...

...and some really ugly socks

 

[Doctor Intrepid]

I guess they would be the basses I do own.

 

[InhumanResource]

...and they couldn't be Fender or Fender clones, couldn't be Musicman or G&L, couldn't be Gibson, Rickenbacker, Ibanez, Yamaha, Warwick, Gretsch, Guild, Lakland or any USA-made or Japanese-made basses, couldn't be botique basses, Warmoth or similar parts basses, or couldn't even be Eastwood, what two basses would you own?

Wow. I guess a Dean made in the Czech Spector factory since that's the only non-US non-Japan production bass that I can think of outside of the manufacturers you banned. The second bass would be my plywood upright.

 

[rtslinger]

Harley Benton
HLK

 

[patzilla83]

Can one of the basses be good for metal?

 

[AceOfBassFace]

 

[Plectrum72]

Epiphone Thunderbird Classic IV Pro
Rogue VB100

I happen to own and like both.

 

[S-Bigbottom]

If I had a dollar for every If thread...

 

[39-Bassist]

2 Carvin basses...1 LB70 and other one LB70F (fretless) Or possibly the Icon series

No problem here.

 

[Artman]

Happy 420

 

[lordradish]

...and they couldn't be Fender or Fender clones, couldn't be Musicman or G&L, couldn't be Gibson, Rickenbacker, Ibanez, Yamaha, Warwick, Gretsch, Guild, Lakland or any USA-made or Japanese-made basses, couldn't be botique basses, Warmoth or similar parts basses, or couldn't even be Eastwood, what two basses would you own?

Well, based on those criteria, I'd have several 2x4's with either rubber bands or flatwounds.

 

[Grinderman]

The two I built.

 

[P. Aaron]

For looks alone, I like Spector basses. For my inner snobbish-prickster, a Fodera.