I don’t think it’s BB… it doesn’t have the logo on the head stock.
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I think @Krescht ID’d the bass… even with not quite the right logo and stuff…
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So an old friend ends up back in the crib…
Ten years ago one of my grandsons (12 at the time) wanted a bass for his birthday. Being a good gramps, I picked up a Squire P Bass for him which he played around on until he left for the Army a couple years ago. Before he left, he gave it to his cousin who has played it in a couple bands he was in over the last couple years. Well, now that grandson has just left for the Army and we spent a few days with him in NC before he left and had me take it home to mess with while he’s away for the next few years… Just replaced the strings, smoothed out the edges of the fret wires, gave it a good cleaning, and set the truss and action. Damn thing sounds fabulous! Very impressed with the tone on this thing!
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Welcome home Bill @Lanny,
Looks like you got a bit of GAS going on done in Georgia 
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It looks right at home with the rest of the family.
Cheers Brian
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Down in Georgia
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I’m digging how your workroom is both studio and ammo manufacturing plant.
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I was going to say I like the workbench a lot. Did you make that, Lanny? I’ve been making some stuff like that around our place because we can’t find exactly the shelving we want. That looks way sturdier than the stuff I am doing though.
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Thanks @TNKA36 Brian… Always fun visiting the kids and grandkids… i’m sure I’ll be swapping out the pots and shielding the wiring.
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Gotta have both worlds here in Middle Heorgia @eric.kiser:grinning:
. Now that deer season is open and the rut is sue to hit at the end of the month, I had to make sure I had everything ready for when the kids and grandkids all come down to hunt… Hell, there have been times when I build ammo during breaks from playing bass, or play bass during breaks from building ammo……
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Yes @howard, I build all of my own stuff. When it comes to workbenches, for me, they have to be heavy duty. I use the one in my gun/music room as a Luthier/Gunsmith bench since those are the two hobbies I stay busy with inside the house. My workshop also has plenty of workbenches, that I use for many other projects that I’ve got going on around here.
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Nice!
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Guns and basses ! What a wonderful world @Lanny
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Soooo… This might be my hook up to the MBD:
This guy is selling unknown brand old bass that he converted into fretless himself. Only 69€
I was thinking to buy it and transfer the Nylon Tapewound that I bought “just to see” to it. I would love to have a fretless bass without too much damage so that I can satisfy that tone need…
What do you guys think ?
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For that price I’d go for it @Fahri.
Good luck, cheers Brian
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You really can’t go wrong at that money @Fahri
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I went out to a guitar store and decided to play a bunch of different instruments.
@terb has often said he doesn’t like Fender pickups. What I found was that even the high end Fender pickups seem “polite”, for lack of a better word. @terb is this what your talking about when you say you don’t like them?
While there I decided to give an Epiphone EB-0 a try. Dang, what a huge difference in sound. The pickup didn’t seem like the best example of a humbucker but boy did it sound FAT. It’s been awhile since I’ve played around with a widely spaced humbucker like that.
Was this fatness due to placement?
Is it specific to the Epiphone pickup?
I don’t remember Sterling pickups having this same fatness?
That was the first time I started to understand MBD.
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The EB-0 pickup is right by the neck. As you move towards the neck you get richer, deeper and boomier; toward the bridge, more bright, thin and defined.
If by Sterling you mean a Sterling Stingray, the classic 'ray pickup position is towards the bridge and is responsible for a lot of the distinctive sound of the thing. A stingray will definitely sound thinner and less boomy than if I were to dial all the way to the neck pickup on my bass, for example. They are also more mids-punchy and defined than my bass would be if I did that. And famously growly 
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Still couldn’t convince my wife after the big shock that was Markbass amp 
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yeah something like that. most Fender pickups are very versatile but lack personnality. meh.
there are some exceptions but that’s really rare.
placement, scale, woods, design … everything counts !
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On the 24th of January, 2006, (two days after I turned 37,) the Warwick factory in Germany produced this Corvette bass.
They were in their second year of producing the Corvette with the option of two humbuckers.
This model is known as the “Corvette double buck” and is designated as “$$”.
154 days later, it was the 17th Birthday of Maxime M and he and his parents decided to drive from Chevilly, 121km to Paris for the weekend. They went into Bass Center on 22 Rue Victor Massé, where his parents coughed up 1225 Euro and Maxime walked out with a spanking new Warwick Corvette.
For 14 years, 3 months and 25 days (5231 days) Maxime kept it in excellent condition until the day came when he decided he’d part with it.
For money.
That day was last Saturday and the money was mine.
The costs included a 600 km round trip included for me to go and get it.
It came with a warwick rockbag, the toolkit with all the tools. The original warranty and ID papers and even the lable that was originally tied to the bass.
The absolute best find, which is how I know the timeline is the original purchase receipt!
It has been cleaned, stripped, waxed (yes. real wax), taped up, polished, lemon oiled, restrung, and inspected.
It will get new strings and a new “Just a nut” as the plastic based one on this bass has suffered from being as fragile as they are reputed to be. It’s the one achillies heel of the early Warwicks. Great idea, somewhat compromised by poor execution.
I have ordered the latest version in brass and will polish the hell out of it for maximum pimpage points. I polished the bell brass frets already, so figured I may as well go the entire hog.
I don’t think that this can be beaten as a tweaker’s delight. Many of you will know about this already. The nut can be altered up and down and tilted either way. The bridge is also an excellent design with the regular intonation adjustment forward and back and up and down. Then the saddles can slide sideways, being held by another grub screw, to spread the strings.
And if you’re lazy and you want lower again, the entire bridge locates on four screws, so can tilt and go up and down.
So if you find a Warwick bass seriously screwed up, don’t be surprised. Warwick have four videos on youtube which show the correct sequence and clearances to set or reset one to factory specs.
The humbuckers each have a dedicated three position switch for either single, parallel or series connections. That’s nine different coil combination options if you’re mixing between both pickups.
Plus three with bridge only and three with neck pickup only. So there’s 15 options.
Then you can lift the volume knob and go passive. So there’s 30.
Some combinations sound sensational. I just wish I remembered which ones they were. I think I’ll make a switch map for my favorite settings.
Once this made a Facebook Debut, one of my bass player friends said “Looks pretty good. You should call it something French. Le Warwick.”
This started me thinking that this was a very fine idea.
However, Warwicks are known as 'wicks, so all we need is a good French first name. Jean Reno is my favourite French actor. So that’s easy.
I present to you all, Le Jean Wick…
Now that I’ve written all of this, I had another thought. I wonder how much the exchange rate was from Euro to Australian dollars in June 2006. That information is online and the exchange rate was 1.710947.
It seems that he had it for 5231 days and lost $95.91
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