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How much do warwick's make at the moment? This came up on my normal ebay browsing

Odd one this... one photo, local pickup only, pretty crappy advert really - might be a good deal there for someone, my wife would kill me if I accidentally won another auction for local pickup! :D
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/warwick-streamer-stage-1-neck-thru-bass-/261376101418?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item3cdb3acc2a

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Depends on what it is really.

Unfortunately, that image gives very few clues! All maple construction.....that's about it! Think you can just about see it doesn't have a brass nut so its probably a 00's bass, possibly recessed straplocks so would say 2000-2002.

On that basis, I would say anywhere between £1k and £1.2k depending on it's condition, which does look good.

Worth watching if you are local!

(how are you getting on with your thumb?? ;))

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[quote name='Kev' timestamp='1389897655' post='2339335']
Depends on what it is really.

Unfortunately, that image gives very few clues! All maple construction.....that's about it! Think you can just about see it doesn't have a brass nut so its probably a 00's bass, possibly recessed straplocks so would say 2000-2002.

On that basis, I would say anywhere between £1k and £1.2k depending on it's condition, which does look good.

Worth watching if you are local!

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the price of them seems to yo yo about all over the place! I thought it was about that much now. I'm not going for it- honestly the wife would kill me!

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[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1389910185' post='2339560']
That's a good price. Its probably swamp ash. To my knowledge Warwick don't use maple.
[/quote] err the Streamer stage one has been pretty much all maple since about 1989
before then it was maple with wenge neck, and before that wenge neck and cherry wings.

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[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1389910565' post='2339570']
The one in my avatar is a 2005 SS1. According to Warwick it's swamp ash.
[/quote] it's maple, it's a nice bit of flamed maple, warwick told you wrong. If you don't believe me google what they both look like (corvette $$ tend to be swamp ash)

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[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1389907518' post='2339515']
used it the first time on monday practice... honestly it's the bass sound I hear in my head, flipping amazing!
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Awesome stuff, figured out those pickup switches?

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[quote name='Kev' timestamp='1389990684' post='2340420']
Awesome stuff, figured out those pickup switches?
[/quote] Nope! Just set them in ways that sound good. No idea what they are actually doing. Theres one that is the equivalent of rolling off the tone on a passive bass.....the other two - no idea!

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[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1389996933' post='2340491']
Nope! Just set them in ways that sound good. No idea what they are actually doing. Theres one that is the equivalent of rolling off the tone on a passive bass.....the other two - no idea!
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At the risk of teaching you to suck eggs... That sounds like you've got it in passive mode and you've not found the passive/active switch. Does one of the pots pull up, that will then make it active and the other 2 pots are your EQ.

Well that's how my SS1 works. It would be a steal at £750 btw. I love mine.

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[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1390203691' post='2342468']
At the risk of teaching you to suck eggs... That sounds like you've got it in passive mode and you've not found the passive/active switch. Does one of the pots pull up, that will then make it active and the other 2 pots are your EQ.

Well that's how my SS1 works. It would be a steal at £750 btw. I love mine.
[/quote] the bass with the switches is a 1985 thumb bass.... so no passive mode - the active jazz pickups from seymore duncan have 3 switches on each pickup, one is the resonance of the pickup, one of the others is an eq curve... but I don't know which is which and there is also a 3rd that I don't have a clue what it's supposed to be doing! :D

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[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1390203906' post='2342469']
the bass with the switches is a 1985 thumb bass.... so no passive mode - the active jazz pickups from seymore duncan have 3 switches on each pickup, one is the resonance of the pickup, one of the others is an eq curve... but I don't know which is which and there is also a 3rd that I don't have a clue what it's supposed to be doing! :D
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Sounds a great set up. I thought it strange/unlikely you'd have a push-pull and not found it.
:D

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[quote name='throwoff' timestamp='1390300204' post='2343646']
Those MEC pots and EQ's can be a touch odd at first.

Might need replacing if one seems to be doing nothing.
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it's from 1985..... not MEC at all, they didn't exist then!

hang on- i've a photo....

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[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1389895721' post='2339299']
How much do warwick's make at the moment? This came up on my normal ebay browsing

Odd one this... one photo, local pickup only, pretty crappy advert really - might be a good deal there for someone, my wife would kill me if I accidentally won another auction for local pickup! :D
[url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/warwick-streamer-stage-1-neck-thru-bass-/261376101418?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item3cdb3acc2a"]http://www.ebay.co.u...=item3cdb3acc2a[/url]
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It may have been cheap but not cheap enough to get a single bid! :(

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