Franken-wick, or Wick-enstein?

[2lim]

I have been toying around with building bass bodies for a while now, and I scored a very sweet deal on an old Warwick neck. I think it is a corvette BO on neck, but frankly that is not important to me, as it feels like heaven.

I had purchased some wood off another TB'er and has some pieces laying around that weren't going to any immediate use, so I put it all in one basket, and built this.

It is now my go-to player bass, and frankly, I cannot find another bass that I can afford(sub 1000 cdn) that plays or sounds like this.

Details:
-Poplar base, with walnut, then flamed maple, with an oak cut out top laminate.
-Agate stone "inlaid" into the upper hip
-Warwick BO neck, wenge/ovangkol
-Gotoh tuners
-no name spector style bridge
-Bartolini MM style pickup
-Rosewood knobs(purchased from ebay seller bezdez)
-Custom freehand cut body style


Pardon phone-camera pics

[2lim]

one more

[no1likesme]

looks nice

[c3powil]

Wow, how does it sound?Like a wawick or MM?

[2lim]

It sounds like an MM with a little more low end. The MM pickup is moved towards the neck from the typical sweet spot.

I had a MM SUB and loved the sound, but found I was always boosting the low end to fill it out, and it was kinda heavy. I then happened across that warwick neck for(get this) 50$, yeah 50$. I immediately fell in love with the carving.... it felt like my SDGR neck but with that little extra bit of roundness for comfort. I built the body to be nice and solid, and feel substantial but without the weight. I wanted the tone to be liuke the MM but a little bassy-er so I wouldn't have to EQ as much.

This kinda fell right into place when it went together, and now it has ruined me for most other basses.

I also get tons of questions on where i got the cusotm Warwick lol

Simon