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Post Your Well-Rounded Stable of Basses?

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Obligatory couch pic.
 
here's some of mine that i think make a well rounded group of basses:

l-r top row: '73 p bass, orig '62 P bass, '68 tele bass, '72 jazz bass, '55 P bass, '68 Hofner beatle bass, '99 Hofner club bass
l-r bottom row: '98 Ricky v63, '04 MM stingray, '68 Gibson EB3, '66 Gibson EB2D, '68 Gretsch 6073, '85 Alembic Distillate, '64 St. George

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Congratulations, John! :) I never thought that I would see my dreams in real life, let alone the TB. :hyper: Now I can come here and drool for your basses ;)
 
I'm in the group that doesn't have a pic of them all together (would rather be playing than taking pics of basses) but here's a list. I have NO gas whatsoever.

'81 Rickenbacker 4001
Mike Rowan Revelator (Active Bartolini J pups)
Fender American Jazz
Fender Hwy 1 Precision
Fender Geddy Lee
Alembic Brown Bass
Carl Thompson 4 string
Squier Fretless

Covers everything.
 
I think that my family is pretty well-rounded

04 Fender MIM Jazz V Upgraded with SD Basslines, An Audere JZ3, and a Badass V Bridge

07 Musicman Sterling

92 MIM Fender Jazz upgraded with 70's Vintage Pickups and control plate, Badass II Bridge, and Schaller Tuners

Brice HXP-406 6 String

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The family pic does not include the Badass V bridge on The Fender Jazz, Here is a pic of that

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my basses are

from the first I owned to the last:

fender jazz bass marcus miller 4 with sadowsky onboard preamp

fender precision bass classic 50

fender jazz bass fretless sig pastorius

fodera monarch wooten classic 4

fodera imperial 5

fender jazz bass 77
 
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'95 Charvel CHS-4 w/ Hipshot ultralites and DiMarzio Model PJ pups
Fender parts P-Bass - MIM body, AllParts Jazz neck, TI Jazz Flats
'99 Warrior Studio Plus 5 - Walnut body, Macassar Ebony top, Wenge/purpleheart neck, purpleheart board.
'01 Yamaha BB1500A
'02 Ernie Ball Musicman Stingray 5