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Custom Thumb

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Jordy

Jun 5, 2005
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Melbourne, Australia
#1
Going in tomorrow to order my Warwick Thumb 5.
Getting it with a Wenge neck, and the older brass just-a-nut. Sticking with the MEC's though. So it's just really a new-old setup Thumb. Not too custom, I know...
However, mega excitement all round. :hyper:
But at least 12-14 weeks to wait for it :bawl:
 
#4
How would I go about ordering one of the original brass just-a-nut's for my FNA Jazzman? I've had a bit of searching around the Warwick website and come up with nothing. :bawl:

I'm not a fan (at all) of the sharp plastic nut the current generation Warwicks come with... :scowl: Other than that I love my baby! :D
 
#6
Jordy said:
Going in tomorrow to order my Warwick Thumb 5.
Getting it with a Wenge neck, and the older brass just-a-nut. Sticking with the MEC's though. So it's just really a new-old setup Thumb. Not too custom, I know...
However, mega excitement all round. :hyper:
But at least 12-14 weeks to wait for it :bawl:
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How much extra was the Wenge neck over the standard Thumb pricing? If you'd rather PM me, that's fine. I know of only a couple of people that have gonne the Warwick Custom route, and I've received mixed feedback on the pricings. Two guys said the price wasn't much more than the regular model, and the other said it wasn't worth the charge ar all. I've been talking about it for wanting to have a Stage I with a Bubinga body, Wenge/Bubinga neck, and EMG CS soapbars with an EMG 3-band pre.
 
#8
Halftooth said:
How much extra was the Wenge neck over the standard Thumb pricing? If you'd rather PM me, that's fine. I know of only a couple of people that have gonne the Warwick Custom route, and I've received mixed feedback on the pricings. Two guys said the price wasn't much more than the regular model, and the other said it wasn't worth the charge ar all. I've been talking about it for wanting to have a Stage I with a Bubinga body, Wenge/Bubinga neck, and EMG CS soapbars with an EMG 3-band pre.
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that would be very cool indeed! However w/ the wider neck, and all, I believer that would be a VERY heavey bass (this would be larger than a thumb bass). - though i do prefer their looks and sound, those woods weigh quite abit more than maple
 
#9
Bassosaurus said:
that would be very cool indeed! However w/ the wider neck, and all, I believer that would be a VERY heavey bass (this would be larger than a thumb bass). - though i do prefer their looks and sound, those woods weigh quite abit more than maple
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Yeah, it would be on the weighty side, but the tone would make it worth it. Actually, I'd maybe even keep the neck Bubinga with the Wenge laminates instead of the reverse. I had two buddies that had endorsement deals with Warwick and I was kicking the idea around with them about getting one, but they both ended up dropping their Warwick endorsements.
 
#18
I have a '88 wenge/bubinga/brass nut Thumb bass, and the tone is incredible. I just bought a fretless Thumb 6 with the graphite nut. I have bartolini's in the older one and MEC's in the newr one. I can't recommend the bart's enough. There IS a difference. I will replace the MEC's ASAP.
 
#20
JazzFusionB0rg said:
How would I go about ordering one of the original brass just-a-nut's for my FNA Jazzman? I've had a bit of searching around the Warwick website and come up with nothing. :bawl:

I'm not a fan (at all) of the sharp plastic nut the current generation Warwicks come with... :scowl: Other than that I love my baby! :D
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Is your Jazzman a fretless? I'm thinking very seriously about getting one somehow. I think it'll mean selling a few other basses... :spit: Crap!
 

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