Warwick - Give me the good, the bad and the ugly.

[Linus27]

Shameless request to say, if anyone has a Warwick Corvette Standard in Bubinga that they want to sell, then please let me know. Active or passive is fine but has to be 4 string, fretless and Bubinga.

[Jigster]

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='960395' date='Sep 18 2010, 02:07 PM']This talk of truss rod problems; it stems from a few of the earlier basses and as has been pointed out, it's likely as much to do with ham-fisted adjustment as it is too do with anything else. I have to say that I've owned dozens (and I mean 'dozens') of Warwick basses and I've NEVER had an issue with a rod. I did have one rod that someone had been using the incorrect size allen key to adjust and it was a bit chewed but that was easily sorted. The other thing is that 99.9% of the problems with a Warwick truss rod are an easy and relatively inexpensive fix (the truss rods are removable without recourse to taking off fingerboards etc.). However, their is one BC owner who had a problem with his TR and unluckily for him the rod wouldn't tap out so his luthier did need to do a major bit of work to get it out. Saying that there probably isn't a large scale manufacturer out there that hasn't had some kind of issue with some aspect of their bass but things can end up being blown out of proportion.

I personally have no problem or worry with Warwick TRs but if I couldn't try one in the flesh before buying I'd reckon on worst case scenario maybe £75 to fix any problem... then again I'd only be buying an old model anyway not one of the new ones! [/quote]

thanks for clearing that up - very helpful and re-assuring.

[LukeFRC]

[quote name='Truckstop' post='960386' date='Sep 18 2010, 01:59 PM']Stick an extra two strings on it and i'll have it!

Truckstop[/quote]

*eyes up roll of masking tape and some old strings*

easy done!

[funkgod]

[quote name='Linus27' post='960397' date='Sep 18 2010, 02:13 PM']Shameless request to say, if anyone has a Warwick Corvette Standard in Bubinga that they want to sell, then please let me know. Active or passive is fine but has to be 4 string, fretless and Bubinga.[/quote]

No sorry but i do have a 1st year of production ( i think!) BO Mar 93, wenge necked Thumb bass for sale, if anyone is intrested i can put it in the forsale section.