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04-09-2010, 05:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: DC area | | | Price Drop - '98 Warwick FNA $775 shipped
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Here's a chance to grab a fantastic and difficult-to-find bass. It's a 1998 Warwick Corvette FNA with an all-wenge neck. The tone of this beast is all 'wick, lots of punch and natural compression. As most of you know, these wenge necks are slimmer than the newer ovangkol ones, and this one also has smaller, vintage size frets, so it plays with lower (perceived) action and almost no fret noise. I can honestly say that this is the best bass I've owned (and I've owned more than I care to admit), but GAS has got me and I've got to give in, so take advantage of my stupidity and get yourself a great axe.
The only trade I'm looking for is a 4-string fretted Birdsong (possibly a fretless).
$850 775 700 cash sale, or best offer. Trying to keep things simple by staying local for now. No longer local only will ship in a hardshell case, same price.
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04-10-2010, 07:27 AM
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04-10-2010, 03:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: DC area | | | No love for the wenge?
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04-10-2010, 06:39 PM
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04-11-2010, 07:12 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: DC area | | | a few more pictures
some closer shots of the bass.... The flame in the maple is quite subtle. The body is a nice piece of ash. Note the extremely tight neck pocket (I'm convinced that one of the major factors behind that focused warwick tone is simply the great build quality, but I digress...). The wenge accent line between the flame maple and the ash body is a nice touch.
I would never consider selling either of my 'wicks if I wasn't going shortscale. I've yet to find anything that competes with the tone of a Warwick.
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04-11-2010, 07:13 AM
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two more....
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04-11-2010, 05:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: DC area | | | PRICE DROP: $775 or best offer
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04-12-2010, 04:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: DC area | | | Not alot of local interest... this one ships in a HSC.
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04-12-2010, 06:51 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: HWY 61 | | | What's the body made of? Is that just a wenge inlay around the contour? That's one fabulous bass. Thanks! |
04-13-2010, 03:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: DC area | | No... thank you for the bump 
The body is ash, the top is flame maple (the flame is subtle), and there's a wenge accent line between the two.
One nice feature that I haven't mentioned yet is the recessed straplocks. It's nice to have straplocks that don't sit a mile from the bass and look funny.
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04-13-2010, 05:02 PM
|  | that video LIES | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | | I vaguely recall reading that the accent layer is walnut; regardless, these are SWEET basses. VERY snappy, incredibly playable.
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04-13-2010, 05:54 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Columbus, IN | | Quote:
Originally Posted by bassteban I vaguely recall reading that the accent layer is walnut; regardless, these are SWEET basses. VERY snappy, incredibly playable. | LaFawnDuh! Yeah, I've heard that the accent is Walnut, and I must concour that Warwicks recessed StrapLocks are INCREDABLE!!! 4 out of 5 Warwicks surveyed Prefer them! 
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04-13-2010, 07:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Richmond, VA | | | Probably one of the best Warwicks ever made, and it's extremely hard to come by. By the way the pre-2000 Warwicks are by far superior than the newer ones, so anyone who wants a Warwick should snatch it up. |
04-14-2010, 11:11 AM
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Originally Posted by bassteban I vaguely recall reading that the accent layer is walnut; regardless, these are SWEET basses. VERY snappy, incredibly playable. | Oh, it could be. It looked like wenge and I hadn't heard of Warwick using walnut before, so I just assumed.... thanks, it is a great bass. I planned on keeping it for a long, long time, but I'm going shortscale and trying to raise money to start building my own basses, so...
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04-15-2010, 08:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: DC area | | | PRICE DROP, $700
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04-16-2010, 11:48 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: DC area | | few nibbles but holding out for a cash sale...no reasonable offer refused
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04-25-2010, 08:00 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: DC area | | | SOLD
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