Breedlove Solo Fretless ABG

Alas, they dont @sleigh. But this has become one of two dream bass guitars. The other is a 5 string passive Fender P-bass.

Honestly, I don't. I like(d) my Epiphone El Capitan (five strong, fretless), which I picked up used pretty cheap (a couple hundred bucks), but I've been having issues with it of late with the electronics as well as the string height; it needs some serious work and I haven't had time to do it. Gigging, I use a Roscoe solid body 5-string.

In the price range you have, I'd tell you to look at your local used market in hopes of grabbing something that retailed higher, but at least around here, ABGs aren't common, so patience is needed.

New, Ibanez and Alverez make ABG in that range, but I haven't looked around for ABGs in ages, so I'm haven't actually touched or played one.  Fender has a Kingman SCE Acoustic-Electric Bass Guitar that retails just outside your upper range ($599).  Guild has a Guild Westerly Collection B-140E that's at $799 at Sweetwater—I like Guilds, but again have never touched or played their ABGs.  And I'd love to try out Godin's A4 but it's way out of your range (and mine). 

If you have a store that stocks the Kala U-Bass, you might give it a listen.  They're strange instruments--very small, very short scale, and the string are loose and feel like you're plucking a huge rubber band, but plugged-in they sound very 'upright'-like.  And they're in your price range. I've been tempted to pick one up just to give the guys in the band a heart attack when they see it.

For me, an additional complication is that I'd want a five-string fretless model, and those are even harder to find (and sometimes just don't flat-out exist).

I saw 4 or 5 Breedlove ABGs in the shop in town yesterday. I didn't look closely enough at model numbers, but I thought  there was a 5 string (or two?) in the group. Looking at the Breedlove website, they don't show a 5 string model, but I don't think they show the guitars I saw yesterday either. These guitars all looked like quite large bodied guitars, but I don't know a lot about acoustic basses. If I had been interested in something along those lines those Breedloves stood out, appearance wise anyhow. They were not as plain looking as the website guitars. I should have looked at them more closely.

ABG?
All Balsam Guitar ?

i know i know, Acoustic Bass Guitar.. lemme have my fun...