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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
#101
My #1 bass is the one I feel as irreplaceable. It's a mid-90s plain old black MIJ JBass, but it has the 20 years of Mojo, plus having lived through a defret and refret. The work on the neck has made the fingerboard about 2mm thinner, the radius has gone to 12", and the frets are vintage sized. These three factors combine for one of the most comfortable if not the most comfortable neck profile I've ever played. It just feels like... home. I guess I could try to replace it through warmoth for the vintage wire (AFAIK they don't do custom radius bass necks so it would be 10"), but... I don't know.
 
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#103
So, I don't have anything that has an incredible amount of sentimental value. Everything I have is replaceable with a normal amount of cash. Two basses I'd be sad to lose, but that are highly replaceable are my Silverburst Sterling Ray34 (because of the finish) and my burnt orange Yamaha BB415 (Discontinued + Finish).

I'd be sadder about all the other stuff in my house, honestly (photos / collectibles / etc)
 
#104
I do occasionally see the hot rod red CIJ Jaguar basses come up for sale so I could probably get that again. I rarely see CIJ Mustang basses for sale, and almost never see Squier Vista Series Musicmaster basses for sale (at a reasonable price, anyway). I have a faded Gibson SG with crescent moon inlays that is apparently rather rare. I also have a Martin D15 that was purchased with inheritance money after my mom passed away years ago. I would be pretty heartbroken if I lost it. Everything else could be easily replaced.
 
#106
I guess that if I have it, it is probably available somewhere, if I am willing to wait.
Marshall VBA400 - would be tough to replace
Sunn Beta Bass 1x15 - tough to replace
Yamaha BB1100s - only seen one other one here, would be tough to find another
Pedulla Rapture SS- only seen one other one here, but I bet Mike could make me a new one, if I sell my car!
Roscoe LG - Gard would be happy to build me a new one! Just have to sell my other car!!!
Moon Jazz Bass - I'd have to buy a car, then sell it to replace it!
Fishheadjoe
 
#107
My only two irreplacables: 1993 Ken Smith BT Custom in koa, and a 1986 G&L L-2000 with a Kahler tremolo, both of which have great sentimental value as they are connected in one way or another to someone who has passed, as well as being rare nowadays. I have some other pretty nice basses and gear, but nothing that couldn't be replaced with approximately the same thing. In a fire, those two are the only things I run back in for... well, and my kids.
 
#108
My Nordy VJ5 with PJ/JJ is replaceable, although I doubt the Brazilian Rosewood board would be an option. Couldn't replace the Nordy NJ5 or custom Nordy VJ5, as Carey doesn't do these specific models / options any more. Could get another Roscoe SKB 3005 Sig, Peavey G-V, and '69 P-Bass, although all would be difficult to find or replace.

Genz-Benz amp and cab would have to be replaced with Genzler stuff, but I wouldn't mind that!


dcr
 
#111
My gear is not rare (i have a relatively expensive Warwick and 2 other inexpensive basses ) but the financial burden for me to replace them would get me to my knees.

Technically i cannot give so much money now to buy a warwick again. Their price is really sky high nowadays. Also the sentimental cost of loosing my first bass would be very heavy. Financially it could be replaced very cheaply
 
#114
Lakland Skyline Jerry Scheff Signature 5 string and a Dude Pit Limited Edition II, as well as a "Lawsuit" Ibanez Challenger Jazz copy that I've had for 41 years...
Yeah, they'd be irreplaceable. And the insurance company would give me a few hundred bucks for them. And I'd be heartbroken.
 
#115
Last night at rehearsal, the fire alarm went off. Everybody (band, singers) left the building, with our stuff still on stage. The longer we waited outside for the fire department to come, the more I wondered if I shouldn't have taken my bass with me while vacating the building. Luckily, there was no real fire, so everything worked out OK in the end.

Everything I have is somewhat irreplaceable - they're one offs, everyone has custom circuitry. However, I built them, so....I could recreate something I would probably like just as well if I had to.
 
#116
I can replace all my gear. My main player is an E series MIJ Precision Lyte... but you can still pick them up on ebay. My amp is a MarkBassF1 and an Avatar 210 neo cab. I would probably replace both with difference pieces though they have booth served me will for over 8 years. I use a zoom mb60 in front ..again easy to replace.
 
#118
I don't have anything rare or vintage, so it could all be easily replaced with similar or identical models. For example, I use first gen G-K Neo112 cabs, which might not be easy to find, but the new version would be great. And replacing my Roland Cube 100 Bass with the newer Cube 120XL would be an upgrade.

Some of my instruments, however, are exceptional examples of their respective breeds, so I'm not sure replacements would measure up. My 2003 MIA Fender Jazz and 2004 Strat are incredibly resonant, punchy instruments that seem better than the average Fender -- even the 2008+ versions. The Strat cuts so much that it's almost TOO much in a band setting, and the Jazz is incredible. I play my G&L's more these days, but I'm just as attached to these Fenders, if not more.

I also have a 2001 MIA HH Hardtail Strat with factory-installed Seymour Duncans, which isn't too common. It's a fantastic guitar, but I think a G&L HH Legacy would cover nicely, and might be an upgrade.
 
#119
<--- Most of my guitars and basses are by U.S. Masters, which went out of business a few years ago. They do show up used occasionally, but are typically few and far between, as they never had huge production numbers. I would be particularly sad as several are very early production; one bass is in the first 100 made.

My Yamahas, a TRB5 and a TRB6P, are not too common, either.

I doubt I could replicate any of them, if lost, but they could be replaced by something else, just as carefully chosen.
 
#120
micguy said:
Last night at rehearsal, the fire alarm went off. Everybody (band, singers) left the building, with our stuff still on stage. The longer we waited outside for the fire department to come, the more I wondered if I shouldn't have taken my bass with me while vacating the building. Luckily, there was no real fire, so everything worked out OK in the end.
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This has happened at work a few times, gig back on my back down the fire exit stairs.

If a bass is too precious to leave in the car, I definitely won't leave it in a burning building.

Thankfully they were false alarms... except the time someones cigarette butt set the hedge on fire... :meh:
 

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