Geddys nose Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Warwick-Custom-Bass-Vampyre-NT-Rare-/260757406306?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item3cb65a4262"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Warwick-Custom-Bass-...=item3cb65a4262[/url] Great Price for this, looks like a Ltd Edition but can't mach it up to one perhaps a custom , Defo not a Vampyre NT though ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pumkinkin Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Defo not an NT though ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemmywinks Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Nice, the neck-through stripe look weird on a BO bass though. Good price anyways, not something you see everyday. Corvettes look really strange in those Fender-shaped cases too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mart Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 (edited) That's the rare "Streamette". Like a Corvette in shape, but instead of the usual slab body they're contoured like a Streamer. Nobody seems to quite know the history of these things: there's a story that Warwick made some neck-through Corvettes with contours and then cut the necks off, but this story is generally discredited - firstly because the strip is too narrow for this and secondly because why would they cut necks off perfectly good basses? The Warwick serial number tool always says that these are Vampyres - which just shows the limitations of an automatic look-up tool, even if it is officially endorsed by the manufacturer. Even German companies fail to keep complete records of their productions! It looks like a pretty good price. Edited March 23, 2011 by mart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warwickhunt Posted March 25, 2011 Share Posted March 25, 2011 How come I go away from the PC for 5 days and stuff like this goes by! Had one of these and has been said it's often referred to as a 'Streamette' and as Mart stated they are not as urban myth would have you believe, the earlier 91 Ltd Ed 'Infinettes' with the necks chopped off (among other things for the reasons that Mart outlined). The numbers of this bass vary depending upon who you listen to (if it is a seller you are listening to there are only 20 in the world... ) but seeing as how I've owned 2 and seen a dozen or more for sale I don't think that there are as few as people say! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mart Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 [quote name='warwickhunt' post='1176435' date='Mar 25 2011, 07:44 PM']How come I go away from the PC for 5 days and stuff like this goes by! Had one of these and has been said it's often referred to as a 'Streamette' and as Mart stated they are not as urban myth would have you believe, the earlier 91 Ltd Ed 'Infinettes' with the necks chopped off (among other things for the reasons that Mart outlined). The numbers of this bass vary depending upon who you listen to (if it is a seller you are listening to there are only 20 in the world... ) but seeing as how I've owned 2 and seen a dozen or more for sale I don't think that there are as few as people say! [/quote] There was a recent thread on the Warwick forum trying to establish how many there were. A clever chap pointed out that since these show up as Vampyres in the online serial number tool, any other serial numbers from that period that come up as Vampyres on the online tool are probably also Streamettes. Some fool* then spent some time typing in numbers and found that there were at least 60. Btw, there's another Streamette on ebay.com atm: [url="http://cgi.ebay.com/2001-Warwick-Streamer-LX-4-String-Special-bass-rare-N-R-/120700173563?pt=Guitar&hash=item1c1a4a7cfb"]http://cgi.ebay.com/2001-Warwick-Streamer-...=item1c1a4a7cfb[/url] * Yep. It [i]was[/i] me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikhay77 Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 Just found this link to clear up any confusion from Hans himself Dear Mr. Nicholas S, thanks for your mail and sorry for the late answer but I just arrived on a business travel in China and didn`t received your mail. - Corvette Bolt on well, this is a special story because this model wasn`t officially a special edition as we would call it by today. The row Body´s are coming from a special production we never launched official in the market and during a visit from our former US Distributor Dana B Good he found the body`s sitting on our stock and fell in love to it. So in a certain case it was once of our first special edition but with a custom Shop Corvette Body which was in a convex styling like the Streamer Bass. The Name was maybe given from our US Distributor, but wasn`t officially called like that from our side. In total we produced from this Instrument around 70 or 80 pcs. at all and only for the US market. The specs are as following : Bass Corvette Special 91 Edition with a convex curved Body Design Serial Number C 082722 01 Year 2001 Month March Number 082722 Neck Wood Ovangkol Wood Fingerboard Ebony Fingerboard Frets Bronce Warwick Frets Nut Just a Nut II Neck construction Bolt On Body Top 2 pcs. Bird Eyed Maple with a Strip of Bubinga in the middle position Backside, 3 pcs. Bubinga solid Surface Oil Finish Pickups MEC PP Active Pickups Electronic 2 Band Active MEC Electronic Hardware Warwick Gold Hardware So, this is the story behind the Bass, it is existing only in the USA and a very rare model and we are very glad that you such in love with your instrument. With best regards Warwick GmbH & Co Music Equipment KG Warwick Music Equipment Trading (Shanghai CN) Ltd.,Co. Warwick Music Equipment Trading (Zurich CH) GmbH Warwick Music Equipment Trading (Praha CZ) s.r.o. Warwick Music Equipment Trading (Warsaw) Sp. z o.o. Warwick Music Equipment Trading (Hailsham UK) Ltd. Warwick Music Equipment Trading (New York USA) Inc. Warwick Shanghai / P.R.China H.P.Wilfer 10.11.2009, 024 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikhay77 Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 Oh yeh,forgot to mention I have one of these,hence why on items wanted I am after a MEC P pick up and a machine head, lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warwickhunt Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 [quote name='mikhay77' post='1177569' date='Mar 26 2011, 07:51 PM']Just found this link to clear up any confusion from Hans himself[/quote] No disrespect to HPW but I've learned to take 'the gospel according to official Warwick sources' with a pinch of salt! You'd be amazed how many times people quote official Warwick responses (inc those from HPW) and they have glaring omissions/inaccuracies. In fact if your response is cut and paste from HPW, there's a humongous one (or more) staring you in the face in that statement! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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