Warwick Streamer Stage 1, 1987, lined Fretless, going cheap! £725! **ON HOLD** - *SOLD* £800 Ney, 56283, Deutschland

[dyerseve]

**SOLD**

 

Now going even cheaper! 

Price Drop to only £725 for German made Stage 1!🤪

 

For sale is my 1987 Warwick Streamer Stage 1 lined fretless.
The good news is this is a fantastic fretless bass - it's from the 'golden era' of Warwick and so it has great build quality and the best hardware - solid brass bridge, Schaller tuners, brass nut, EMG pickups etc. The tone is incredible and versatile - active/passive electronics with treble and bass controls. It has so much fretless "mwah" when you play it!
The not so good news is that the headstock was broken - typical for streamers of that era. The break in the headstock was professionally repaired 20+ years ago so no need to worry now - the crack has been filled and painted over on the back of the neck so you won't feel it while playing.
The other downside to this bass is that it was once played left-handed. Because of this, the owner added a straplock to the lower horn. He put it on very poorly though and I left a big hole when I removed it. I took the bass to a luthier who repaired the hole so the bass was as strong as before. I then painted over this repair to try and make the bass look like new. The color match is not exact, but the repair on the neck or lower horn cannot be seen on stage or from more than 1 meter away.
I have priced the bass accordingly.

I would add that, despite the details HPW has provided below, I believe the bass was not originally fretless, but was converted to fretless at some point in its life. Also, the fretboard is Wenge, not Ebony. Also, I added the active/passive volume pot - it is a high quality MEC pot as Warwick themselves would use.

Here are the specs of the bass - straight from Hans Peter Wilfer (Warwick CEO)
- Bass Streamer Stage I
4 strings
Serial number M 1108 87
Year 1987
August month
Number 1108
Neck Wood Wenge Wood with Maple lamination
Fingerboard Ebony Wood(see my comment above)
with real mother of Pearl Dot inlays
Maple Frett Lines
Fret's NO
Fretless Yes(see my comment above)
Nut Brass Nut
Neck construction Neck through
Bodysuit 2pcs. solid Annegre (I guess) wood
Surface Dark Blue Highpolish
Pickups active EMG PJ pickups
Electronic active MEC 2 Band Electronic
Hardware Gold Hardware made by Schaller for Warwick
Made in West Germany / Pretzfeld / Franconia

Edited June 7, 2022 by dyerseve
Price drop

[warwickhunt]

Stupid stupid stupid Brexit... that is all!    

 

I had to spend some time yesterday explaining to another Warwick owner that despite emails direct from HPW it is rare that modified basses are correctly spec'd out by him.  The bass in question I knew for a 'fact' had started life as a regular SSI and had the fingerboard replaced from wenge to maple by a previous owner, yet the present owner was quoting how rare it was because HPW had said personally (email) said that it left the factory with a maple board.  

 

Any ways, GLWTS.  I'd have bought that, had it fretted and stripped back to natural were it not for 25% taxes + shipping!  

[dyerseve]

20 hours ago, warwickhunt said:

Stupid stupid stupid Brexit... that is all!    

 

I had to spend some time yesterday explaining to another Warwick owner that despite emails direct from HPW it is rare that modified basses are correctly spec'd out by him.  The bass in question I knew for a 'fact' had started life as a regular SSI and had the fingerboard replaced from wenge to maple by a previous owner, yet the present owner was quoting how rare it was because HPW had said personally (email) said that it left the factory with a maple board.  

 

Any ways, GLWTS.  I'd have bought that, had it fretted and stripped back to natural were it not for 25% taxes + shipping!  

Yeah I've had similar experiences. The bass you mention wouldn't be a 6 string Stage 1 would it?

[briansbrew]

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