Lost dogs - basses you wish you could buy back... Have you got it now?

[Meypelnek]

Had a Schack Basic Unique 5-String for more than 15 years. Than I started to severly modifying it (Music Man PUs in neck and bridge position). Finally I sold it to get the real thing: A Music Man StingRay. Now I miss it like hell (but would not want to give the Ray back).

[Dad3353]

Not a bass, but my first 'real' guitar, a Hofner President E2 thin, Florentine cutaway...



...swapped/sold foolishly for a Burns Bison 6-string. This was '67, regretted it ever since. If ever it or its twin shows up, I'll be looking hard at my piggy bank..!

[interpol52]

I had a USA Fender Jazz, black with black pickguard and rosewood neck. It was a 2005 I think with the S1 switching thing, even though I never used that feature. A good solid bass that never ever let me down and did all kinds of mileage with me. So although it's not a 60's P bass, or anything near as special as that, I wish I still had it!

[Qlank]

Tokai Jazz basses. 1982. Candy Apple Red, fretted, put a chrome scrachplate on it, real sexy. Fretless Sunburst, just lovely to play. Both sold early 90's because I was skint. And the kicker: Ibanez Ric copy. Bought in 1980 for £70, put Schaller tuners and a really solid Kahler bridge on it. Sold the Ibanez to a good mate who bought it for his brother-nice gesture. Have since replaced the fretless with a VM fretless, the Candy Apple Red with a Geddy Lee and the Ibanez with a European made copy. Thank god I didn't buy the Wal I played in some shop in Soho 30 years ago for peanuts and then sold it on-that would have been a gutter. That was a trully great bass.

[andysleigh]

when i was 14 i scored a gibson g3 off german ebay for £350.

stupidly a year or so later i swapped it at a shop for a burns bison.... huge mistake!

but 3 years or so ago i saw it on ebay in this country and just had to buy it back, even tho it was twice what i paid before.
and sadly the original hard case had disappeared down the line.

i found the bloke who owned it between me owning it, on youtube, as he put a few vids up with it, but he hasnt logged in for years, and thus not replied to any messages.

[Low End Bee]

Only 2 from around 1980! I had a mid 60s Epiphone Rivoli in Natural that was a looker. Bought and sold when they had no hip value at all. Would be fun for the occasional outing and videos/photos.
I do reallly miss my black Shergold Marathon though. My first proper bass. I 'upgraded' to a '68 sunburst P bass that was actually a bit of a dog. My current 2007 Precision would kick its arse in every department. I wouldn't want that one back.

[philw]

There was a time, ten years or so ago, when I owned a pair of Steinberger L2s (one fretted, one fretless) that were just a few serial numbers apart. Both of them were in really good condition, complete with the often lost plug-in leg rest. I sold them both (far too cheaply). What a stupid arse I was. What was I thinking?

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[fretmeister]

This modified Status Energy




I know someone on here has it and I'd love to get it back. I sold it to Bamboo and I know he sold it on.

At the time I didn't have the money to buy it back and I can't remember who bought it from him


It was a fretted bass, but it was in dire need of a refret and when I spoke to Status I ended up asking them to make a brand new fretless neck for it.

If anyone has it and wants to sell it, then please let me know!

[Roland Rock]

I've only ever gotten rid on one bass in twenty years of playing - it was a white mid '80s 2EQ Ray. I've never regretted trading it in. Good bass, but not for me

[Deep Thought]

I had a Japanese 60's reissue Precision which I wish I hadn't sold, what with the regard that Japanese instruments are held in these days.

[earhook]

Lent out a fretless ibanez musician. Never saw it again.

[Bassman Sam]

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[anzoid]

Just two - a Westone Spectrum Series II which was my first bass in 1990 (or there abouts...) and a Yamaha RBX800AF in pearl white that I bought in '92 whilst at Uni. I sold both to buy a five string Westfield which was OK but never really fit. Now, after 25 years of playing I have moved from a series of small amps to a GK MB500 + 2x10 cab and I wonder what those two basses would sound like. They both played well, as far as I can remember, but never sounded great through the amps I had. I started out with a Laney 65W with a 15" cone which generally just sounded like mud and after I got rid of that I've only ever had small 35 to 50W amps - until the GK. Would love to get my hands on the (or a) Yamaha RBX800AF fretless in particular but very very rarely see them come up - anyone got one?

[BassAgent]

I still kind of regret selling three basses.

First up: my main bass for quite a few years, Yamaha TRB5II. Not a brilliant bass but very decent and I still love the feel of those Yammies. I don't want this one back necessarily, but a similar bass would do. I don't know who owns this bass currently.


