Nice looking family you have there @ChrisP .
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Love the Sire, that pick guard is where its at.
I had that Schecter. Elite 5, in that color. I liked it just fine, as far as 5 strings go, I just decided that 5 isn’t really my thing, so I sold off the two I got, that being one of them.
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Once again, gotta love that natural woodgrain with matching headstock & body!
So much nice detail to admire . . . 
Cheers and good luck with it, Joe
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Thanks!
The pick guard was actually a one-off in transparent day-glo orange that I vinyl wrapped the back so you couldn’t see through it and it popped even more lol. I even got a righton! straps custom bass man strap to match.
That schecter is a gem. Despite being long scale, it’s actually quite comfortable to play. I do have to hold it at a slightly higher angle, but the relatively flat fretboard radius actually makes it easier for me to mute consistently. I was blown away that my wife actually bought it for me before I had any grid for bass guitar at all. The quilted top is unbelievable. It’s Orange and holographic looking. She is actually going in to have the frets crowned and polished, a new nut, and possibly upgrade the EQ. There’s a new EMG version out that has a sweepable mid range and two stacked knobs that’s supposed to be plug-n-play.
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Yeah, Orange is my color. I bought a bunch of basses because they were orange, and cuz I liked them when I first played them.
Schecter, I have never really played one that did not feel “Right”, I think they are always super comfortable to play, including that Elite-5. Mine was an 2006 serial number.
I bought that for a deal that I turned quite a profit off, and I bought another ESP LTD B-155DX 5 string from a pawn shop that was like new, for $180, and I liked the feel of both, and had intended to keep them for transition to 5 string.
For a while, I had basses coming in and going out weekly, pretty much always turning a profit (cuz I started playing a little before Covid, and when Covid hit, the Offer Up site in my location blew up), and when I started running out of room, I started picking and choosing, and selling off things that I started not liking as much as other things.
Plus, I just decided that 5 string just was not my thing. I had at first decided to sell one and keep the other, but couldn’t decide which, so I listed them both for $400, and said I would not sell either for under $350, and which ever went first, I would keep the other.
The Schecter went first, oddly enough, to somebody that came to look at the LTD, but took the Schecter. Then I stuck the, if I can’t get $350 for it, I am keeping it. I ended up selling the LTD for $350 too.
So, LTD, bought for $180, sold for $350, never even re-strung it, it had new strings when I got it.
The Schecter, I paid $400 for the Elite-5, with a Hartke HA-2500 amp head, AND a Hartke 8x10 cabinet.
SEE
You have to buy that, right, even tho I only wanted the bass.
Oh yeah, it came with a hard shell case as well, and an unopened set of carving strings (5).
So, I sold the Amp Head for $75 in like a day
The Cabinet in about 6 weeks for $300, and eventually sold the bass about a year later for $375.
So, $170 profit off the LTD, and $350 Profit off the Schecter combo.
I always keep my eye out for an Elite-5 in that same color. I will buy one if I see one. It also comes in a dark cherry, which is acceptable, but not as nice as the orange. I tried to snag an Elite-4 in dark cherry in a combo with a few amps, but the lady weirded out on my.
She was trying to sell it for $1000, then dropped it to $750.
I offered her $350 for the bass only, and she said no.
then she dropped the whole combo down to $500, so I offered her $300 for the bass only, and she still said no, and dropped the whole thing down to $400, so I told her I would buy it, and she said OK.
Then she put me off for about a week and then just stopped talking to me, then listed it as SOLD. Then resisted it a piece at a time. The Elite-4 for $400, one Ampeg 210 combo I think for $250 and a smaller amp combo for like $100
I watched her drop prices on all of them and calculated what she ended up selling them for, and she only ever got $400 for everything, and it took her like an additional 2 months to sell it.
After a while her weird attitude, I just forgot about dealing with her and watched just for the show. It was pretty funny in the end.
I am pretty sure she was selling her EX BF or Hubby’s stuff, and didn’t really know what she had, and was trying to sell it for near new, but in the Covid market, everything was selling stuff for way less then 50%, so she just didn’t play any part of that whole deal right.
