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Why you should never defret a wenge neck Warwick


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  • 4 weeks later...

'Quell surprise'... it's back again and the seller is warning others of some nasty buyer who either didn't pay or returned the item; can't understand why!

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Warwick-Corvette-FNA-Jazzman-fretless-bass_W0QQitemZ270386840742QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item270386840742&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2|65%3A10|39%3A1|240%3A1318|301%3A1|293%3A1|294%3A50"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Warwick-Corvette-FNA...93%3A1|294%3A50[/url]

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I've asked a question, see what s/he comes back with ..

Hello mate,

Probably unwelcome, but some friendly advice from a fellow W lover may be needed if you want to shift this.

Get it professionally refretted, the Bass Gallery in Camden would do it for around a ton twenty. [url="http://www.thebassgallery.com/workshop.html"]http://www.thebassgallery.com/workshop.html[/url]

The market is much bigger for fretted basses, and that is the worst defret job I think I've seen.

Sorry if this is not what you want to hear and I hope you take this in the spirit in which it's intended.

Good luck.
Cheers.

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To be fair to the guy, he's put enough clear pictures up for anyone who knows what they're looking at to make a fairly good judgement of the quality of the de-fret, and his BIN price is lower than what a fretted FNA of the same condition would probably go for - I'm not defending that de-fret job though :)

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[quote name='benwhiteuk' post='484191' date='May 10 2009, 09:56 AM']To be fair to the guy, he's put enough clear pictures up for anyone who knows what they're looking at to make a fairly good judgement of the quality of the de-fret, and his BIN price is lower than what a fretted FNA of the same condition would probably go for - I'm not defending that de-fret job though :)[/quote]

I was outbid at the last second on a mint FNA fretless a month ago, went for £395.

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I saw an FNA corvette go for £276 a while back and a mint Proline recently went for £410. Also a really nice Fortress went for £390 the other week.

Personally i wouldn't pay over £250 for this, but then i am tight as a nun's proverbial.

Also he describes the de-fret as "a fairly professional job as far as i can tell"

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What he failed to add after "a fairly professional job as far as i can tell" was "assuming it was done by a insane chimp with uncontrollable muscle spasms and hand-eye coordination problems, using a selection of blunt kitchen utensils".

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[quote name='silddx' post='484982' date='May 11 2009, 12:28 PM']I was outbid at the last second on a mint FNA fretless a month ago, went for £395.[/quote]
[quote name='lemmywinks' post='485006' date='May 11 2009, 12:51 PM']I saw an FNA corvette go for £276 a while back...[/quote]

The Warwick market really is f***ed then...

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