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On 07/08/2018 at 15:08, discreet said:

 I've had low-level GAS for a Vintage P for some time now...

:)  low-level GAS, I like that saying. I guess high-level is when the impulses take over? :)

I'm down to 6 now!

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Mine are  were in my signature.  The line up hasn't really changed in 5 years with the exception of the one I made.  I have just the Status, Pedulla and Stingray with me plus the one I made a couple of years ago.  The rest are in storage or at Mr Shukers waiting to have work done.

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26 minutes ago, Highfox said:

:)  low-level GAS, I like that saying. I guess high-level is when the impulses take over? :)

I'm down to 6 now!

Yes, high-level GAS is when ignition occurs, your buttocks get singed and you leap up and get the credit card out!

I'm down to two, but trying to justify a Vintage 4V MN purchase. It's very affordable, it's the right colour combo (no refin needed), the hardware and electrics are of sufficiently good quality  to make upgrades uneccesary, it plays very nicely, it sounds great, it looks the business and... you just can't have too many P basses!

Have I sold it to you yet? :)

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9 minutes ago, discreet said:

Yes, high-level GAS is when ignition occurs, your buttocks get singed and you leap up and get the credit card out!

I'm down to two, but trying to justify a Vintage 4V MN purchase. It's very affordable, it's the right colour combo (no refin needed), the hardware and electrics are of sufficiently good quality  to make upgrades uneccesary, it plays very nicely, it sounds great, it looks the business and... you just can't have too many P basses!

Have I sold it to you yet? :)

Sounds like you have already sold it to yourself:) High-level Gas incoming.

Looks very tasty I have to say, Maple all day for me.

I have 2 p's one with flats the other strung with rounds, that keeps my p-bass itch scratched.

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On 03/08/2018 at 17:03, casapete said:

9 currently, but looking to offload a couple fairly soon 😞

Thinking about it, maybe 10 actually. 

63 P bass

Fender Precision Lytes x3 ( Sunburst x2 and Frost White) - all late models with chrome h/w. Bought these as probably the lightest basses I can use for the gigs I do. My main one has done hundreds of gigs, the others are for when it wears out!

P-bass -unbranded metallic red with matching headstock (kept as stage spare, only used it twice I think).

Danelectro Longhorn in blueburst - early Korean reissue

Washburn AB 20 electro acoustic s/b

Taylor GS Mini-e electro acoustic

Countryman Uke bass

Tanglewood Elfin mini P- bass ( bought when I broke my shoulder to get me back into gigging! )

 

Great seeing some of the serious collections on here. Of course, had to show them to Mrs CP so she could see how miserable my few seem now....😂

 

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50 minutes ago, Highfox said:

I have 2 p's one with flats the other strung with rounds, that keeps my p-bass itch scratched.

Surely you also need a fretless with flats and another with rounds? That would make 4... then of course you'll need back-ups for those... so at least six. Better make it eight, just to be on the safe side... then one for noodling in the shed and another for noodling at the office. Better keep one in the car boot for emergencies... hmm...

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48 minutes ago, casapete said:

Thinking about it, maybe 10 actually. 

63 P bass

Fender Precision Lytes x3 ( Sunburst x2 and Frost White) - all late models with chrome h/w. Bought these as probably the lightest basses I can use for the gigs I do. My main one has done hundreds of gigs, the others are for when it wears out!

P-bass -unbranded metallic red with matching headstock (kept as stage spare, only used it twice I think).

Danelectro Longhorn in blueburst - early Korean reissue

Washburn AB 20 electro acoustic s/b

Taylor GS Mini-e electro acoustic

Countryman Uke bass

Tanglewood Elfin mini P- bass ( bought when I broke my shoulder to get me back into gigging! )

 

Great seeing some of the serious collections on here. Of course, had to show them to Mrs CP so she could see how miserable my few seem now....😂

 

@kodiakblair, and @cetera between them have certainly given my other half a sense of perspective! 

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Just the 2 for me.

1. A Mayones Jabba 5 (In a Black/Grey sunburst)

2. A Fender Deluxe PJ (in traditional sunburst)

I'm very much a hobbyist, with just a handful of gigs notched up so the two basses has been perfectly adequate for me.   Each bass is dedicated to a specific band, the 5 string J bass for a classic rock / pop covers  band and the 4 string PJ for the heavier alternative rock band.   The singist for the latter wants to get more serious about gigging, if that happens I think I'll pick up a Fender Nate Mendel P sig or a Lakland Skyline 44-64 custom as a back up / alternate tuning bass for the Deluxe.

My aim is to only own basses I will actively use / have a reason to own for so i've maintained  a one in / one out policy and fortunately don't really have GAS for any more basses right now,.  Amp heads however, this is where I think I'm going to be in trouble!!

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Nowadays it's just three. 

Currently a 1970 sunburst / rosewood / tort Fender P (my bass I've had for over 20 years.)

A 2003 Yamaha BB604.

A 2013 white/rosewood/tort MIJ Fender Mustang. 

Oh yeah and two electric guitars (mid 90s MIJ sunburst strat and an Epiphone Casino Gary Clark Junior) plus three acoustics (an early 2000s Crafter DE7 which I gig all the time, plus a small travel size Tanglewood and a now fairly wrecked Hohner I bought at Argos in 1988 - the guitar I learned on). 

I used to like buying and selling and treating myself to gear when I was gigging a lot more regularly. I sold off the stuff I wasn't using which was taking up room and meant thousands of pounds was locked up in it. 

I could easily live with just the Precision, the Crafter acoustic and the Strat to be honest, and it may end up that way at some point.

Stresses me out when I have loads of unused kit lying around.

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I own 6:-

EBMM USA Sterling4 HH black with green pearl plate

Squier JV-P fiesta red

Warmoth P with J neck and East pre Yellow

Warmoth PJ fretlessJneck -Green

Warmoth dinkyP - black with Status J neck

Fender 300CE acoustic

 

I have no interest in getting any more

I have no desire to sell any

 

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I have 11 and three maybe four in bits.  I have been playing since 1980, and its the 'internet auction site who must not be named' fault and PayPal enabling me to by internationally so at last count I have owned something like 200.  Dont make any money at it or anything just like to own 'em for a while.  I can give up anytime (honest).

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Whoa, just dipped into the single figure ownership after a couple of sales.  Oh dear, do Rennie do a 'prevent G.A.S version?'

For what its worth my herd..

  1. Zemaitis fretless bass (1989)
  2. Dingwall combustion 5
  3. Maruczszyk LT 5 string
  4. SBMM Ray34
  5. Yamaha 424x
  6. p bass bitsa (Dimarzios)
  7. j bass bitsa (fender body, Lindy fralins...)
  8. p bass bits 'roadworn'
  9. Warwick corvette 5 string
  • Steinberger stick bass kit half done
  • refurb of an old stingray half done
  • frankenbass lp bass body Washburn bantam neck..

 

 

 

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10 minutes ago, jensenmann said:

1. Wal Mk2 5string fretted

2. Wal Mk2 5string fretless

3. Wal Mk2 4string Midibass

4. Fender Jazzbass 1962

5. Fender Jazzbass 1992 MIJ

6. Fender Precision 1974

7. Greco TB-70 Thunderbird

8. Spirit/Steinberger XT-25

 

Wal blow me!

 

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