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warwickhunt

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  1. Excellent fella, top communications and paid promptly as promised. Have no fears when dealing with Norris. Enjoy the Ric.
  2. Not one that I have ever seen before... and I've seen lots! Could it be home/custom made?
  3. [quote name='Shobaleader One' timestamp='1368213096' post='2074625'] Still chewing those fingers... [/quote] While you are waiting/saving, go buy the Hipshot Drop-tuner that fits Dingwall basses which is advertised on here!
  4. Is it Sadowsky, Lull or AC shaped?
  5. [quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1367841602' post='2070049'] not tempted to ask him? just for the craic? [/quote] Yep, done and 'it needs setting up'! You pays your money...
  6. [quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1367838681' post='2069992'] The only access point to the truss rod I can see on mine is the one in the headstock. It has a though neck, so it's not like you take the neck off and access it that way. So I'd be interested to know how you get to it. [/quote] The early Warwicks had a truss rod that could be removed by slackening/straightening the truss rod/neck and then inverting the bass or pulling the rod with a suitable tool, the rod slid out and could be reversed/replaced.
  7. Damn! Been looking for a higher powered 1U amp and this was on my list!
  8. [quote name='molan' timestamp='1367755900' post='2069060'] So is it worth £800? Seems a decent price for one of these? [/quote] TBH the value is (as always) what someone will pay... I'd not give £800 for it but I would for a nice early one. I think saying that it is worth £600 more after a set-up is ludicrous and as has been pointed out if he is flagging up that it needs setting up, I'd want to know why it isn't done? Truss rod might be a concern (not as common as folks think) and it'll not have the easy remove truss rod but if it isn't an easy fix (again 'why' hasn't he done it) to set it up, you could be looking at a pig of a bass to resell... unless you moved it on and told the next potential owner it just needed a set-up!
  9. Have this set-up and it'll be worth £600 more... so get it done you lazy bar-steward and see if you are right! [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Warwick-Streamer-Stage-1-Bass-Guitar-/140970151010?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item20d279cc62"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Warwick-Streamer-Stage-1-Bass-Guitar-/140970151010?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item20d279cc62[/url]
  10. [quote name='Stag' timestamp='1367527799' post='2066614'] Wish I was closer! Doh... someone should pick this up... nearly half the price of a new one, and without the potential wait! [/quote] Cheers. If there is no further interest in this bass then I'm going to put it into a local music shop (who will add their bit on top).
  11. So the fact that this bass HAS a forearm contour gives you gip and a 4003 which is slab fronted doesn't give you grief... the very opposite to my experience of Ric's!
  12. You don't need/want a Ric 4003 do you?
  13. In light of the other Ric's available... reduced to £1000
  14. [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]So have you shifted that SWR yet or do you want to pay by instalments?[/font][/color]
  15. [quote name='martthebass' timestamp='1367175260' post='2062208'] It doesn't look refinned to me John, just paint settling - my recently departed US made Jazz was pretty much like this. I'm not an expert on Ricks, but both that I've had, had non conventional finishes. I don't know if it's part of what makes up the UV cured paint on the newer ones but on dark finishes they sempt to have a haze to the gloss - subtle but definitely present. [/quote] That's the odd thing, I've had conflicting messages from folks re. the finish on Rics including a local Ric owner who has an similar aged bass that has identical finishing (including some of his binding coming away ) and he has had his from new also. I just want to be safe/honest and if someone strips the bass and finds that it was maple/fireglo or whatever, then I haven't lead them up the garden path. Still cheap enough I think that someone will either get a gigging Ric just as it is or it'll be cheap enough to have it refinished.
  16. Interesting. If I thought that the bass needed a refinish, I'd suggest it but TBH the bass will polish/buff up nicely, it's a bit flat/lacklustre where the original owner rested his thumb over the neck pup position and upper horn but otherwise is in good nick. I should mention that the biggest conundrum is that the bass has only had one previous owner and he is a friend and assures me that he hasn't refinished the bass and that the bass was a deeper/flatter/glossier black when he got it but the finish has settled like this over the years.
  17. Well done to you for having the bottle to go for it; now just chalk that one down to experience and move on. I genuinely believe that even the worst rehearsals/auditions teach us something (if it doesn't you won't be on the music scene very long ) and nothing moves your playing on quicker than the thought that you don't want another of 'those' auditions again.
  18. [quote name='charic' timestamp='1367165800' post='2061998'] I've got one of these, had it the best part of 10 years and it still looks new. Buy with confidence [/quote] I've probably had this for about ten years myself but it has only ever been used by me to transport the bass on two house moves in that time; I've used either an SKB hardcase or a Sadowsky semi-rigid case to transport my bass around!
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