Why I'm DONE Selling Basses - Floof the Bassist 

Biggest selling regret of mine is probably moving on a 1981 Guild B402-A. Super rare, like

A couple things: 1) Never say never. For over 30 years, my Horde Mind and my Thin-The-Herd Mind are constantly doing a WWE Smackdown in my head 2) Doing studiowork forever, pickup placement is important. When I do sessions (I should change that to "did" because its few and far between these days), I go with several basses all with pickups in various positions to really nail what the client wants (for the record, that was usually always a Jazz or a twin pickup instrument more often than not)....Unlike you, my better days are behind me so I may wind up selling off a bunch of things soon 3) This shirt is OK that is all -- see ya over at the messageboard

The optimal number of basses is your current number plus one :) I've owned two basses since the early/mid 90s, but did sell a number of others throughout the 90s. I had a 1995 Fender Jazz MIJ that would be neat to still have, but I'm lucky in that I really only regret selling one really, my very first one. It was a short scale made in probably japan I think with what I know now, it had some issues but I could have fixed them now probably.

If there is anything you're looking for, let me know. My collection got up to 225 or 250 bassss. I'm down to about 100 or so. If they're something you want, and I have it, we can try and work something out.

I have also been experiencing this recently, I swap between a Markbass and a Rick that gets me just about any tone I want. But I still have regrets about a vintera mustang I traded. And still find myself compulsively browsing when I don’t need 🙃

We all suffer with sellers regret. I got about a half dozen i would take back in a second. I even thought about Selling my Geddy recently... Nope!