I used to have two TRB5's. The second one was a 2nd generation TRB5, which was refinished by a previous owner and given a new fretless ebony fingerboard. No idea of the current owner.


I regret selling this a little bit. It's a great bass (the little bit legendary Skarbee bass) and I loved playing it, but it was of no use in my playing with some decent other basses in my collection, and I got a pretty darn fantastic De Gier Bebop 5 in return. But boy, are those Celinder basses good. I want one again. Someday. I sold this one to a Basschat member, I guess he still has it.


And last but not least: the best deal I ever made. I got this all original JV Precision for €75, and it included a horrible Fender amp, Blue Note strap, pretty decent cable and stand. I sold it to buy a 5 string Lakland. I sold the Lakland for a Gretsch hollowbody. Sold that for a Fender Road Worn Precision. So I shouldn't have sold the JV. Basically, I sold it to buy a Precision. The guy I sold it to still owns it, plays it and loves it. As he should.

[patrikmarky]

Ibanez atk 405 ..why oh why did I sell this ...like hens teeth now

[merlin]

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would love to have this back,gigged her for years swapped it on a whim to the London bass center for a 5 string,regretted it for years twas a Ric 4005 ex show model,has the name Ralf in the back by the pots. the pic about 1980ish,

Edited January 22, 2015 by merlin

[Russ]

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Ibanez atk 405 ..why oh why did I sell this ...like hens teeth now
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I had one of those for a while. Spectacularly good instrument for the money, and probably the best recorded sound I've ever had. The newer ATKs just aren't as good.

[patrikmarky]

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I had one of those for a while. Spectacularly good instrument for the money, and probably the best recorded sound I've ever had. The newer ATKs just aren't as good.
[/quote]agree mate ...I bought a atk 805 ...it's not the same beast ...nice looking but that's as far as it goes ..

Edited January 22, 2015 by patrikmarky

[tauzero]

I'd rather like my old Hayman 40/40 back, mainly for sentimental reasons. PXed it for a Precision in the late 70s/early 80s (which I'm not sure was the best thing I could have done), and then traded that in for a Warwick Thumb that I still have.

[danweb22]

Would love to get my Shuker Uberhorn 5 back, had it built for me and I believe it has gone through a couple of members on here now (see members pic below as I don't have any of my own anymore!)

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[Brother Jones]

In 1998 I had a 1970 (my YoB) American Jazz. It was a lovely bass - very well put together, and possibly the best Jazz I've ever played. I sold it because the woman I was pursuing at the time wanted me to go on holiday with her..

At one point a few years ago I had my ideal collection - a Sadowsky Metro 5, a Sadowsky UV70 four string, a Zon Sonus fretless four, and a Sonus fretted four.I just gradually let them all go.

[paul h]

I had some kind of MTD...one of the cheaper ones. Played absolutely beautifully but I hated the sound and it had a weird problem with static I couldn't fix.

I had to get rid of it...and a bunch of other stuff...to meet a mortgage payment

Should have kept it and swapped out the pickup.

[lou24d53]

Probably my only regret of late would be trading my black / maple Sadowsky M4 to Karlfer a few Christmases ago...

Don't get me wrong, the Fender AVRI '75 is killer, but I do still miss that black beauty!

Was an absolute steal in Guitar Guitar in Glasgow as well for only £999.00...!!

[johnbiffa]

I had a matched pair of Wal basses, fretted and fretless in Olive green wood stain and new in 1980, should definitely held on to them, anyone have them in BC Land? Was living in Bristol then and sold them around 1981

[Dood]

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Shame the pictures are round the wrong way, but here's a bass I'd like to track down! It was a 69ish (Ash?) P bass body that had been (as far as I can tell) stripped and refinished. The neck wasn't original and I suspect it was a US RI neck. The neck was dated 1982. It was an unusual P bass that had a pickup with Allen Key shaped poles, suggesting that it could have been a dimarzio. The neck IIRC was heavily figured and possibly bird's eye. Topping off the spec was a set of reverse Kluson keys, headstock strap button and black pickguard.

The artwork was a window sticker, thus came straight off without residue and the thumb rest was also removed before sale but would have left two screw holes behind.

I think a guy from Bury St Edmunds bought it from me, but this was well over 15 years ago!!!

I'm off to find some clearer pictures, but I have to say, this was one awesome sounding bass!
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Nyargh! My pictures have disappeared- I'll remedy that later. The only thing I'm wondering about is that I've not found many examples of birds eye precision necks. Mine had a rosewood board.