goblin Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 As much as I love the G&L, I've been finding it's just not me, and naturally, I've gone crawling back towards Warwick. After much picking and choosing / weighing up the pros and cons between Streamers, Thumbs, Corvettes and Infinitys, I managed to land myself a cracking deal with this beaut. It's a 1996 Streamer Bolt On (Pre LX) in Ocean Blue, with gold hardware. Had to go down to High Wycombe for it, but, well I think it was worth the trip! It needs a little bit of work, but it's an 18 year old bass so that doesn't worry me. New volume pot and jack socket are the first thing, it's just been restrung too, then it'll be getting a Hipshot and some of the marks touching in, and then a good polish. We had a quick look with some polish yesterday and it's a very glossy finish. Even better! [URL=http://s88.photobucket.com/user/goblin92/media/Basses/7B4D948F-A241-44B1-BACC-C2394E9248C4_zpscj0inpv7.jpg.html][IMG]http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k195/goblin92/Basses/7B4D948F-A241-44B1-BACC-C2394E9248C4_zpscj0inpv7.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s88.photobucket.com/user/goblin92/media/Basses/56AB2D8E-89CC-4E96-A904-F7E4632598AC_zpsqq7kci2w.jpg.html][IMG]http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k195/goblin92/Basses/56AB2D8E-89CC-4E96-A904-F7E4632598AC_zpsqq7kci2w.jpg[/IMG][/URL] The neck is the nice, earlier C profile, in Wenge (same profile and wood as my '99 fretless, which is an awesome neck!) and the board is Wenge too. Looking at the body, I think it's solid A flamed Maple, though I've e-mail Warwick with pics and a serial number for them to confirm. Either way, for £600, I'm a very happy chappy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goblin Posted September 4, 2014 Author Share Posted September 4, 2014 Update from Mr Wilfer himself, the bass dates to November (so either I can't count correctly, or there's a flaw in the letter being the month number ), and the bass is solid flamed Maple with a satin oil Ocean Blue finish. Took it to a jam night tonight, and it sounds incredible. With a slight bias towards the bridge, with a slight bass lift, it really punches in the low end, yet it'll really sing in the top end, very fretlessy if played with a smidge of vibrato - lovely! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sambucadan Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 Glad you like it :-) I have many fond memories of many many MANY gigs with that bass.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goblin Posted September 6, 2014 Author Share Posted September 6, 2014 It just doesn't fail to impress! All I've heard from fellow musicians is about how good it sounds too, in comparison to the G&L (and that isn't a bad sounding bass!) I've got some little bits of work planned for it, but for now it's spot on! Work it's having done is a new jack socket, as unsurprisingly, barrel jacks don't last. I'll probably get it routed out and have a locking jack fitted, and I need to sort the scratchy volume pot when I get round to it... it works though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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