Really really nice basses.

[gottawalk]

A bass can be a "really really nice bass" WITHOUT being either high-end or custom.

Here's my 1963 Precision, a really really nice bass:

Beautiful! I love the "carmel" color!

 

[gottawalk]

I aquired this lastnight

And it is a.....??? I can't place it.

 

[Joe Turski]

Here's my first custom Stambaugh. I have another on the way.

 

[fraublugher]

 

[kevin_lindsay]

My Sei Singlecut 5 fretted

And here's the fretless 5 currently mid-production:

 

[Baryonyx]

and coming later this year....a neckthrough fretless Conklin 6 with a phenolic fingerboard.

I can't wait to see this!

 

[Eric Perry]

 

[Pilgrim]

I have a feeling it was once Candy Apple Red. True?

Was that once shoreline gold?

Actually, it was originally Olympic White, but when I got it in 1967 the paint was all chipped up, which is something I disliked then and still dislike - I'm not a fan of relics. So in 1972 I had it painted Ford Metallic Gold by a local body shop. It's not that far off Fender's Shoreline gold, but looks a bit darker to my eye.

Since Leo Fender painted passes with auto colors, this is at least in the spirit of the original. In 1972, it was just an old bass with chipped paint.
See: http://www.provide.net/~cfh/fenderc.html

Of course, now that I know how the value was affected, I kinda wish I hadn't painted it...but only from a resale value point of view. If I played it and it was the original color but covered with paint chips, it would bother me.

An interesting side note - I'll bet there are at least as many people out there who would like to have a '63 P as there are who would like to have a boutique bass.

 

[Munjibunga]

Here's two of my faves: Sadowsky 25th Anniversary Modern 5 and a Jerzy Drozd Obsession Excellency 5.

 

[Baryonyx]

The top on Sadowsky is stunning!

 

[Munjibunga]

A couple more. Roscoe LG 3005 and MTD 535-24.

 

[Munjibunga]

OK, just two more. My only painted basses, A Sadowsky Modern 5-24 in olympic white and, of course, the US Lakland Joe Osborn 5 in Cadillac Pink.

 

[Munjibunga]

Oh, all right, just two more and that's it. A Yamaha TRB5P-II and a Lakland 55-94 Deluxe.

 

[Munjibunga]

Well, if you insist, just two more, both fretless. Yet another 55-94 Deluxe, and a Pedulla Thuderbolt 5.

 

[Munjibunga]

The top on Sadowsky is stunning!

Thanks. It took some doing to get that top. Kevin sent me photos of all the tops that came in until that one showed up and it was a done deal.

 

[lamarjones]

My fauxdera (R bass singlecut)

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I have things in the works right now, but actually play a p bass mostly, so I went and checked some of my sold beauties for the top 3.

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[matthewfoote]

Go on then, if you insist

My Sei Flamboyant 7 string fretted and fretlass

Regards

Matthew

 

[adrian garcia]

my beloved Nordy VJ5:
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This one is for life. My go to bass.

and newly appearing on the Vegas Strip:

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F Bass bn6 courtesy of AJ Brown. I have to take new pics, the color is deeper and brighter than the pics. Great bass.

 

[dooft11]

You may want to edit your thread title to also include the "high end botique" part- lots of guys here are almost desperate to show pics of thier basses in any thread that they can, so you may get a thread with a hundred pictures of off-the-shelf, non-botique stuff if you don't

Bryan, i cant agree more on this. but anyway you will see someone pop up and squeeze in so they 'it do great for me so it is great' bass. so let me show my first china clone 'washdurn' which do very good for me

 

[dooft11]

OH Adrian
you got that FBN6...well.. will it mean, i can start bug the current owner of your ebony F? ...hee..heee.heee