Well, it looks like the search is over, in more ways than one. I wrote about my old 94 Ernie Ball Musicman Sterling bass in several places. How I traded it away (foolishly) and where it made its around the world.
From what I remember, I had it until 2008, then I traded it to someone in the Bothell area, who then sold it to someone in Oregon, who then sold it to someone on the East Coast, who then sold it to someone in the UK.
And that's where it was the last time I checked in 2016. For whatever reason, I got a wild hair to look it up again. It seems like they don't make Sterlings like that and in some of the threads I've read about that particular bass, no one had seen one as nice as that one.
So I reached out the the last owner I knew in the UK, a gent named Oliver. He got back to me today and said he sold it to a London shop in 2021. And then he saw it pop up in a UK bass forum called Basschat.
Don't know if I'll ever be able to get it back, as the current owner said in a post that it's his "never sell" bass. I'm going to reach out to just say hi and see how it's doing.
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