Warmoth Gecko owner's club

[ceerod]

New to the forum and also new Warmoth owner. Picked up this Gecko 6 on eBay a few weeks ago. Its my 1st 6 string and 1st Warmoth and I'm loving it! Swamp ash body, zebrawood top and neck, ebony fingerboard, Bartolini PU and preamp. Greetings from Texas errbody!

[tubby.twins]

Originally Posted by ceerod

New to the forum and also new Warmoth owner. Picked up this Gecko 6 on eBay a few weeks ago. Its my 1st 6 string and 1st Warmoth and I'm loving it! Swamp ash body, zebrawood top and neck, ebony fingerboard, Bartolini PU and preamp. Greetings from Texas errbody!

Looks like a beauty to me! Welcome to the club; you're #18.

[TheAngryPocket]

Got my number already. Just like showing it off.

[Gecko 5]

Originally Posted by TheAngryPocket

Got my number already. Just like showing it off.

Wow!! Thats beautiful!!
Congrats

[TheAngryPocket]

Originally Posted by Gecko 5

Wow!! Thats beautiful!!
Congrats

Thank you! Anytime I feel G.A.S. coming on, it's been my "Beano" everytime I look at/ play it. It IS my workhorse.

[tubby.twins]

Originally Posted by TheAngryPocket

Got my number already. Just like showing it off.

Gorgeous!

[Insederec]

I can't wait to join this club! Gonna have a nice walnut/black korina laminate top with a wenge/pau ferro FB neck by the end of the year, hopefully...

[simenandreas]

I have also a gecko coming my way! Cant wait!
Mine is going to be a small Gecko5 with singelcoil jazz-style rooting for once!
Blue burst finish on a svamp ash body with white delano pickups, maple neck and fingerboard with black hardware. I will post pictures when I have got the parts and put it together It is going to be a sexy beast for sure

[TheAngryPocket]

Can't wait to see pics!

[bksavage]

I was in the midst of modifying my Jazz V 24 when I stumbled upon these basses and the whole build your own system. I bought Nordy NJ5FS pups, Hipshot A style, Ultralight Y, and Audere Z mode 4 band. Now I'm just going to Gecko out and get an Ash body with Quilted Maple Top and Wenge/Ebony neck!
This will be my dream bass...

I had to sell my MTD 535 during the recession and the Jazz just never came close.

Looking forward to the smell of copper, solder and New Bass!!

[simenandreas]

Count me in!

[tubby.twins]

Originally Posted by bksavage

Looking forward to the smell of copper, solder and New Bass!!

Awesome. And I look forward to seeing pictures of the finished bass. I'm reserving #19 for you.

Originally Posted by simenandreas

Count me in!

Welcome! Nice looking bass. I would never have thought to use white Jazz pickups with a blueburst finish. You're now #20.

[ric426]

Sign me up!
Near as I can tell, I'm at least the fourth owner of this bass. It was first introduced by mikeruss in post #33 of this thread and he wasn't the original owner. I got it from Tomservo-Crow about 3 weeks ago and I don't know if he got it from mikeruss or if there was another owner in between them.
The first photo is the original configuration. The next photos show the configuration right before I bought it and the third group show how it looks now, after I cleaned up the previous work. I made the pickguard to hide the olympic size pickup rout and cover some holes. It's got a Nordstrand MM5.2 pickup and Nordstrand 3 band EQ preamp and sounds pretty darn good. I originally planned on putting in a pair of Big Splits, but it sounds so good I'm going to leave it as is. I'm planning on getting some Hipshot Ultralight tuners soon and yesterday I made and installed some threaded steel neck inserts and used some stainless 10-24 bolts to remount the neck. It made a surprising improvement in sustain and tone and evened out some notes that were a little lacking. It's subtle, but I noticed the difference immediately.
Here's a link to a thread about the initial work I did on it: Gecko resurrection

[tubby.twins]

Originally Posted by ric426

Sign me up!
Near as I can tell, I'm at least the fourth owner of this bass.

Yep, I remember this bass, especially for its unique neck construction.

Very nice work on the new pickguard, as well as the cleanup work on the body and the headstock.

I hadn't thought of using the Gary Willis "speed knobs" on the tuners for a Gecko, and I'm glad to see these being used again here. I used a set of these (bought from the man himself) many years ago, on a defretted Ibanez 6-string monster. They look nice on the Gecko headstock as well.

Welcome to the club - you're #21.

[ric426]

Originally Posted by tubby.twins

Very nice work on the new pickguard, as well as the cleanup work on the body and the headstock.

I hadn't thought of using the Gary Willis "speed knobs" on the tuners for a Gecko, and I'm glad to see these being used again here.

Thanks. I'm really happy with the results. This bass sounds the best of the 3 I have and is lighter than the other 2 even though they're both 4 strings (with Warmoth necks).

I put the Willis speed knobs on because it had a slight tendency to neck dive when seated and I wanted to see if that would take care of it and it did. A couple of the tuners are worn though and are really hard to turn with the speed knobs, so I'm getting a set of Hipshot Ultralights for it. I bought a couple sets of the speed knobs years ago when Gary Willis sold them on his
website. That started an email exchange between us for several months when he found out that I'm a mountain biker too. That's mainly what we talked about.

[Insederec]

Look what came in the mail today!




Can you save me a spot in the club?

[TheAngryPocket]

Definitely wanna see pics of this wide 5 when its done!

[tubby.twins]

Originally Posted by Insederec

Can you save me a spot in the club?

With pleasure. Welcome, you are #22.