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I have no idea, the Warwick website doesn't state how long the warranty is, however, the card has all the specs of the bass (body and neck material, pickup and preamp information etc), and is useful for establishing the authenticity of the bass as it ties to the serial number.

My 2004 Warwick Thumb 5 Bolt On which I bought used came with the wrong warranty card. Warwick were able to send me a new correct one (for 30 euro), but I am left with a warranty card which belongs to someone else's bass. So if you own a circa 2004 fretless FNA Jazzman 4 string with a flamed maple top and ash body, PM me and if your serial number matches the one I have on the card I'll happily post you it out free of charge.

Dunlop Lemon Oil for the fretboard (wipe off the excess when you're done), and Dunlop Formula 65 guitar polish, which is nitro safe. Incidentally, Hercules stands are also nitro safe. Linseed oil works, but leaves more of a residue than lemon oil (which is basically high grade mineral oil). The main thing to avoid is solvents, as nitro doesn't chemically harden, it just dries out.

I don't know how they would sound in a bass amp, but for guitar amps JJ EL84's are the only modern production ones worth talking about. For preamp if you're planning on keeping the amp for a while I'd go NOS with something like a Mazda or Brimar. Don't cost that much, sound much better than anything current production and last for literally decades.

Looks lovely, and definitely seems more practical than the usual Ric's. The intonation issues on Ric's are almost always due to people not knowing how to set them up. They need to have basically no neck relief and they intonate perfectly well.

The prices are very cheap (£600 for a Stingray, '77 Jazz bass for £850), but I would imagine that getting them out of the country would be a challenge.

Yes, they're cathode biased so you can change the valves without biasing. It's not actually true class a, just very hot class ab. The Lionheart range are the only amps they make that could be described as true class a. To be honest, even in a fixed biased class ab, biasing is less of an issue than you think, it's unlikely to damage the amp in any way unless you run something that's way out of range like a kt77 in an el34 amp.

As Westwood has said, it sounds like a preamp valve problem. Check with Thomann, as their warranty probably doesn't cover valve faults, but if you bought it very recently they might send out a couple of preamp valves for free. If that doesn't work then it needs repaired under warranty.

He told me 8 other people had contacted him after I did. It had only been listed for about 30 minutes, I almost hesitated due to my general rule of selling the old before I buy anything new, but figured it would be gone if I didn't move quick. I have to say I'm loving it, and I can confirm that Febreeze works wonders for getting tobacco smoke smell out of bass amp carpet covering. Interpol52, if you happen to want a Warwick bass amp, I know someone who is selling one

I didn't realise that! I saw the II and presumed it was the same as the LMII. Much quieter in terms of hiss now the tweeter isn't connected. It would be nice if it was switchable though as in a live situation you might like a little more treble response than just the speaker gives you and the hiss would be less troublesome

I'm very pleased with it, got a chance to wind it up properly today. I can't believe an amp so small and light can sound so good and produce so much volume and bottom end. The tweeter is very hissy though and TBH I'm not a huge fan of tweeters on bass amps, so I've disconnected it as per other threads on this forum. Gumtree has had quite a few bargains recently, I now have picked up a hardly used Warwick Thumb Bolt On 5er and a mint Markbass CMD121p for a grand total of £770 Obligatory rubbish mobile phone photos:

Picked up a mint condition Markbass CMD121P mk2 today for the bargain price of £270. The guy selling was great to deal with and the amp sounds awesome (although having worked late this evening I haven't got to properly turn it up yet). I think I got a pretty good deal, now I just have to sell my old Warwick Sweet 25.1 as per my self imposed "one in one out" policy..

The only modern production el84s worth talking about are JJ. Gold lion are nice as well but twice the price and I prefer the cleans on the JJs. For 12ax7s you can take your pick. I tend not to like the 9th generation Chinese ones, in fact, I would recommend getting some reasonably priced old stock ones, Brimar and Mazda sound very nice and won't cost the earth. They last ages and ages too. You can still pick up slightly used old stock Mullards for fairly reasonable money if you keep an eye out. I find the 9th gen Chinese valves woolly sounding, most modern production tung-sol 12ax7s are unacceptably noisy, ehx are fine but bland, some of the higher grade sovteks are pretty good (the ones TAD market as Hi-grade). The sovtek LPS 12ax7 gets good reviews but the long plate makes it prone to microphony in combo amps.

Does the corvette have active pickups or passive ones? I believe quite a number of the corvettes have passive pickups and an active EQ which would probably sound quite different anyway and might also mean that if you changed the pickups you'd need to change the EQ anyway

[quote name='jassbass' timestamp='1415739398' post='2603345'] I had a thumb 5er,it was punchy but very small string spacing and had neck dive.i was a little disappointed. [/quote] String spacing is 17-18mm I think, a little on the narrow side although I find it OK. The neck through has a broadneck option I think. Neck dive can be an issue on the bolt on neck 5ers I've heard, although with a decent strap I've not had any problems so far. I'd love to try a broadneck neck through thumb 5er or a streamer stage 1 though.