TeeFunk

Hey! I need some new tuners for my bass and to my understanding the ones used by warwick are rebranded gotoh tuners. Now for some reason, the warwick tuners are a lot less expensive than gotohs, so I was wondering if anyone has any insight on this? Also, the big "W" on the back, is it engraved to the metal and would it come off?

If that neck through came with six strings and east electronics, I'd be asking where to preorder... I understand making a six string bass is not very smart business, but with all the seriously nice budget instruments that have been popping out lately, I'd like to see one that elevates the standard from the ibanez sr506's and whatnots.

My story is the old one. In my early teens I wanted to play an instrument. Drums were out of the question in an apartment building and keyboards were boring. I'm thinking bass, probably mostly because bass guitars looked cooler than guitars. Daddy says, "boy, get yourself a guitar, that's the instrument you can make music with ( )." So I get a guitar and a couple of lessons, learn a couple of ditties.. Until one day, when I picked up a jazz bass hanging on the school wall and plugged it in. Love at first note. Next day I traded my guitar in for a bass.

Hehe, fair enough. Metal is indeed ridiculously big over here. Too bad it really isn't my thing, but there is definately enough of other stuff too considering that finnish cities are puny villages on the international scale and the live scene is suprisingly vibrant. Maybe because many finns practically live in bars.. But if a person isn't into metal or rock, making a living just by playing is definately a challenge. And I'm not the only bass player. There's atleast three of us here. Well, four if you include Jan-Olof Strandberg, but that's a bit iffy

Hey! I just joined your wonderful community. I've been browsing these forums for quite long, but somehow never registered before. I'm a 26 years old and I live in Finland, but I do visit UK every now and then. I started playing bass in my early teens and lately I've been experimenting with other instruments too and building a bedroom studio. My playing seems to be mostly about funk, reggae, triphop and hip hop these days, or at least those are what I'm most familiar with and get to play most, but my Pink Floyd and John Coltrane vinyls are pretty worn too. 70's style jazz basses are the instruments that have grown on me unlike any other, but I'm definately thinking about getting back to the extended range club too and I'd be lying if I said that the sixers on the classifieds didn't interest me. By daytime I work with the other love of my life, exotic animals and my apartment is a bit of zoo, but fortunately I've been able to downsize it a bit lately. Anyhow, I look forward to participating and finding out more about you guys and gals! And sorry for all the mistakes with language I'm about to make (and have already made.)