Kev

Hmm, Not in great nic, that Wal, certainly not at the new Buy it Now price! Strings over neck pickup do look odd, you can certainly see that the nut has shifted, but only by a little. Could be a trick of the camera, but this is certainly a bass to see any play before handing over a penny.

The BS1 is now with me Its a cool little (well, quite big actually) pedal. I owned a Woolly Mammoth so long ago I can't quite remember it, but this does a decent impression. From memory the Gate is nowhere near as tight as the Mammoth could get, but other than that it seems like a faithful clone. Build quality is quite nice, footswitch could be quieter but the knobs/pots feel high quality. Had to take off the battery assembly at the bottom to get it flat enough for pedalboard use but thats not much of an issue. Buying a battery for it would nearly cost as much as the pedal did But yes, other than it being a little oversized, a slightly poppy footswitch and a softer gate than its master, I can't complain too much at all Lows are THUNDEROUS!

I am a big fan of Rattlesnake leads, but they can work out a little expensive after delivery/customs. Nothing wrong with OBBM cables

[quote name='pmjos' timestamp='1460201441' post='3023505'] I have seen a few early Warwicks up for sale and I was wondering if they would become collectable as well as being the very usable instruments that they are. Will they ever be seriously sought after? [/quote] No, sadly. If anything, they are going down in value. As has been said, £900 odd with get you an eighties Streamer if you look in the right places. A few years ago you would be harder pressed to find one for less than four figures. Relative to handbuilt basses, there are so many of them knocking about as well, which doesn't help. The rarer models and [i]some[/i] LTDs are holding value a little better, but I can't ever imagine seeing them go up.

[quote name='Hugh971' timestamp='1460750937' post='3028562'] My custom Elwood arrived today! I'm proper chuffed with it. The craftsmanship is excellent and it plays like butter. The setup out of the box is perfect for me too, which is unusual. Usually I've got the allen keys out within 5 minutes of opening the box. Hugh [/quote] Love the simplicity! And refreshing to hear good news about the out of the box setup Congrats!

[quote name='Kev' timestamp='1427972155' post='2736436'] I will hopefully be taking delivery of one of the first new WMD Super Fatman pedals very soon. I loved the original and the new one has some interesting tricks up its sleeve, William has certainly stirred up the excitement anyway! [/quote] Well, the WMD Protostar has been with me for a little while now. Big step up from its little brother, really cool filter and the patch bay is something unique. Great with an expression pedal and the LFO is really musical too. Crazy and subtle sounds to boot Ultimately though, I will likely move it on (once its actually on general sale) as I don't have too much use for a filter at the moment. Saying that, would still like to try a Trutron...

Thanks for that ^^^ Off the back of that video I just bought the Little Bear on eBay! Loved the Woolly Mammoth, despised the price tag. For £20 odd, I'll give it a go

Ooo.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1459623645' post='3018199'] Getting paid is an important part of being a musician. [/quote] Interesting.

It would honestly be easier and cheaper to buy a second hand neck than try to fix this one. Corvettes can go real cheap on the market, particularly beat up ones.

Its just occurred to me that he states how this bass is tuned. How could he possibly tune any of the lower strings?

[quote name='grayn' timestamp='1459665104' post='3018416'] What a con. Looks like some cheap bass from the 70s. Sounds nothing special either. [/quote] This. The power of marketing?

[quote name='keefbaker' timestamp='1459607296' post='3018051'] Yeah, discovered that when I gave up and took it to the guitar shop. In the end, in order to bring the buzzing to a human level and still have a usable action they had to put a small shim in, which is a bad show, basically I think next time I get GAS I'll either buy direct from the bass show or nip to bass direct. After this I'm done with buying unseen. Not that it's bad, it sounds great in fact, it's just marred the whole experience, especially knowing I won't be able to completely get rid of the buzzing without having action a bus could ride under. [/quote] I would send it straight back, you should not have to take a brand new handbuilt bass to a tech to have it set up because its unplayable, let alone fit a shim!! [quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1459355228' post='3015755'] a freshly set up bass... in a likely different weather, after travelling and being stored cold etc etc... It's not unusual that something will move. But it should be pretty easy to restore it to what it was before it was posted, usually just a touch of truss rod one way or the other. However, that's just to restore the original set up. Who says that's what the customer prefers? I don't see what's so terrible about 'setting up' an instrument. I don't mean levelling frets etc, which should be perfect as it is new, I mean adjusting the neck curvature, saddles... Expecting others to set up a bass the exact way I like it is a bit too much. I nearly always tweak any new bass I get so that it plays the way I want it to. [/quote] Of course, you make small tweaks to adjust to your playing style. What this guy is describing is a bass that isn't at all playable out of the box, and has now apparently needed a shim to make it playable, with high action to boot. I wonder, how was it set up when it left the builder?