If someone handed you $3000 for a new bass

[fuzzy beard]

I would take the 3 grand and call Grove guitars and get a custom crate top mustang bass!

 

[Green1]

Nordstrand

 

[pbass6811]

It'd be my down payment on a custom Skjold Offset '92......are you offering?

 

[bobbybass85]

10 Squier's.... actually I'd be sending Nino Valenti an email.

 

[slapbass06]

Used ken smith mtd usa elrick or brand new sadowsky 24m roscoe warrior

 

[SalmonCubes]

An American Spector, probably. Either that, or a custom Carvin everything I could possibly want, and install a Glockenklang pre-amp and a top of the line set of Barts or SD Pups.

 

[SoVeryTired]

Dingwall or a full-custom ACG.

 

[JoeWPgh]

Sadowsky NYC

 

[ronin614]

Status SII headles, neck-through lefty.
Or I'd give Mike Tobias a call.
Can I just buy 3 or 4 less expensive basses? I really like the look and sound of the pink Gamma that I saw on YouTube and I can always use another Hohner Jack custom. I could probably pick up both of them and still return $2000 for another bassist to use.

 

[u84six]

I'd hand the entire $3k to my guitar player friend who has a 1963 all original P-bass that he rarely plays. It plays like it should. I'm the only one who has changed the strings and cleaned it in the past 20 years.

Wow, that's a shame. What a waste of a great instrument!

 

[chunkstyle]

f-BASS

Best profile pic EVER!!

 

[u84six]

Agreed.

Plenty of new and pre-owned gems out there in the sub-$1K range. Personally, I’d go for a new MIM Jazz with an HSC — and I’d still have something left with which to take the S.O. out for a nice dinner afterwards.

You didn't read my question clearly. Whatever you don't spend (on a bass), you must return. So some people were pretty wise about it by saying they'd purchase a specific bass that's in the 4k-5k range by adding a bit of their own money. Others have said they'd look for 3 used basses for roughly 1k a piece. Not a bad idea.

 

[ProgRocker]

On one bass? Probably a Pedulla or a seriously tricked out Carvin 5 or 6 string. I've always loved both.

 

[Jazzdogg]

$3,000 would get me close to a new Rob Allen!

 

[Brad Johnson]

There's a like new Brubaker KXB-6 custom on eBay with four preamp modules starting at $3800. I'd add to the $3k and snatch it up.

 

[BassSurfer]

A Bucket O' Fried Chicken

 

[pacojas]

i want a Fender CS 59P Relic in trans-white so bad!!!

 

[skulletwhip]

Vintage Gibson Ripper

 

[Solarmist]

Custom LeCompte STSS or Garz Cobra 5ers. I sooooo love the look of them!!!

 

[dcalde78]

One of the new Squier Affinity J basses in Lake Placid Blue. Then trick it out with either Seymour Duncan Lightnin' Rods or Dimarzio Area Js, Hipshot clover tuners with an Xtender, a Gotoh 201B-4 and P bass knobs, all in chrome.