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So maybe I have too many…
- Thread starter jaysbassspace
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You don't have too many until you can't afford to keep fresh sounding strings on them.
...or your wife starts looking a bit murdery when holding the kitchen knives.
...or your wife starts looking a bit murdery when holding the kitchen knives.
I usually just have 1 main player...sometimes for a decade or more sometimes for a month... but I own about 15
Somewhat off-topic: Seeing stacks of cases is so... depressing to me. If you can't display them on the wall, then yeah, you have too many. IMOH of course. 
I'm moving and just packed them. Usually they are on a rack.Somewhat off-topic: Seeing stacks of cases is so... depressing to me. If you can't display them on the wall, then yeah, you have too many. IMOH of course.
So once upon a time I responded to a Craigslist ad about 40 miles from our house. My lady was looking for an acoustic guitar (she has an amazing voice, both parents sang and were multi instrumentalists from guitar to sax to accordion ect). We get there and we have to walk behind a garage and up some outside stairs (mind you it was January and ice everywhere). He unlocks the door and wall to wall are hard acoustic cases.... he says wait a minute I'll be right back with the acoustic we were interested in. 10 minutes later he emerges with not only the one we were looking into but also its matching counter part which is a smaller body. Serial numbers within 4 of eachother and I swear the Mahogany is from the same boards with the way they match up. Needless to say we bought both. After talking for awhile he takes us to the other rooms which are even more packed with acoustic guitars.
THIS IS WHERE IT GETS FUNNY....
He says, "I'm a drummer."
He gave us a great deal on the set and I still have his number.
Funny to think people rent apartments for their gear.
What makes it even funnier... we were showing my lady's cousin the guitars and start in on the story and he interjects with "does he live in Windsor?"
He too had responded to another CL ad of his a day later.
Small world.
THIS IS WHERE IT GETS FUNNY....
He says, "I'm a drummer."
He gave us a great deal on the set and I still have his number.
Funny to think people rent apartments for their gear.
What makes it even funnier... we were showing my lady's cousin the guitars and start in on the story and he interjects with "does he live in Windsor?"
He too had responded to another CL ad of his a day later.
Small world.
That looks about right to me. Every time I try to whittle the number down, something happens and it is back up again! Elves maybe!
Get rid of those and you will have more room for more basses!
My meager collection and I have a Custom Shop G&L L2500 750 series 19mm Sunburst finish , rear rout, Empress body , quarter sawn maple neck , maple fingerboard bass on order.
GOOD EYE!
I always wondered why there are locks on bass cases. If someone is going to steal it, I expect them to take the whole case.
Yeah, guitars don't count.18 basses and 5 guitars here. You're nobody, man.
I feel underwhelmed by the fact that there's only a picture of the cases and not one bass is actually shown...
18 basses and 5 guitars here. You're nobody, man.
And you're somebody? What a kind and friendly remark, I guess I forgot the measure of a person was contingent on the number of basses they had. And you having guitars subtracts from your bass count, so your at net 13, which is less than OP. Go figure
I didn't take the comment that way at all and that he was taking the p*ss.
