Old Basses - where to find em?

[anzoid]

A while after I first started out playing bass (so, late 80s) I bought a Yamaha RBX800AF in pearl white - a lined fretless. I didn't really understand what I'd bought and never really made much of a go of it. I was playing through crappy amps and really didn't know what I was doing and never got a sound that I liked so I sold it. But I've never forgotten this bass...

I think I'd like to try and find another one (in pearl white even), but how do I go about finding one?

I could put an ad in "Items Wanted" but I'm not committed to buying something - I kinda just want to know out if I can even find one of these in good condition (i.e. not totally dinged after nearly thirty years). I've never seen one of these come up on eBay (ha ha) and a search here turns up nothing.

Any ideas? Or do I just need to live with nostalgia... my first bass was a Westone Spectrum Series II that I loved and one came up recently somewhere and I was like "Really, I used to play one of those?!? Ugh..."

[BigRedX]

These days the best bet is the usual suspects like eBay and Gumtree.

However with it being a Yamaha you might also check out the [url=http://store.ishibashi.co.jp/ec/proList/doSearch/srDispProductList/1/1/%20/11933263000/1/%20/%20/%20/%20/%20/%20/1/40/0/0?jp=on&wd=%20&searchType=0&chgCateFlg=1&excludeSearchWord=%20&facetSearchType=0]Ishibashi Ubox[/url], and if your knowledge of Japanese is good or you have people you know living out there you could also try [url=http://www.digimart.net/search?category12Id=359&keywordAnd=Yamaha+RBX&x=0&y=0]Digimart.[/url]

Good luck!

Edited January 13, 2017 by BigRedX

[bassmayhem]

I saw an old Gibson EB-0 with the old Les Paul double cutaway body at a VERY small shop in Rome some years ago. They had a lot of old stuff, mostly semi.acoustic.
Bandiera Strumenti Musicali on Via Cavour. They had two or three smal shops on the same block; one guitar shop. http://www.bandierafranco.it/shop/

[Rocker]

SomeNeckGuitars in Dublin. They are on the internet thing....