What should be a new addition to the family.

[JimBeed]

Well over the past two years my collection has grown by two, and im thinking that once the jazz bass is upgraded and finished, i will only be roughly one short of a good arsenal of the various (to a point) sounds.
Now its currently:
A Epiphone Thunderbird, all stock (my first bass, currently on loan to a friend for recording purposes)
A Fender Pre 2009 Standard P Bass, all stock, might get a new pickguard(Pre 2009 as it has the S1 switching system, new revisions dont)
My Warmoth five string z bass with powerbucker and jazz neck pickup.
And my University project 4 string jazz bass.
Now im contemplating, and have discussed, a four/five string iceman with passive or active music man pickups.
However i just wanted to see what you guys thought might be a good Fifth, Likely final bass for a good number of years.
I have been using the jazz and warmoth a great deal since i started back at university. And will be giving my fender a clean up and get back to playing that for the rest of my year up here before i move home and finish the jazz bass for two months.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Im considering postponing whatever i get till i finish university properly. and save up over the time.

 

[swarfrat]

That many basses and no fretless yet? If you're not into it that's fine, but I think I'd be thinking 6 string fretless gecko coffee table or something vain and eccentric like that.

 

[JimBeed]

True, another idea of mine was a lp bass, with either a maple dyed top, or bare wood, theres a few nice showcase bodies, and go for the whammy bar on there haha.
Fretless i will look into, i think when i get home i will ask my bass teacher who works for fender if he has any fretless basses i could have a try on first.
Saves me trips to a big music shop, and i get to see one of my buddies again after a year  :laughing7:.
The lessons were good, the weird conversations were better 

 

[Miskatonic]

Well Abraham Kane if you were going to do another bass you could do a five string Gecko with black korina body, all goncalo alves neck and goncalo alves top laminate with a burst of some sort, and get the same burst on the bottom with the black korina grain as a bit of a contrast. 

 

[JimBeed]

Haha, yeah hence why i stuck with the other way round  :laughing7:
Hmmmmm i like it.
This fifth bass really is a may do it, may not do it.

 

[Miskatonic]

If I ever had a bass built it will have that wood combo but probably with the G5 body and the black-red-yellow burst. I'm not a big fan of just having the wood with a gloss finish, so I figure a burst at least allows people to see the grain pattern through the finish.

 

[Velcro]

I once had an epihphone(?) explorer, the first thing I did with it was drag behind my car for half an hour, submerge it in water for a day, doused it in petrol set it on fire for 10-15m minutes. I replaced all electronics with dimarzios and it's my best bass.

 

[JimBeed]

Hmmm all good ideas, time to wait till summer incase my old bass teacher has a fretless