Kev

It's Fender product so quality control varies wildly. Some people have owned MIM's that sound better than the MIA's; the only MIM i have tried had build quality and playability to match a Squier Affinity.... Try before you buy and that should tell you everything you need to know, an a hell of a lot more than anyone can tell you on here

[quote name='sammy-bikes' post='1180241' date='Mar 28 2011, 11:10 PM']thanks, im watching a few on ebay to see how they turn out, why is the market so bad for second hand warwicks then? is it worth hanging on for a while longer or will it continue losing value?[/quote] Hmmm, difficult to say. Will be interesting to see if the middle east Warwick range that is beginning to take over their production will drive the german 'wick values up...

they have been selling recently between £400 and £600, worth alot more of course but for whatever mad reasons Warwick's are still selling for silly money.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' post='1175451' date='Mar 25 2011, 12:17 AM']I want a 1x12 cab but there appears to be some confusion as to whether amps/cabs are included? Plus the missus will kill me![/quote] Under the scheme AFAIK they are not, however some shops do allow it.

[quote name='4 candles' post='1175219' date='Mar 24 2011, 08:57 PM']some advice. If you cant afford it now. then you cant afford it. advice 2. out of debt, out of danger advice 3. never a beggar or borrower be advice 4. a great bass player can make a cv squire sound better than a poor player with an Alembic Just my 2 pennies worth Regards Mark[/quote] Couldn't disagree with you more. I bought a £900 bass on the take it away scheme, now fully paid off and i sold it to buy my dream bass. There is no way i would have been able to do that had i not entered into that scheme,.

[quote name='Clarky' post='1174005' date='Mar 23 2011, 10:32 PM']Sue Ryder P-bass[/quote]

The bolt-on Thumbs were originally Ovangkol (early examples were walnut) however Warwick have recently changed that to Bubinga instead, and have reintroduced the Ovangkol model as a korean version to go alongside the corvette standards. Prior to this Bubinga BO's were not stock instruments. As far as i know the new Bubinga BO is replacing the german Ovangkol BO(Woo!). Be interesting to see the street price of the Korean thumb...

I don't think there is much arguement that Warwick basses second hand are the best value for money at the moment, the way the market is. On the same token, i would recommend you do NOT buy one brand new! Try before you buy. For your budget you can afford to get an older late eighties/early nineties handcrafted Warwick, which some prefer due to the neck profile and woods used (Wenge rather than the cheaper Ovangkol) amongst other things.

I wonder how many of the 'Hate it' crowd are any good at it....

iv sweeped about 80mb from mine

His Too Young To Die tone is one of my fave tones. As already said, an old streamer stage 1, trace elliot amps and 6000 metric arseloads of compression might help you on the way, but the tone is all in his fingers.

This is just awesome, i LOVE it!

[quote name='silddx' post='1147899' date='Mar 2 2011, 11:51 PM']In my time on Basschat no-one, to my knowledge, knows more about Warwicks that warwickhunt. Along with him I am a great fan of Warwicks. Hear what he says and take note. A decent 90% 74 Jazz in decent condition will fetch about twice the current value of that Thumb. Even though the Thumb is ten times the bass.[/quote] Corrected that for you If you don't like Warwicks then don't bother with that deal, the Fender deal could easily fall through. I paid £1k for mine last month and couldn't be happier! Personally i wouldn't pay £200 for an old Fender