I would say the Davison Demo Bass due to the horrible build quality, nonadjustable truss rod, and sharp fret ends. These sell for $199.99, which I say is a total rip-off considering that I got a $70 bass that has the quality of a $600 bass.
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What do you think is the worst bass ever?
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The first bass I borrowed, a Lyon P(OS). Made late on a Friday when there was a shortage of wire solder and flux in the factory. Wasn't a spare centimeter of slack in the entire wiring harness, and the tiny dabs of solder were barely to scale with the dime sized pots.
It did teach me to solder, as literally every time I went to play it I had to pop the hood to make some repair. Using my dad's ginormous pistol grip soldering iron (no temp control, lights dimmed when it was plugged in and the chisel tip was almost as wide as the pots), thick rosin core flux solder I managed to keep it playing.
Had to splice in wire, and stripped some Romex leftover from when we partially finished half the basement (paneling and a drop ceiling with fluorescent lights). Resistance was too high with that stuff (made for house current, not surprisingly) so I pulled it out (except the ground wire, ground is ground) and put in some wire from when they replaced the phone systems at my dad's office.
I'd unscrewed the PG so many times the screw holes stripped out of the very soft wood, and I'd used toothpicks and glue in every hole, some more than once.
Must have cooked a pot, because the output dropped to nothing. Guy who owned it and I carried it in to the shop he'd bought it from a couple months before. I had a Ziploc bag with the PG and electronics in it, he was carrying the bass and strings in his other hand.
Traded it in on a Yamaha Motion B, a much better instrument. Gigged with that for a couple years and never had to do any work on it other than change the strings.
Maybe 10 years ago, but they've really upped their game. Vintage Modifieds are some of the best stuff out there.
Even my lowly Affinity precision is pretty decent. Although I replaced the pups with an SD QP, MIA red tortoise PG (had to fill and drill some holes), added a RW thumb rest, replaced the bridge plate with one that the chrome wasn't flaking, CTS pots, Switchcraft jack and La Bella tapewound strings.
It did teach me to solder, as literally every time I went to play it I had to pop the hood to make some repair. Using my dad's ginormous pistol grip soldering iron (no temp control, lights dimmed when it was plugged in and the chisel tip was almost as wide as the pots), thick rosin core flux solder I managed to keep it playing.
Had to splice in wire, and stripped some Romex leftover from when we partially finished half the basement (paneling and a drop ceiling with fluorescent lights). Resistance was too high with that stuff (made for house current, not surprisingly) so I pulled it out (except the ground wire, ground is ground) and put in some wire from when they replaced the phone systems at my dad's office.
I'd unscrewed the PG so many times the screw holes stripped out of the very soft wood, and I'd used toothpicks and glue in every hole, some more than once.
Must have cooked a pot, because the output dropped to nothing. Guy who owned it and I carried it in to the shop he'd bought it from a couple months before. I had a Ziploc bag with the PG and electronics in it, he was carrying the bass and strings in his other hand.
Traded it in on a Yamaha Motion B, a much better instrument. Gigged with that for a couple years and never had to do any work on it other than change the strings.
Maybe 10 years ago, but they've really upped their game. Vintage Modifieds are some of the best stuff out there.
Even my lowly Affinity precision is pretty decent. Although I replaced the pups with an SD QP, MIA red tortoise PG (had to fill and drill some holes), added a RW thumb rest, replaced the bridge plate with one that the chrome wasn't flaking, CTS pots, Switchcraft jack and La Bella tapewound strings.
The one(s) made that no one ever made music with. Even a crap bass used for making music is a *good* bass
"the worst bass ever," for me, is usually the one* the other bassist asks me to pick up and play just to see what i think of his/her instrument! 
* usually a fender!
* usually a fender!
A used Egmond I saw in a shop many years ago. Looked way cool, like you wanted it to have some amazing mystical mojo, but was totally unplayable. It seemed like something might have been missing from it (maybe an essential bridge piece?), but no one had any info on it and so couldn't be sure.
Totally the worst basses ever....and reasons vary for everyone.
My reason is that before you know it, it is possible to have three or more in your possession....
Doesn't this edge kinda-sorta close to an "Ugly Bass" thread in spirit, if not literally? 
What if we would ask bass-guitars the same question?
Who was the absolute worst player?
Who was the absolute worst player?
Nothing good can come of this thread...................
Maybe, but it's funny reading posts by people disparaging entire companies, and wrongly so, based on whatever bad experience they might've had when they were suckered into buying something from a pawn shop, a good friend, or whatever.Doesn't this edge kinda-sorta close to an "Ugly Bass" thread in spirit, if not literally?
It's not a brand, but this actual bass. A Conrad from the 70's in Tallahassee. They did Mark it down from$389 to $299. It isn't worth $75. The feel is so hard to describe other than bad in every way.
The worst production bass made in the last 10 years is still probably light years better than the garbage that the AARP card carrying TB members had to put up with back in the day. That said, the answer will always be a Dean Metalman.
But it's "vintage"!
Pffff
When I worked at GC they made me take in some complete crap because it was old and they thought they could turn a profit
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