Silvia Bluejay

LOL @ the 'mojo' Yes, the bigger groove can be felt with your fingertip. The other, lighter grooves are much less deep. I'm waiting to see what options Thomann offer me. Thank you guys for your replies so far.

I've emailed Thomann through my Customer Page. I thought I'd better do so immediately, so that they can't think I scratched it myself while playing it. Waiting to see what they reply.

I have just received my new fretless Rockbass from Thomann and found a scratch on it. The lighting in the photo makes it look worse than it is, but still... What would you wise BC folk advise me to do? Return it? Is there any way I can try and fix the scratch by myself (furniture polish or something else)? Thank you!

I wish I could help, but it's too late for me. The flesh is weak and the spirit was even weaker...

I get that, hence my question in the first place: since Warwick's lefty basses are usually in stock and ready to be shipped immediately from most retailers, that must mean the company manufactures enough of them regardless of the actual demand from the likes of you and me. There must be some redundancy built in the system, the cost of which appears to be borne by Warwick and not by us. On the other hand, I'm sure their lefty stock's ready availability and equal price has given them a big share of the left-handed market, and made the effort worthwhile.

The L/H version is around £200 more expensive than the R/H one, both for sale at Thomann. I guess that's fair enough, but I'm still wondering how Warwick are able to sell L/H models for exactly the same price as R/H ones. Well done to them, in any case.

Well, I'm not a luthier but I did fiddle with the nut height on my 5 - as well as fiddling with anything else I could adjust on it! - and succeded in making the bass feel slighlty easier to play for my tiny little hands. (Before you ask, intonation and the general sound are still fine despite the slight change in setup - I'm cautious enough not to make a mess when I touch my instruments).

[quote name='kerley' timestamp='1326211167' post='1493856'] I pretty much always lower the strings at nut as find most guitars and basses to be much higher than optimum. I have always wondered why anyone would actually want a high nut as a perfect nut clearly brings down string height and especially makes fretting at the first couple of frets a much better experience. [/quote] Exactly. I'm surprised how many basses don't have the hex socket screw system adopted by Warwick in the nut as well.

Ahhh, Robin, someone please save me (or lock me up without internet access or a credit card)! Thomann have also confirmed they DO have a left-handed version of the other baby I'm lusting after: [url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/ns_design_nxt_5_bass_lh_bs.htm"]http://www.thomann.de/gb/ns_design_nxt_5_bass_lh_bs.htm[/url] Bank account doesn't allow that though... yet.

This one: [url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/warwick_rb_corvette_basic_5fllh_bks.htm"]http://www.thomann.d...c_5fllh_bks.htm[/url] Should be all right. I've got a 4 in natural and a 5 in dark blue, so was missing a black one Ordered yesterday late afternoon, shipped this morning via DHL.

I just thought it was too good a deal to pass. I'm sure I'll be hooked on it as I've been on all the others so far!

Indeed...

Too late! I've ordered one!!!

Grrr, stop that guys, I'm soo close to waving my credit card at Thomann... Also because I could get that set of flatwounds for the other 5-stringer at the same time... Oh. My. God....

Yes but... where's the saving in that then?

I would be tempted to get a 5, just for the sake of GAS, if they weren't fretless. Pity.

PS I've had a quick look - the really cheap ones appear to be fretless models only. If that rocks your boat, go for it.

I've got two of them already, so don't need any more. But they're good for their price. Are they 2010 models? I remember somebody telling me that Warwick had to reject practically the whole shipment of Rockbasses (from China) becasue they simply weren't up to the required minimum standard of quality.

There is something in the DB that gets you totally hooked as soon as you play your first notes on it. Part of that may be thanks to us already being familiar with bass playing when we approach a DB - as opposed to absolute beginners when we start on the electric for the very first time - and therefore finding it easier than we thought. But there's got to be something else... the awesome sound, the need for your musical ear to be at its most sensitive, the opportunity to become lost in your world while you strive to keep the best intonation... and more. Well done both of you guys for gigging with your uprights.

Welcome, Hari!

I have Warwicks, and the nut height is adjustable through a screw at each end of the nut. It's not a black art, but I suppose it's down to personal preference, and should be adjusted together with the string height you set at the bridge. These two settings together will influence string action even before you touch the truss rod.

I'm a late starter as a musician, and so far I've only played along to records at home. It's more of a therapeutic effect than any degree of ambition, but I do practise and strive to improve etc. I always say that, if I could go back in time to when I was a teenager, I would re-live my life, for good and for bad, without any changes, except for one - I would start studying music and playing an instrument at an early age. I'm in W4. Do you play in West London? Last month I went to see Basschat's very own Happy Jack and MacDaddy with their band The Junkyard Dogs at the George in Chiswick High Road, and a jolly good evening it was. It's great to meet new musician friends this way.

Thomann can deliver to a neighbour if you instruct the courier so at the time of your purchase.

LOL @ your mention of 'actual guitarists' - I think that actual bassists can be actual guitarists as well (although I'm not one of them).

And also, a single thread would soon become unwieldy, and need to be split up into several others, or continued separately, I suppose (that's my experience on other forums).