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12-27-2012, 11:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Victoria BC, Canada | | | Is this Warwick beyond saving?
I just saw this ad on the local online classifieds, and thought I'd share it. On the surface it looks pretty normal, I'm half tempted to make an offer, but the more I look the more I convince myself that it would have to be aquired for next to nothing to salvage it. I predict refinishing it, fabricating bezels for the pickups, and the control cavity panel, as well as plugging some of the random holes in the body.
Here is the link: http://www.usedvictoria.com/classifi...-----_18787567
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12-27-2012, 12:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Preston, England | | | I tend to agree with you.
Could be a good bass, but you'd have to undo all the damage first.
I think the price is too high given the state its in.
$800 and no more for me..
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12-27-2012, 12:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Saturn, Solar System | | | the bass is not beyond saving but the price for this wreck is |
12-27-2012, 12:04 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: San Diego, California | | | For $800 you can get a perfectly good Fortress that DOESN'T need fixing up. I can't imagine paying more than $200 US for this ugly monstrosity... |
12-27-2012, 12:07 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: NYC | | | Someone reallyl went to town on this thing, body and headstock reshape too.
It could be a funk FrankenWick if you get it cheap but $800 is to steep.
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12-27-2012, 12:13 PM
|  | . | | Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Rochester, NY | | | Very fixable. But not a chance on that price. I agree with Collins. Make an offer. No higher than 300 though IMO.
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12-27-2012, 12:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: UK | | | The bass isn't beyond saving, but the previous owner probably is.
Only buy it if you really enjoy messing about with sad basses...and the fact that you ask the original question suggests you aren't. And certainly not at the asking price: 200 sounds like absolute tops.
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12-27-2012, 12:19 PM
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Warwick & Framus Social Media | | | | | I would agree with the others, its very altered and not in a good way. Price-wise, I would say exactly what RCCollins and Osprey said. Best of luck... |
12-27-2012, 12:22 PM
|  | mi la ré sol | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Reims, Champagne, France | | Quote:
Originally Posted by RCCollins  For $800 you can get a perfectly good Fortress that DOESN'T need fixing up. | In Victoria? Not a chance.
The bass itself would easily be saved but the price is still bad. |
12-27-2012, 12:25 PM
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Warwick & Framus Social Media | | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Jazz Ad In Victoria? Not a chance.
The bass itself would easily be saved but the price is still bad. | FWIW, I just picked up a Fortress on Ebay for $660 in excellent shape. Even with shipping to Victoria, its a much better deal than what is offered here. |
12-27-2012, 12:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: St. Paul, MN | | | Wickenbacker? |
12-27-2012, 12:36 PM
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Warwick & Framus Social Media | | | | It actually looks like the seller was trying to make it a Stuart Zender signature model. See here: 
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12-27-2012, 12:45 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: 2k W of the Duwamsh | | | "It actually looks like he was trying to make it a Stuart Zender signature model."
Then he (we can only assume) failed badly. So, potentially, for $200 and a bunch'a monkeying around you could have a butchered Wick....... I'd pass.
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12-27-2012, 12:50 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Upstate, South Carolina | | I kinda like that headstock  |
12-27-2012, 01:06 PM
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Originally Posted by zenman Wickenbacker? | +1 |
12-27-2012, 01:08 PM
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Endorsing artist: Musicman basses, Hipshot products | | Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: New York City | | Quote:
Originally Posted by RCCollins For $800 you can get a perfectly good Fortress that DOESN'T need fixing up. I can't imagine paying more than $200 US for this ugly monstrosity... | I, too, agree with this guy here. |
12-27-2012, 01:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Victoria BC, Canada | | | I'm not particularily interested in the bass, if I could get it for $200 max, it might be a fun project, but at the end of the day, it will always be an orphan, with limited resale value. I have enough orphan basses as it is. I'd love to know what this guy was thinking when he started hacking away.
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