2025 Gear Abstinence Thread

[tauzero]

1 hour ago, miles'tone said:

I'm already a fortnight up on last year. I can do this... I can do this...

 

Almost time for the February abstinence thread.

[sprocketflup]

28 minutes ago, tauzero said:

 

Almost time for the February abstinence thread.

Now thats something I can get behind. 

[ezbass]

That's the tier 2 fail done. Roller bridge en route.

[Geek99]

Not what you meant by “well hung”…

Edited Monday at 14:03 by Geek99

[Chienmortbb]

2 hours ago, tauzero said:

 

Almost time for the February abstinence thread.

At least it is only 28 days.

[Kev]

Confident of a long run this year!

[Richard R]

https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/507822-2025-gear-abstinence-thread/page/2/#elControls_5395815_menu

 

 

Scores on the doors so far.

 

[mikebass456]

4 hours ago, Kev said:

Confident of a long run this year!

Me too - am on a thinning out purge this year after getting my Martin short scale for Xmas, so will only be strings and cables this year! 🤞

[neepheid]

I've already begun to try to be "under par" for the year - got a taker for a spare cab I'm giving away and have a preamp pedal up for sale.

[cocco]

10 hours ago, neepheid said:

I've already begun to try to be "under par" for the year - got a taker for a spare cab I'm giving away and have a preamp pedal up for sale.

I'm working to a similar idea. Trying to leave 2025 with less gear than I started with. 

[sprocketflup]

13 hours ago, neepheid said:

I've already begun to try to be "under par" for the year - got a taker for a spare cab I'm giving away and have a preamp pedal up for sale.

If only it worked that way, I'd sold a bass before Id bought a wireless system

[Geek99]

It’s like carbon-offsetting 

[lozkerr]

4 hours ago, cocco said:

I'm working to a similar idea. Trying to leave 2025 with less gear than I started with. 

Same here. PA, lights and a couple of amps will be finding their way onto the marketplace shortly. 

 

I'm not packing in gigging - it's just that the gear isn't getting the use I hoped it might and I can think of better uses for the money I'm spending on storage costs.

[msb]

I like to try and check out what was creating a buzz at NAMM every year. This time it was the new GK RB Legacy amps. Didn’t see much in the way of basses that interested me , perhaps the Dano Longhorns in new colours with the “f” holes.

I think I can be marked “safe” this year.

… some years ago Fender introduced a Japanese 51 reissue , and when it appeared on the Fender site on the first day of name I was at my favourite music store when they opened. Nose pressed up against the glass. As we’re on Atlantic time I was probably the first order in North America.

[ezbass]

Here’s an interesting conundrum. I would like a better gigbag for my Epiphone Casino Coupé and have seen the one that Guitar Guitar recommend for that size of guitar. This would be (another) tier 2 fail, as it’s for a guitar. However, it seems that the bag is big enough to be used for a Mustang, as it is pictured with a Jazzmaster in it (Mustangs seem to fit JM sized cases). Would this escalate it to a full on fail, or keep it in tier 2?

[wavemaker]

I’d say "not in the chain / grey area", and let you off the hook. 

Edited Tuesday at 17:17 by wavemaker

[paul_5]

I’m with Wavemaker - a happy accident. 

[Richard R]

I agree, a gig bag to protect a guitar is at worst a tier 2 failure, and arguably not even that.

[neepheid]

Damn, that purple Kramer D1 in the marketplace is testing me.  It's damn fine, isn't it?  Come on, I made it to May last year, I'm here to progress, not regress.  Nope, I must stay strong.  My withdrawl symptoms relief bass is slated to arrive in the next few weeks (ordered and paid for in September 2024, before you ask).

 

There will be other sparkly basses in 2026... because if you think I'm tolerating this nonsense for two years in a row, you're sorely mistaken!

[bass_dinger]

21 hours ago, ezbass said:

Here’s an interesting conundrum. I would like a better gigbag for my Epiphone Casino Coupé and have seen the one that Guitar Guitar recommend for that size of guitar. This would be (another) tier 2 fail, as it’s for a guitar. However, it seems that the bag is big enough to be used for a Mustang, as it is pictured with a Jazzmaster in it (Mustangs seem to fit JM sized cases). Would this escalate it to a full on fail, or keep it in tier 2?

I would congratulate you on repurposing and reusing equipment. A guitar gig bag can also be used as a bass gig bag, so you saved your bass-budget, _and_ you are taking your bass to a gig.  Spending less and playing more. 

[ezbass]

6 hours ago, neepheid said:

Damn, that purple Kramer D1 in the marketplace is testing me.

It seems that a fellow BCer threw themselves under the bass bus to save you from yourself. A close shave.

[Richard R]

I've signed up for an electronics learning project on how to build a bare-bones Raspberry Pi device without an operating system.

 

 

Turns out the project is to build one of these:

 

 

 

The Pi, breadboard and screen are generic, but I'll have to get hold of a midi keyboard, or at the very least a DIN-USB MIDI connector.

 

I'll declare a T2 fail when I know what I've bought.

[AndyTravis]

I bought 2 Hercules stands…

 

It’s to replace some knackered old ones.

 

thats ok?

[ezbass]

17 minutes ago, AndyTravis said:

I bought 2 Hercules stands…

 

It’s to replace some knackered old ones.

 

thats ok?

👍

[JottoSW1]

Abstaining for 2025 is easily accomplished,  am utterly broke.

Picked up my last acquisition a week before Xmas, a Trace Elliot 4 x 8.

Therefore I'm in at present..