Vasquez Rich
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I have a '93 Fortress, one of the first they brought into the UK (see my pic left), with a few extra little body scallops on etc.. it's been my favourite bass since the day I bought it. I do like the Streamers though and my back up is a (Korean) Spector NS2A from 1988... the Spectors and the Steamers are almost identical in body shape I have found. The neck on mine is fat and made of un varnished Wenge, as is the fingerboard. To be honest I find it a little disconcerting now to play a bass without that open grained feel to the neck. In short, yes, if I was in the market for another bass then Id be looking at a Steamer, I've always wanted a red high gloss finish one, neck through they are lovely basses. Richard
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'90 Warwick Streamer Stage I 4 string
Vasquez Rich replied to warwickhunt's topic in Basses For Sale
Always wanted a reddish streamer.. it'd go with my burgundy Fortress, if only I had the cash... lovely bass. Richard -
Double poo! that would've been a nice present to me for birthday thing... Lovely looking bit of wood. Richard -
That's a +3 for the HA3500. Traded my HA2000 up for a HA3500 and coupled it with the awesomly brilliant 410XL cabinet (although the cab weighs a serious 42kg!!) try lugging that up the back steps of The Grapes (Sheffield)... best amp/cab set up I ever had though, beefy as hell, I don't recall playing anywhere where I had to have it turned up much beyond 3 or 4. Richard
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Saw a man last night with a bass clef tattoo'd on his neck, underneath his right ear! Is that going a bit too far? Richard
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[quote name='edstraker123' post='336000' date='Nov 25 2008, 07:42 AM']No problem Rich - Hope it wasn't something of the missus's choosing ! [/quote] No, but I know what you mean. There's a serious shortage of decent rehearsal rooms round here, so me and the band, and the guys from another band who've been good friends of mine for 5 years or so, are working out to lease an industrial unit and turn it into something where we can play and record whenever we like (and rent out to some other friendly bands at very reasonable rates)... gonna take some cash to build to rooms/studio, and that's where it's all going. Richard -
Ed, Would love to have it but have to put my money into something else soon (not a bass that is). Sorry. Richard
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Interesting... my Warwick has neck width at nut 38mm (vs 44mm) neck width at 12th 55mm (vs 58mm) across the 4 strings is 59mm at the bridge so not a lot different really at this end. I consider my Warwick to be well spaced and suited to my sausage fingers, your Shuker seems even wider spaced overall, certainly as you get towards the nut. Still talking to the financial advisor... Richard
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Actually am quite interested in this bass... will have to talk to my Mrs though Yes, string spacing at bridge (I usually play finger style by the bridge pickups).. neck at nut and at 12th would be brilliant. Remind me how much you want for it? Richard
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Could you send me some details of the string spacing, neck widths etc.. my hands are quite large (I can span 9" between thumb and pinky).. that's one of the reasons I love my Warwick. Thanks, Richard
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Been looking at these on the Shuker website for some weeks now... this would be the one I would be after too, thru neck, 4 string... do you know how the neck would be compared to my (quite chunky) Warwick Wenge neck? Richard
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[quote name='Buzz' post='300757' date='Oct 6 2008, 07:42 PM']Isn't 4.7kohm a bit low for a p-pup on a fender? I thought it was around 8ish.[/quote] Err... might have been 7.4... will go test them again. Richard
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I'm not going to take the neck off, it's not so bad as I can't lift the bridge saddles a bit to stop any buzz. If it was mine then maybe, as I like the action better, but not somebody elses. I think maybe the issue for me personally is that I want to set it up like my Warwick is. I will put it all back together and set it up, new strings, set intonation etc etc and see how the owner thinks it is. Thanks, Richard
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Err.. yes. I took them off, undid all the wiring as it ddn't look right compared to a diagram I got from the Fender forum site (I think)... anyway, I redid it the way on that diagram. Put it all back together for a test and the pickups work fine, vol & tone work fine, jack works fine... I can't really see what the problem was unless it was an issue of the wiring not being correct. Richard
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Thanks for all the above guys. I think I will try to move it without detaching the neck, I have the bass striped down anyway. It has a full scratchplate so I did wonder about cutting a small notch in the body where the neck starts so that I could get a decent screwdriver to it, the scratchplate would hide it nicely. If it was my bass I'd probably do this, as it's not then I will have to go carefully. Thanks again, Richard