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In the last 4 years or so i've done nothing but trades (bar the 2nd hand ABM head for £160), so i've spent absolutely nothing but string money pretty much.

If I were to buy now though...

Bacchus Venus = £1500
MIM Jazz + pickups = £500
Yamaha RBX = £400
Ashdown ABM300 = £250
Ashdown MAG210 = £180
= £2830

If I factor in all the old stuff I bought that wasn't traded for the above...
Squier Bronco = £110
Stagg MB300 = £130
Stagg BC305 = £120
Vintage V940FL = £200
Spector Q6 Pro = £350
= £910

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[quote name='tino' post='934062' date='Aug 23 2010, 07:25 PM']I base my findings thus
Gretsch G 6072 £1
Fender USA P £1
Fender Jaz £1
Fender Jag £1
Ibanez 74 RC £0.50p
obviously the other 20+ must have been less than 50p each................DEAR!
Oh and the amps were courtesy of the fairies[/quote]

hang on mate!? That can't be right! Nah there is no way a Fender USA P bass is THAT steep! :) (okay is she gone now?)

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could you all provide your full addresses and postcodes and also times when you will be out of the house, and i'll see about getting a van and a crowbar:)

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I'm looking at about 1k on basses, £500 for the amp, £300 or so on studio gear (then £150 on my guitar setup, cheap and cheerful yet very decent for the money)
I buy used 99% of the time, so my rig is pretty cheap, but packs a massive punch and sounds great IMO. I've not really changed anything for a while with the exception of the addition of a fretless.

However, it did take me a while to get here, and i would estimate i've spent in the region of 3k or so before i got where i am

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Custom Eagle "Wonky" - £600
Lakland DJ4 Jazz - £600
NJ Eagle "Pinky" - £110
NJ ST - £50
Platinum ST - £30
Gold Ironbird - £90
Thunderbird 5 - £200
Thunderbird 4 - £100
1960 Ibanez 1250 - free!

[b]£1,780[/b]

More than I thought; less than I might :)

Didn't include amps/effects - I don't want to upset myself :rolleyes:

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Wow,Gust0o,you got Wonky that cheap!!!,I paid over double that for her

As for my stuff,wouldn't have a clue on some of them

here is what I can remember

1994 Widow bass £432 + £20 shipping and currently having over £500 of work done to her
1985 Ironbird bass $1700 + shipping (Known to be broken before purchase)
2007 Widow bass $2400 (I think)
1985 Bich Supreme $3200
1987 ST bass $600
1979 Bich bass - swapped
1978 Mock bass - free
1981 Mock bass - free

Blue Yamaha RBX 6JM - swapped for a BCR guitar I paid less than £300 for
Red Yamaha RBX 6JM - swapped for a BCR bass I was given
Ibanez RG 570 G**tar - free
1990's BCR Warlock NJ II - probably around £300

So £6,000 odd,but actual value would be hard to judge as some were given to me,some I got amazing deals on,some I swapped

Replacement value would also be hard to judge,for example the retail cost of the 2007 Widow bass in the USA is $5,895,roughly £3,800,but Rosetti have a habit of removing the $ sign and replacing it woth a £ sign without any adjustment in the actual figures :)

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:) :rolleyes: :lol: I used to be into Classic Cars - I'm almost cured!

When I started to build up my original collection, I thought it would be cheaper pastime
than the cars - buying them, maintenance, tax, insurance, trips to loads of shows,
and misc expenses. . . . . . . It isn't!! :o :o :P

Total value £12 10/ 6d ;)

Hope Mrs Eric doesn't read this, the housekeeping will rocket to Twelve Bob a week!! :rolleyes:
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err

warwick stage one 400
JV p bass 650


£1050 for the two amazing basses, not bad eh!

i have sold 3 basses... and took a wee loss on compared to waht i spent on two and a profit on another so in that sense i am +£100 on trading....
tempted to sell the fretless...

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I started counting up the value of all my gear (at new-for-old prices) a while back for an insurance quote and stopped when I beat the £10k mark! But I don't smoke, only drink occasionally and don't have a swinging social calender so the money has to go somewhere!

Bass-wise it looks a bit like this:

Fender Precision - £600
Lakland Joe Osborne - £730
Lakland 55-01 - £400 (*Editor's Bargain Buy Award*)
Shuker Custom 6 - £1800(!)
EB MM Bongo - £700 (actually the 5 string version cost £700 and I straight traded that for this 4 string)
Warwick Corvette - £400
No-name acoustic bass - £50
Aria Pro II 5 - £170
Ibanez RD300 - £60 (going permanently to my brother when he brings my Warwick back)
Westfield P copy - £20 (now given it away)

So that's £4930 then. I'd hate to think how much I've [i]actually[/i] spent in the last 17 years... but this is what I have knocking about to show for it!

...worrying thing is I could happily live with just one... but don't make me choose!

...this total is probably enough to buy more than 1, possibly more than 2 of my dream basses - take note children!

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[quote name='Gust0o' post='936977' date='Aug 26 2010, 11:32 AM']I love your swap-shop antics on the Biches.[/quote]


Funnily enough,this is the second time I've owned this 1979 Bich 8,I sold it in 1992/3

First time I got it,I swapped a brand new G & L Asat for it

The other 1979 Bich 8 i used to own cost me a mint Washburn Status and £100,I sold that in 1993,I know where it is today,but the guy is out of his mind for how much £££'s he wants for it,considdering the damage he has done to it,I offered him £500 knowing I would have to spend around £600 to get it right again,but he refused,shame,he'll be keeping it then LOL

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[quote name='Musicman20' post='936488' date='Aug 25 2010, 09:59 PM']Spent too much, but nowhere near as much as my friends who are car fanatics.[/quote]
Too true.
If the value of my stack is less than or equal to the cost of my car, then I bought too expensive a car!
Besides which, in the 12 years I've owned my stack, I'm on my sixth car.
Collection?
Oh dear!

Quick maths makes it £9.5k!!! :)
Basses only, at prices paid. But over 18-odd years, that ain't so bad.
Doesn't include a broken s/h Ibanez. 2 s/h basses dismantled for spares.
Last time I undertake that exercise!

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[quote name='Chris2112' post='937724' date='Aug 27 2010, 01:18 AM']I remember seeing a Wal on sale at the gallery for £1200 a few years ago. It had some mojo but I recall a year later it would likely have appreciated probably 70% in value. It's a funny old game we're in![/quote]

I bought a Wal for £500, kept it for 4 years and played it pretty solidly then sold it on here for £1450 as I wanted a BCer to get it (knew I could get more for it elsewhere)....

Imagine how pi$$ed I was when the same punter sold it on the 'bay the week after for £700 more than I was asking... git... at least I got the credit card cleared, eh...

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