Your basses, past and present, highest to lowest quality.

[Loring]

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Will have to get some better pics...

 

[GIBrat51]

Highest quality to lowest? That's an easy one;
'95 Alembic Epic
to
$139 Chinese Starfire violin bass (the one on the right)

 

[Rip Van Dan]

I had a Fender custom shop Jazz bass but I sold it cause it wasn't a P. That's why the guy sold it to me.

 

[Slapthatplank]

Will have to get some better pics...

Thanks for posting those, they look great! I have a Harley-Benton I'd trade you straight up for any of them . Just noticed you have a Kahler on one, mine did too.

 

[Paulabass]

100 basses- So just top and bottom.
Top-Any of the three Alembics I have owned.
Bottom- 1973 Beatle bass. Made out of crap, by drug addled lab monkeys.

 

[FC Bass]

100 basses- So just top and bottom.
Top-Any of the three Alembics I have owned.
Bottom- 1973 Beatle bass. Made out of crap, by drug addled lab monkeys.

You are 100% sure the Alembics are drug free?

 

[zontar]

Here are all mine from highest to lowest (Right to left)
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On the right Ibanez SR500F
better than the one on the left -Granada EB3 copy

 

[BassNugget]

Worst to first.

Ibanez GSR 200. First bass. Got it in 1999, sold it probably in 2003.
Fender MIM P Bass. Got this during my Steve Harris phase, probably 2001. Sold in 2004.
Fender MIM P Bass. Wife's bass that had flats on it, 2006 or so until 2018. Never played it much and gave it away to a student.
Fender MIM Fretless Jazz with all sorts of mods, 2004 to present. This has been my mostly one and only for 15 years. Bought it on a whim on my 17th birthday and quit playing everything else. I love this neck so much. It may get some further work in the future. It's too "mine" to ever get rid of it, and the quirks are my quirks at this point. It may get a set of Darkstars some day, or maybe I'll go the complete opposite direction and drop a preamp in it.
Conklin GT7, 2002-2006. Great instrument that I got after getting the extended range bug from John Turner. Sold it because I never played it after I got the fretless. Great bass. Loved the feel of the wenge and purpleheart neck.

I've got a 2017 Bacchus Woodline 5 string Jazz coming next week, and I anticipate that being the best build quality I've ever had, but time will tell.

Yep. The Woodline will eclipse those easily. You will love it!

 

[BassNugget]

100 basses- So just top and bottom.
Top-Any of the three Alembics I have owned.
Bottom- 1973 Beatle bass. Made out of crap, by drug addled lab monkeys.

ROFLOL! LMAO!

 

[TrevorG]

U.S Spector NS5XL(1999 - still have it)
Alembic Stanley Clarke Signature (1992 -stolen)
Fender Ultra Precision(2019 - still have it)
Overwater Explorer Fretless(1985 - still have it)
Warwick Streamer (1990 - sold)
Ibanez Musician Fretless (1983 - sold)
Fender Jazz(1992 - sold)
Washburn Fretless Acoustic AC5(2002 - still have it)
Aria Pro II (1975 - sold)

 

[David Morr15]

I'm a lefty who's almost fully recovered from carpel (sell my basses quickly) tunnel syndrome.

The sequence goes, with ratings

1985 - Westone Thunder 1A Natural Still owned 80% Great workhorse to this day.
2005 - Spuier P-Bass Special Purple Metallic Sold - 73% My sexiest bass ever.
2016 - Hudson PSB4 Fretless Natural Sold - 85% Lovely Fretless, not for me though.
2016 - Yamaha IGB68 Natural Still owned 62% Musicman Type. Alright.
2020 - Fender Player P-Bass Tidepool Blue Newly bought 85% Lovely. Still needs tweaking.

What I'd like?

The Dream.
A left-handed Gibson Triumph. Trouble is they do not make them.

The Reality.
An Ibanez of some kind.