Well … what did you think I was talking about?
A primary and a backup, a fretted and a fretless, a four and a five, one with flats and one with rounds, or two just about the same just because you feel like it: if you’ve got twin basses, I want to see them and I doubt I’m the only one.
(If you can’t imagine why someone would want two of the same thing, you may have more fun in the “get off my lawn” thread; please say hello for the rest of us.)
(If you have the same bass in different colors, or different models in the same color, awesome! … but that’s something else. You should join or start that thread!)
If you have twins (as defined below), photographs, and a story, please share yours below.
I’m not going to hand out club numbers or police the thread, but I will suggest some parameters to differentiate this from existing twin-ish threads:
•twins here should look as much alike as possible—this is the point
•at a minimum, same finish, fingerboard material, hardware color, body style; ideally same headstock, pickup configuration, and electronics
•allowances necessarily made for different string count, different types of strings, presence or absence of frets, different levels of wear
If you have something close, but not quite, I suggest contributing to one of the handful of twin-ish threads that hasn’t totally died down yet. Again, the idea here is to see nearly identical instruments and the stories behind them.
Examples:
I like to have matching four- and five-strings. I got the five first in summer 2019, trying to sonically match a very different looking four; but I fell in love with the ‘70s Precision aesthetic, and immediately had to have a visual match in a four. Both then got the orange edges on the pickguards, just to make them mine.
Same idea with these ATKs, but this pairing played out over a much longer time frame. I got the five new as a teenager in the mid-‘90s. It got sticker bombed, beat on, and neglected; the pickguard was irredeemable, so I just did without. But as the search for a P5 dragged on, I remembered how much I loved this bass. I got a period-correct four to match in April 2019, but I needed to do something about the mismatch of pickguards. For $2.66 and a sore palm, I got these sheet metal screws in, and again, now they’re mine. Maybe I can sell the pickguard for a tiny profit
There are my perfect pairs. Let’s see yours!
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