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Ebay / Warwick

#3
beats me, thats what i was asking... did it happen or is this a poor marketing ploy coming from the seller? ive thought about it more and all i can come up with is that its got a wenge neck and the new ones dont... is that what hes talking about?
 
#6
bassteban said:
Spectors are similar in shape to Streamers, & I seem to recall hearing that Stuart S. designed the Streamer. As far as lawsuits, I think the seller is trippin', & hoping you are too.
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Ned Steinberger designed that shape that Stuart Spector used - therefore it's the NS shape.
Then HPW started making basses in that shape, and SS sued him, resulting in Warwick paying royalty fees for each Streamer - up until Kramer bought Spector.
With the Thumb, there was no lawsuit that I know of.
However, it does look like one of the old ones: it's got the one-piece Schaller bridge, EMGs, dots and 26-fret neck. I think that was in production from 87 to 90, but I could be wrong on that.
Anyway, that must be a killer bass.
 
#9
The guy could be wrong about the neck material, which could make it a little more legit. But if it is indeed ovankol, then it's a fake.

As Frank Martin said, the lawsuit was related to the Streamer, not the Thumb. Lawsuit is a popular term to raise the price of something, i.e. lawsuit Ibanez Les Pauls, or Lawsuit Fernandes Strats.

I'd ask for additional pictures, as well as serial number. The serial number will identify the year, and it's difficult to fake. Especially on a neck-thru since it's extremely difficult to switch the neck.
 
#10
jive1 said:
The guy could be wrong about the neck material, which could make it a little more legit. But if it is indeed ovankol, then it's a fake.

As Frank Martin said, the lawsuit was related to the Streamer, not the Thumb. Lawsuit is a popular term to raise the price of something, i.e. lawsuit Ibanez Les Pauls, or Lawsuit Fernandes Strats.

I'd ask for additional pictures, as well as serial number. The serial number will identify the year, and it's difficult to fake. Especially on a neck-thru since it's extremely difficult to switch the neck.
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I'm just curious about the reason why he says the body shape was discontinued. Also like i said, the bridge as well.
 
#11
jive1 said:
The guy could be wrong about the neck material, which could make it a little more legit. But if it is indeed ovankol, then it's a fake.
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What, he wrote Ovangkol? :rollno:
That surely looks like wenge. And the old ones (as I said, bridge, EMGs, dots, 26-fret-neck) all had wenge necks, except for the custom ones.
It sounds like to me the seller doesn't actually know what he's selling, he's most probably not the original owner. Ovangkol must've come from the W site, as the new ones have ovangkol necks.

As for the serial number, it is indeed very important, though this definately looks real
 
#12
Tobias4 said:
I'm just curious about the reason why he says the body shape was discontinued. Also like i said, the bridge as well.
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I already said the early Warwicks had one-piece Schaller bridges. Except for the Nobby Meidel, of course ;)
Also, the old shape differed a little bit from the new. Now it's smaller, the rear rounding is a bit different, as are the horns, but it certainly wasn't because of a lawsuit.
 
#19
the same model thumb, appears in jon entwistles bass book twice, it is described as the warwick "try it out" bass, one of the basses in the picture the fretted model features the "thumb bass" name on the truss rod cover, however has a horizontal jazz pickup and an angled one, the other bass in the book is an early thumb fretless model, no name appears on the truss rod cover, it has countersunk tuners, one piece bridge and the two angled jazz pickups, it also has front fret markers, the body also looks alot fatter a more rounded body, compared to the smaller thumbs today, maybe the ebay auction is for a really rare warwick as it matches the one in the jon entwistle book!
 

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