You know we can still make that happen, right? 
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Ooh, those inlays are beautiful.
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It’s been some years since they made one I think. Would they make another on request?
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Got it! I guess I hadn’t seen your post about the Woodline from back then…
It’s a great bass, but I haven’t fully bonded with it yet. I guess, I have just too many basses and only play very, very few at the moment…
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Really wish I still had my first Bass. Was a Concerto, I remember it being about $110.00. The photo is of a Polaroid picture of me with it from 1978. Had 4 different amps during the few years I had the guitar. Two Vox amps, first one quit working so it went back under warranty and I got a loaner, really liked the loaner, it was a Barclay. Vox came back and worked for a little while then had the same failure again, took it back and asked if since it was still under warranty for the second time I could trade it for the Barclay. They had sold the Barclay so I had to get the Fender amp that they had in the same price range as the Vox.
I came home from school one weekend and was looking for it. Wanted to take it back with me, couldn’t find it in the house anywhere. Sorry for the messed up picture.
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Good story…thanks for sharing.
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Thanks @howard!
However, I never pine after brands or models.
I only pine after specific basses that have been in my hands, that played amazing, and that had the right vibes.
It keeps things more romantic that way… and saves me heaps of money and space in my workroom.
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Trading in my first bass was bitter sweet. I actually said goodbye to it on the way out of the music store, but it was a great decision and I’m more than happy with my current bass.
Sometimes at night when I’m alone I wonder where she is and if anyone is playing her. 
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Pining isn’t a word I’d use myself. There have been basses and guitars I’ve come to regret not owning any longer but then I’ve been divorced twice and had several more serious relationships not work out. I can’t honestly say I’d trade what I have today to get any of that back including the wives and significant others.
The only one I may even think about hunting down is a Modulus M92-5 I bought in the early 90s and in a weak moment sold about 10 years later. I do wish I had not done that but again. Would I still have it today? Maybe and maybe not. Don’t even have a photo of it any longer.
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For me it’s a second-hand regret because my dad had a Fender Jazz bass and a Gibson SG bass (or whatever the model name was at the time) from the late 60s or early 70s. Around 1975, he essentially gave them to a friend of his after he quit the band he was in (technically loaned them indefinitely to the dude then completely lost touch with him).
I need to get a hold of some Pym Particles so I can go back in time and jack slap the hell out of him for even considering letting those out of his sight.
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