Kev

HI Andy, nice to see another fellow Alpher player on here I am not a theory driven bloke so cannot comment too deeply I'm afraid, however in my opinion, providing your left hand technique can adapt to the different spacing and extra width, there is no negative in having a 5th string. All it does is give you an extra 4 notes and tons of positions. If I was starting to play bass all over again, I would have choose to start with a 5 string.

Hmm. I have never managed to clip a Markbass head. If you turn the volume control down on the bass, does the 'clipping' stop, or does is it just quieter? If its the latter, its not the amp that is clipping.

Ah, the law of Sod

Nordstrand preamps are fantastic, most musical preamp I have used

Cheers for the comments on the Dolphin Loving that Thumb, Luke!

I only thought to do it as I already had the beeswax and oil it would cost me nothing. It has left my Warwick looking rather lovely and feels good, however I think I'll probably just buy a tin in the future don't like the idea of the word 'rancid' associated with my basses haha!

[quote name='The Hat' timestamp='1455520588' post='2979689'] As I've already mentioned numerous times [/quote] Not really

I have had two blocks of pure beeswax in my bits box for a while, so decided to do something with it. I chopped some up, melted with some olive oil, cooled and now have made myself what appears to be a lovely guitar wax for use on my oil finished basses. Started by rubbing some in to my Warwick bass and buffing off, seems to do a cracking job. Anyone else do this? I am wondering if there are any pitfalls to using a polish that is quite literally just pure beeswax and olive oil.

Birthday, or a family we can all envy?!! Congrats! If its the washers, won't tightening the tuner nuts quickly solve that?

Par, most jazz bass types built in the far east. Logo on the headstock goes an awful long way with Fender, unfortunately. Buy a Squire Classic Vibe for a fraction of the price. 9/10, it is more than comparable, and you can probably buy 3 for the cost of a US Standard. Crazy, really.

Congrats dude! Here is a few of the Dolphin

Warwick Dolphin Broadneck 5 now in my possession Complete with the original Bass Pass Port Decent pics will come

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1454850640' post='2973491'] Were there no pictures in the selling thread? That always seems odd to me. [/quote] The seller has deleted the pictures.

17,600, through laptop speakers, I'm 27. I'm really doubtful how accurate this test is, though.

[quote name='Ruck' timestamp='1454786476' post='2973023'] He's just told me he is not going to refund me and it is upto DPD to compensate me. Which I doubt will happen either. well. damn. Not surprising of course. [/quote] DPD will not compensate you, you are not their customer. Please ask him again and let a member of the moderating/admin team know if you have further problems with this member. We are happy to assist in any way we can.

I read this on Facebook this morning, horrible thing to happen As far as I am concerned, it is the sellers responsibility to pursue the Insurance Claim through DPD and get what money they can back, but the entire amount should be refunded to you. It is their responsibility to get the bass to you, and incidents such as this cannot mean you are out of pocket, unless you explicitly agreed with the seller pre-sale that all responsibility of shipping lies with you, which I doubt you did! I do feel awfully sorry for the seller but I hope they do what's right for you. I also feel sorry for you as a lovely Warwick has gone Hopefully one of you has a note of the serial number? Get that posted up. The bass is unusual in that it has an ebony fingerboard with no inlays; I have a hunch it started life as a fretless and was fretted at some point, but if that isn't true then it is quite a rare combo indeed; fretted SSII's have wenge fingerboards and the inlays. In other words, if another comes up like it it will stand out to me and other Warwick aficionados like a sore thumb. Get it shared on the Warwick forum too if you haven't already.