About orange basses, at one time I had like 4, and now I have none, sadly, but I really decided that the orange ones, as awesome looking as they were, just were not the right bass’s for me. The Schecter, being a 5 string. Too of them were Ibanez SR’s (300 and 400), that I loved at first, but in the end, I ended up not feeling the Ibanez much anymore, and felt the tonal range was weak, and not to my liking.
But even if I still love orange basses, even if they are not ones I want to play, I still like to look at them.
Or Orange Pick Guards, Amps, or even Orange strings, which Is what I had to settle for on my Stingray since I couldn’t find a pick guard that color, but would put that color on my Stingray in a heartbeat.
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Yeah, I even considered getting a Herrick Pick up, the Neo-bucker with Orange covers, for my EBMM SLO Special Stingray that is White, since they will make pick up covers in any color you want, and I am pretty sure if you buy a pick up, you choose the color, with no price hike.
I just don’t feel the need to upgrade the EBMM MM pick up.
If I had a white or even black SBMM Ray4, I would defiantly upgrade the pick up with that Orange Herrick.
And that is probably not unlikely, I have seen a few Ray4’s going for like under $150 around me lately, and it is getting hard to not bite.
Ray 4 is my go to bass, as long as you put a good pick up in it. It has a Jazz like neck, or a SLO neck (why I got the SLO Special, its a Stingray with a Sterling or SLO or Jazz neck on it), but I play my Ray4 way more then I play my actual Stingray.
Love them both, but had the Ray4 first, and it was the first Stingray that I fell in love with, and in all honesty, it is the first and only bass that I bought from the store, brand new, pulled fresh out of the box for me.
Its what made me sell my Orange Ibanez’s, after playing the Ray4, SR’s didn’t do it for me anymore.
Thats not entirely true. I ordered and got new out of the box, the Ray4HH, but I could not connect with the 2 pick up version, and ended up selling it, since I kept it past the return window, kept thinking I would end up connecting with it, but I didn’t.
If I had changed the pick ups, I might have ended up liking it, and I kind of regret selling it first and not trying it with new pick ups, but thing is, when you add 2 pick ups to a SUB Ray, you start putting as much money in electronics into it as the damn bass cost.
I later realized some pickups that are way better then stock, and way cheaper then the the more costly options, like Aguilar, EMG, Delano, even Seymour Duncan’s are $100, but there are options like Kent Armstrong’s which are about $50.
had I known before I sold it, I might have just liked the damn thing and kept it.
Oh well, it left me with goals and future projects, just what I need.
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Well. In the vault at work I found another Spector ( the only Spector) that was just sitting in a box. I had to look, and I had to have it.
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That is a gorgeous bass
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Where do you work? Any openings? 
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I work weekends at Bizarre Guitar in Reno NV.
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Isn’t this your second signed bass?
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i have the same bass mine is 2010. its a vintage modifed, the “s” means special run, it is for the finish color, pretty sure they call it natural. i have seen them on ebay well over 300.00, people seem to be going nuts for Squires.
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That is really a nice looking bass. Congrats!
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The second bass is not a signed model. Stuart Spector stopped signing them when he retired. The second one is a Custom Shop model.
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@Whylee Daa-yumm
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Grats on both! Need to see a picture with both next to each other 
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Wowsa……wood.
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{insert inappropriate wood joke here}
But, um, yeah, me too. Those are gorgeous.
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I have a new boat!
I got this beauty just last week. It’s an Italian handmade instrument. The company is called “contrabassielettirici mk” the name is quite literal! I have traded it for my Fender Precision Vintera MIM…
Before this one I had borrowed a palatino from my instructor for a couple of weeks. It really got me starting but I missed the full body feel.
This model is called Studio, it’s the entry level for this company. I’m really enjoying the feel and sound of it. It’s super light (lighter than my GnL) and quite portable with its gig bag.
So far I have been studying the first position with some scales and tried out some simple blues lines video is right after the first lesson…
And here is a video with Palatino with the make shift support thingy… It was before the lesson 
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