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My last purchase is a 50W handmade tube amp - sounds great, louder than you think, super versatile, it weights only 4.2 kg
It's the most expensive piece of gear I've bought so far, but it's worth it.
The last purchase I've just made but I haven't received yet is the Quilter Interbass
It's the cheapest amp I ever bought in my life, but it could be the best one.
My very last bass related purchase was getting a friend who does some fabrication work to alter a reproduction bridge cover for a Gibson Eb3 into the dimensions of a 61 Epiphone Newports finger rest.
I had to buy him lunch....
2024 Rickenbacker 4003SW. I always strayed away from Ric’s and honestly never really got a chance to play one. I just heard a bunch of bad stuff. This one had the single truss rod and a better bridge. The pickups aren’t noisy either. If they are all like this one I would recommend.
My latest musical stuff purchase? Pretty underwhelming, really... A spiral bound bass tab notebook, and a set of D'Addario "universal" strap locks. I thought I might like to have strap locks on my Birdsong Fusion bass; but, now I'm thinking "well... maybe not". The Perry strap that it has now, is a pretty tight fit on the strap pins it has already; I don't move around hardly at all when I play; and, I leave the strap on it all the time, anyway. But, I have them if I change my mind... That Birdsong was the bass that completed my Herd; I doubt there will be any more "NBD's" around here. So, anything I buy now, will miscellaneous doo dads; strings; and such like...