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I was looking for one of my old basses and I found that sale thread!

Cheers, anyone wanting the SuperJazz sound but don't want the typical 'F*nder' look, then this is the boyo! I've owned my fair share of Jazz style basse inc' a Dingwall fan fret and a brace of Sadowskys (inc USA) but in terms of tone this has beaten them all. Last clear out was 12 years ago... let's hope it's 12 years till my next one.

Unsurprisingly it can do 'Jazz' but in that juiced up Jazz way of Sadowsky basses. I'll need to research these pups as I don't think they are simple single coil units. The reason I say that is that the neck pup solo has a lot more meat to it, almost as if it is split-coil 'P' bass vibe!

This is a USA made from the early 2000's. Ash body, Maple cap, Maple neck and Rosewood fingerboard with lovely MoP dot inlays. Frets are like new. Jazz style pups with active / passive switch. Vol Vol Tone controls... so all very Jazz like! Bridge and machineheads have a matt/satin finish. No damage whatsoever and I can't detect a ding or dink anywhere. Complete with original case (mint condition not a mark on it), tools and case candy. You'd be hard pushed to tell this from new and unlikely to find another in this good a condition.

TBH I can see my other amps selling and oddly the one that I thought would get snapped up first (certainly for the money), is going to be my back-up amp!

Just to be clear - the truss rod cover is a genuine Warwick factory item NOT an off the shelf add on and YES it is 'genuinely' less than 9lb in weight; I'll add a picture of it on the scales.

I thought I'd put in a picture of the bass on scales... I hadn't (thanks for reminding me folks)! The bass is 9lb 15oz

Pleasantly surprised that as many people hold the LX basses in as high esteem as the way more expensive NT models!

Ah but I was born younger!

On hold pending!

I coveted them when I was younger... and older!

Cheers Andy. If it hadn't been usurped by a full valve amp, it'd be going nowhere!

You can't tell but the outer bands of maple are the same flame but they are cut at a different angle (aid stability in the wood I suppose) and the flame is on the side not the back. anzoid - in a year or two... stranger things have happened.

That time of the decade for me to have a clear out. 2007 Special Edition UK. Swamp Ash body, Koa top (flamed) with matching headstock facing. 3 piece Maple thru neck (centre section flame maple) with a volute; maple fingerboard. MEC $$ pups and pre. Pups can be individually switched series/parallel/single-coil. No neck break, no truss rod faults, no electrical issues; there is one small ding at the end of the fingerboard but otherwise no dings, dinks or bucklerash. JAN III nut so no broken tabs on this. Weight: 8lb (digital scales) Comes with a Warwick gig bag or can upgrade for delivery to a Hiscox hard case for +£30 I might be interested in trade for a Zon USA bass.

If I was absolutely honest... refinishing it would spoil it and I'd defo leave it as is!

I have very few things that I've not tried before or would want... worth asking via PM

It's technically neither a Stage I or II bass and pretty unique in the Warwick range due to the construction and pup choice. Bartolini Soap Bar pups matched to an MEC preamp... a LOT of headroom with this pup/pre set up. Birds Eye Maple body, centre joined with walnut slice with more Birds Eye Maple on the reverse... essentially an all Birds Eye Maple body which accounts for the weight and tone. 3 piece Maple neck with an Ebony fingerboard. Condition is generally very good but it does have player wear as in discolouration. No cracks or major dings and no truss rod/neck problems. Some of the hardware was badly tarnished and has been replaced (inc whole bridge which is not cheap). Comes with a Warwick gig bag or can upgrade for delivery to a Hiscox hard case for +£30 I might be interested in trade for a Zon USA bass.

Warwick Thumb 1985 'JD' bass That time of the decade for me to have a clear out. I've cribbed some of Luke's info re. this bass (it was previously for sale on here and I did a deal with a Sadowsky for this) It's a pretty much all original 1985 JD Thumb bass, one of the first 150 ever made. This is the second revision with the classic body shape, with the early shorter horn. Back in the days when Warwick was all about small scale handbuilt production. Why only pretty much all original? The german session musician that Luke bought it from had it refretted with period correct steel frets (back in 85 these didn't have the bronze alloy frets). It's got that thin, skinny neck common of this era. Weight is 8lb 15oz... under that elusive 9lb mark! It doesn't state JD on the truss rod cover but back then all Thumb basses were "JD". The truss rod cover is quite special - it's made of solid Mother of Pearl! According to an email conversation with HP Wilfer of Warwick this was quite an expensive feature and used in the early days to designate any "custom shop" models built to a particular spec. In this case the active SD active pickups and the brass saddles on a black bridge are slightly different to what you would expect. Luke asked and he couldn't remember who it would have been built for. You won't find many Warwicks with one of these truss rod covers. Jack Bruce had one on his 1985 fretless. Plays great, and has a nice low action all down the 26 frets, it sounds great with the classic thumb bass sound (piano like?) but comparing it to some later thumbs which had more of a middy compressed tone this is slightly more open sounding with a big fat bottom end. Apart from a small chip to the corner of the truss rod cover it's in great condition for a 35 year old bass, actually it would probably be in a pretty good condition for a 3 year old bass. Comes in a Bass Centre branded '90's Warwick gig bag in usable condition but with the cable pocket zip broken. If it needs to be posted could add a generic hard case for an extra £20.

