Warwick Franken bass... Thumb? Streamer? Help me identify ???

Tomservo-Crow · #1 09-09-2011, 11:03 AM

I was in a local music shop the other day and I saw a used Warwick bass they were listing as a Thumb. seriel number B-654321-00. Which should make it a 2000 made in Feb. Something wasnt quite right with it. the neck was a 5 string, painted white with a truss rod cover that said thumb (I figure those are easy enough to swap), Black color on the headstock, and is Bolted onto what looks like a Streamer shape body but with 6 screws holding it together instead of 4. The body is also white, but looks tinged yellowish, like it is older than the neck. The body is also scalloped, or curved/convex in shape. It definitly had some good weight to it. It had 2 Jazz MEC pickups and three knobs. 1 volume, 1 blend, and a stacked bass treble. the cable jack was on the bottom side edge of bass and not the front, like the 2000 Streamers.
Sorry I don't have any Pics, I only realized it looked weird after I got home and did some research.

Does this shape, color, layout. ring any bells?

Thanks,
-AJ

Dr. Cheese · #2 09-09-2011, 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Tomservo-Crow

I was in a local music shop the other day and I saw a used Warwick bass they were listing as a Thumb. seriel number B-654321-00. Which should make it a 2000 made in Feb. Something wasnt quite right with it. the neck was a 5 string, painted white with a truss rod cover that said thumb (I figure those are easy enough to swap), Black color on the headstock, and is Bolted onto what looks like a Streamer shape body but with 6 screws holding it together instead of 4. The body is also white, but looks tinged yellowish, like it is older than the neck. The body is also scalloped, or curved/convex in shape. It definitly had some good weight to it. It had 2 Jazz MEC pickups and three knobs. 1 volume, 1 blend, and a stacked bass treble. the cable jack was on the bottom side edge of bass and not the front, like the 2000 Streamers.
Sorry I don't have any Pics, I only realized it looked weird after I got home and did some research.

Does this shape, color, layout. ring any bells?

Thanks,
-AJ

Go back, take a cell phone pic, and post it.

Tomservo-Crow · #3 09-09-2011, 01:39 PM

Yeah, I will try to get back there in the next few days and shoot a few pics. Are there any views that would be especially helpful?

bassteban · #4 09-09-2011, 01:46 PM

Full frontal pics should help, also the 6 neck bolts. That said, w/o seeing it but going by the OP, I'm guessing it's an older Streamer body(which I believe are concave/curved)w/a newer(from the serial #)neck, maybe a second-hand trussrod cover. The 6-bolt part is odd- a mod perhaps?

JimiLL · #5 09-09-2011, 02:27 PM

None of this sounds right.

If it was a 5 bolt neck id say it was a streamer std

Buslady7803 · #6 09-09-2011, 03:23 PM

Post it on the Warwick forum on Ws site

seungkoo · #7 09-09-2011, 03:28 PM

Maybe one of those bolt on Spector ns2j reissues and someone put a Warwick neck on?

Tomservo-Crow · #8 09-09-2011, 05:23 PM

Some pics. The frets don't look like brass. And like they were replaced at some point?

Darkstrike · #9 09-09-2011, 05:30 PM

I don't think it's a Warwick.

Body shape is well off.

Ric5 · #10 09-09-2011, 05:37 PM

Ya it is not a Warwick

J. Crawford · #11 09-09-2011, 05:38 PM

Everything about that looks off.

JimiLL · #12 09-09-2011, 05:45 PM

Cant explain the 6 bolt thing....

may have taken hardware and such off another warwick and then built this around it....

coreyfyfe · #13 09-09-2011, 06:02 PM

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Originally Posted by bassteban

I'm guessing it's an older Streamer body(which I believe are concave/curved)w/a newer(from the serial #)neck,

Just to add this to the conversation, my streamer LX-5 was a concave body made in 99. That said, this bass is very odd. The 6 bolts is weird. The body isn't shaped right for a streamer. The end of the neck/fretboard where it meets the body is strange too. That's not standard on a warwick, at least not a bolt on.

KeithPas · #14 09-09-2011, 06:06 PM

Upper horn is unlike any Warwick I have seen. Looks like a cool bass but I don;t think it is a Warwick.

lowendrv · #15 09-09-2011, 06:12 PM

Even the seriel number looks bogus, B-654321-00...It doesn't show up on Wariwick's own search tool.
Warwick Basses Amps & Rock'n Roll
Plus if you invert the number 00-123456-B...I think the B is for bogus...

Rage1331 · #16 09-09-2011, 06:25 PM

I'm sitting here looking at the Warwick Fortress in our store, and that thing you posted looks like a Corvette had a child with a Fortress. It also kind of reminds me of the old EBD line from Ibanez. Strange indeed.

Tomservo-Crow · #17 09-09-2011, 06:35 PM

Pretty much everything everyone has said so far are thoughts that have been going around in my head. It actually didn't sound bad and had a pretty tight Low B. But they are asking $900 for it, and that is too much especially for a fake/mis-mosh Warwick. Maybe I can talk em into a reasonable price.

lowendrv · #18 09-09-2011, 06:39 PM

Is this on Consignment at Starving Musician in Santa Clara ? Ask if you can take the cover off the back of the body. Then check out how bad the wiring for the pre was done. Offer them $100.00 and see if they bite..

**peledog** · #19 09-09-2011, 07:04 PM

NS Spector body curve like a Streamer, two piece bridge but what a strange shape!!!

IPA · #20 09-09-2011, 07:05 PM

Real or not, I kind of like that.