What did you do with your first bass?

[Matthew_84]

Hey,

I'm interested in hearing what some of you did with your first bass, and why. I'm stumped with what to do with mine, and am looking for some ingenious idea that I haven't thought of yet.

My first bass is a Stagg, and I haven't touched it since I got a Fender. Everything on it needs to be upgraded (except for the body) for me to want to play it, and I just think it would be more worthwhile to get a decent Squire or something. I could sell it and put the money towards something else, but I'd only get so much (maybe $100) and do feel like keeping it, but really for no reason at all other than I feel like I may regret it.

Any input would be appreciated. Thanks,

 

[5string5fingers]

I just made it into a fretless project a few days ago. Glad I did for sure.

 

[tdizzle]

I let someone borrow it. I never saw it again.

 

[Matthew_84]

I was thinking of that, but I'm not the best sander. I've kind of priced it out and would likely spend about $150 on the materials to do it right (strings included), and if I didn't do a good job then it was worthless. Also, the neck on the bass moves all of the time, every couple of weeks I have to adjust the truss rod. I had it sitting for a month or so and picked it up and every single fret buzzed. So that makes me a little worried.

 

[srxplayer]

The first bass I bought was an Ibanez SRX (hence my name) I later had come to realize after playing for a while the tone and looks were not for me. I ended up giving it to my daughter. She was getting into Metal so I figured it was the better suited to her style of music. She still has it.

 

[singlemalt]

Still got it, now fretless and heavily modded. 76 Kramer bought slightly used for $150 in 1979.

Sadly, it's mostly sitting neglected in the original hardcase these days. Too heavy, not time for fretless, ect. ect. I should probably sell it.

 

[rabid_fish]

sold it... don't miss it

 

[Tommygunn]

Kept it, let it sit for a while. Gave it a half decent setup, threw some fender flats on it and I keep it at my mom's place so I'm not lugging basses back and forth. I love it to death.

 

[godofthunder59]

I still have my first bass 30 plus years later!

 

[bass_lord_mutha]

Sold it to upgrade to a better bass. In restrospect, I should've just upgraded the electronics, because the bass itself was great.

 

[Hot Rats]

Drove nails into it. Stabbed it with knives and hacked it apart with screwdrivers and axes. Shot it a couple of times.

 

[mdogs]

Took the finish off the body, stained it red and left it sit in my parents garage for years until I am pretty sure that my dad threw it away. Oh well, it sucked anyway!!

 

[bolophonic]

I ran a horrible route up the back of the neck and ran a wire through and made it into a Mako Bass lamp, which was so silly looking that I left it behind in some dump I probably lived in in college.

 

[winndaddy]

Drove nails into it. Stabbed it with knives and hacked it apart with screwdrivers and axes. Shot it a couple of times.

Me too, except I finished mine off with a shotgun! It was a starter Ibanez of some kind.

 

[delta7fred]

I sold mine, I made it in woodwork class at school in the 60s, It was a dog and a half but I wish I still had it.

 

[Ric5]

I smashed it on stage. ala Pete Townsend.

 

[GG-Thunderbird]

I kept mine. Gutted the original electronics, added new pickups, bart pre-amp, changed the bridge. Sold my Epi Thunderbird, which was my main player before I modded my jazz, so I could fund the project. Now it's my go to bass.

 

[Cryo]

Traded it in with cash for an upgrade.
My old bass had pickups that you could switch between passive and active. Now I have one that is active and the other passive. Each are easily worth twice as much as my old bass.
Sometimes i do wish i kept the old one, but i was running out of space.

Play that groove string!

 

[davegt666]

I traded my first bass, a Dean Edge 09, for a Red Epiphone Accu Bass Jr. I still got the Accu Bass.

 

[ButtUglyJeff]

It fell apart in my hands. But at least it died doing what it loved...

I drank quite a bit after...