Who’s Got Twins?

[macmanlou]

The fretless Shortbass in this video is the very one Scott Beckwith made for me. A year later he made me a fretted one, also walnut with a rosewood fretboard.

 

[2saddleslab]

Well I never was a rule follower.

 

[JoshS]

More fraternal Rics. Also not following rules.

They actually have pretty different character from each other.


Edit: And since you're cool with 4/5 (which are much farther apart), these are sort of in the same 4003 family...

 

[gcbake]

 

[Riff Ranger]

Like Jeff Scott, fraternal, but not identical:

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This is pretty close to what I originally had in mind nice pair!

 

[MMiller28]

I'm strictly anti-twin, though I'm not a performer. The more different they are, the easier it is to get my wife to say yes.

 

[7dollarbologna]

Two Fullerton reissues - the one on the left is an ‘82 epoxy fretless (by HG Thor) and the one on the right is an ‘84 fretted (I’ve owned since I was 16 yrs old)

 

[KaraQ]

These all fit the bill as laid out in the original post and clearly must have some stories behind them; I hope you’ll share the stories as well!

Well, I could add to the story part a bit. It's not full of adventure & international intrigue though, unfortunately

The second tobacco burst 'bird (in the pic, the one that has regular dot fretboard inlays), that I got sorta by accident, is linked to the white Classic Pro.

I was bidding on the CP (which was mostly just the shell, with pickups and some hardware (all disassembled), the rest was gone), and had bid the max I was willing to pay.
I thought I might get outbid, so I bid on the '07 tobacco burst, but less than what I thought it should be worth, so I would get at least one, hopefully
Once I won on the CP, I kept thinking, with such a low bid on the other, I would get outbid...

Clearly, this plan somewhat backfired, as I ended up with both...

The Vintage Pro was similar, I put in a low-ish bid, which ended up winning

 

[BS666]

I've got myself some triplets!

 

[Bobb Nagel]

I had an ATK305, honey colored, in the mid ‘90’s. What a wonderful balanced instrument they are! I have two of the Squier VM Precision 5’s but one is burst like yours and the other is Oly White, so no pic here. Fun thread. Thanks.

 

[Pings Bass]

Not me, I like variety! But proper respect to those of you who know what you like and stick with it.

 

[Drucifer]

 

[johnk_10]

i have a couple:

 

[Spirit of Ox]

My Geddys. Not identical twins but fraternal.

 

[Ric5]

4 of a kind

 

[Ric5]

walnut twins

 

[Ricky Rioli]

May I gently raise an amused eyebrow at the idea that different colours are less twinlike than a different number of strings?

 

[Ric5]

4 frankensteined SG basses

 

[Ric5]

white and tort

 

[Ric5]

striped