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Is your gear irreplaceable?

How irreplaceable is your gear?

  • I could replace it all easily

    Votes: 88 25.1%

  • I have a rare item or two, but the rest would be easily replaced

    Votes: 172 49.0%

  • Most of my gear would be difficult to replace

    Votes: 76 21.7%

  • I have carefully curated a collection of the rarest gear

    Votes: 15 4.3%
  • Total voters
    351
#21
Nev375 said:
These early 70's Rickenbackers with all their frets, pickups and bridge slanted at 11 degrees are pretty dang hard to come by.
It took me ages to even find a photo of one online like mine. I paid $270 for it in the late 90's. I don't think it would be so easy to buy now.
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That is crazy! A guitar that deliberately makes itself harder to play...
 
#23
I could.
But it would take a long time.
Too much money invested in upgrading the pickups,tuners,knobs and the bridge on the Wolf.

Tune basses are now sold out of Canada.
Import fees.
The Korean Tune fretless has recently had the fingerboard replaced with an unlined fingerboard.
I bought this used.
It was really cheap.$560.00
Now they are selling for $1350.00 on the 'bay
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#24
I have only one bass that might have a small whiff of vintage consideration on the used market, though S8 serial number, black and maple neck Fender P-Basses are still able to be found for a few hundred under 2 grand. I bought it when nobody wanted late 70's P-basses on the cheap, and it sounds and plays great, but it's always been a utility instrument for me, and I could find another good P-Bass in general to replace it. I have a 2002 U.S. Cirrus 5 as well, that I love, but they can still be had on the used market under or over a grand for decent clean ones. The rest of my stuff can be replaced easily to be honest. I really don't have any super-duper expensive, ultra rare, irreplaceable vintage gear, let alone luxury priced exotic and darn near erotic custom-boutique stuff.
 
#25
My two main players are customs that couldn't be rebuilt. My Rob Allen MB2 5 string with two mag pups isn't something Rob would build again, and my Celinder 5 string PJ, well Chris isn't building anymore either. In fact, I don't even know how to put a value on them if ins. was to pay me for them? .......
 
#27
I didn't vote. The way I see it basses are pretty unique, especially Fenders. One 1977 jazz can be drastically different from another. In that sense all of my instruments are irreplaceable.

Now if catastrophe were to strike, I would of course buy new equipment and I am sure I could find suitable basses and amps. They would just all be different from what I have now. Might even be better, who knows, but they would never be 1 for 1 replacements of what I have now.

I don't think I would even approach it that way. I wouldn't be out looking necessarily for a 77 jazz, maybe even not a Fender jazz, nor a Warwick Streamer Stage I, nor the Czech-made SSD I have (that might be somewhat rare to replace).

So since I would not expect a different SSD I found to sound the same anyway, I would instead just look for a suitable bass, be it Spector Euro, Rebob, G&L, Ibanez, whatever would feel good and sound good to me. Ditto for the jazz - maybe a Lakland Skyline, G&L, Fender, or even a Squier. I would be looking for working solutions, not identical replacements.

I would miss my 77 jazz, it's been with me from the beginning, since 1980. But it is just a thing, and playing is more important than what you play on.
 
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Nev375 said:
Don't be so sure about that. It was designed to be easier to play.
Every guitarist who I have let play it loves it.
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Now that I think about it, the way a guitarrist has to curve their hand to chord kind of reaches back toward themselves. What you're saying does make alot of sense.

For a bass player like me it would be terrible.
 
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#30
Both of my basses are "custom" made, but I could have Roscoe build them again with the same specs. Of course every piece of wood is different, etc., etc., but yeah, I guess I could replace them. It just wouldn't be the same.

My amp is no big deal. Update to a new Genzler from my Genz Benz.
 
#31
I intentionally sold my rarer gear for things that I still liked but could replace more easily. The problem is, I'm actually more connected with my Fender than I am to any other bass I've owned.

...there are others like it, but this one is mine.
 
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#34
Should be multiple choice. I have a carefully curated selection of very rare gear, and a much larger pile of completely replaceable gear. Chosen for use as appropriate for the occasion.
 
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#40
two fingers said:
I could replace all but this one. Everything else could be replaced.... or at least close enough for my liking.

NBD - Welcome home old friend....
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I remember that thread... cool story. :cool:

I have a couple that would be next to impossible to replace, at least not with an identical item. A few would be expensive to replace, but it could be done. Finally, some gear would be fairly easy to replace... just a few minutes in the TalkBass Classifieds. (that's where I got a bunch of it in the first place) :facepalm:
 

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