Fender Precision (MiM) That time of the decade for me to have a clear out. I have no idea of the age of this bass but it isn't one of the roadworn series, however I believe that the vol/tone controls are either proper vintage jobbies or possibly off a roadworn bass. Body / paintwork is in good condition with a small ding/chip though the paint above the strap button. Typical P width neck but not a big handful. Hardware is all in good condition. Just over 8lb 12oz in weight. Bass presently sports an anodized scratch plate but will come supplied with an additional tortie plate that was original to the bass. Comes with a Fender gigbag Extras - can swap gigbag to a Generic case for £20.

Warwick Streamer LX bolt-on - 1997 That time of the decade for me to have a clear out. Solid 2 piece centre jointed Maple body with wenge neck and wenge fingerboard. Body is in fair condition for 23 years old; a few scrapes, light rash and dings but nothing structural at all, all cosmetic. Not a baseball bat neck, in fact quite slim with a headstock volute for strength. Hardware has minimal tarnishing from 23 years of use. Just over 9lb 2oz in weight. MEC pups and pre, all original inc brass JAN I nut (none of those silly plastic jobbies here). No neck break, no truss rod faults, no electrical issues. Comes with a Warwick gigbag Extras - can swap gigbag to a Generic hard case for £20 extra or a Hiscox case for £40.

Warwick Streamer Stage I (SSI) - 1990 That time of the decade for me to have a clear out. Lightly flamed solid Maple body and neck with a wenge fingerboard. Body is in good condition for 30 years old; a small ding to the underside of the bottom horn (visible in the last pic) and the usual grubby thumb mark above the pups from use/resting. Slim neck with abalone dot inlays. Hardware has the usual bit of tarnishing from 30 years of use. Just over 9lb 2oz in weight. MEC pups and pre, all original inc JAN I. No neck break, no truss rod faults, no electrical issues. The bass would benefit from a good clean possibly a rub down and waxing but only because it is a well gigged and loved bass; if you want a uber-clean bass I can do that work at extra cost. Comes with a Warwick gigbag Extras - can swap gigbag to a Hiscox case for £30. Will strip, sand and wax the bass for £150.

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I 'really' didn't think I'd ever part with this or be without a Thunderfunk (used them for almost 10 years) but I now use one of those new fangled full valve amps from Poland, so this needs to go to a new home. Comes complete with a shallow Boschma flightcase; please note that this has a slide out perspex cover which I've modified to fir over the DI output pot and as such I've removed the rubber knob. If you want to you could cut a wider slot in the perspex to accommodate the knob being fitted... I haven't bothered. This is not a heavy amp for what it is and does, easy one handed lift. Don't need any amps or cabs but vintage Warwick are always tempting! Thunderfunk Bass Amps are the direct descendants of the amp that Jaco Pastorius loved, the legendary AMP BH-420, improved, and handmade in the U.S.A. by Dave Funk. Quieter than other amps, with TWO great sounding DI's, it's perfect for Studio or TV use. The Thunderfunk's tone is achieved by using high quality film caps in the preamp's signal chain... just like a high quality mixing board. Twenty-five times more expensive than electrolytics used in other amps, film cap's tighter tolerances maintain phase coherence through the amp, producing a focused punch unlike any other amp. Add two to three times the filter caps of other amps, you get a round, focused bottom that doesn't roll around the stage but instead projects into the room. Dynamic range is a function of power, transient response, and quiet. Thunderfunk purposely doesn't use toroid transformers as they've found they don't sound as good as the old-fashioned "EI" iron. And to reduce hum, they add a "hum-bucking" wire across the transformer to inject hum into the preamp's ground cancelling the radiated hum achieving an amp quieter than an equivalent toroid powered amp. With their unique "SS/Tube Switch" you'll be able to choose from a super clean solid-state tone for slap and double bass playing, to a gutty, warm, tube-tone for all the rest. 750-watts RMS into 4 Ohms "The Switch" with indicator LEDs New Mute Switch with indicator LED Limiter Aural Enhancer 4-Band Parametric Equalizer Timbre Control Headphone Jack/Line Out Line In New Pre-EQ Balanced DI Output Post-EQ Balanced Output w/Level Control Ground Lift Switch for both XLR's Out 40,800uF Supply Filter for Deep Response and Increased Mids Clarity AC Signal Coupled to Reduce Input Pops Pre-EQ Effects Loop Post-EQ Effects Loop Jacks by Switchcraft and ADC (of Minnesota) 2-1/4 in. speaker outputs 2-Speakon outputs +1/-1 Aluminum Chassis Weighs only 17 pounds Time Delayed Turn On Quiet AC Power Switching 100/120/220/240v operation Quiet and reliable Auto-Fan with Backlite!

I owned one of these back when they were new and just released, I bought this particular amp off a fellow BCer as a back-up and out of nostalgia. It's as good as I remember but seeing as how I've now got 4 amps... I don't need 3 back-ups! The amp had a new power switch and service done when I bought it. Lots of info on the internet re. these professional level amps. Please don't confuse this with the Basskick series, these are a step above and really are the mutts nuts. No class D power ratings just old school transformers and bags of power/volume... though you can practice in silence through the headphone output. 600w (RMS) into 4 ohms though it will operate at 2 ohms with 1.000 watt. Features a dual-channel tube-driven preamp, with a Varimetric EQ and a notch filter which is useful if plugging in an acoustic bass and you want to dial out unwanted resonances. DI is transformer balanced with ground lift switch. MIDI optional MSM-1 - you can buy a plug and go midi module from H&K that gives access to a wealth of options. Effects Loop serial Footswitch/Stageboard Stageboard; switching Functions EQ on/off, A, B input (not included) I really don't want to run the risk of damage in transit, so collection or sensible meet up point is the way forward (NE England). Sorry I really don't need any gear as a trade. .