Identify my Warwick

[darkinners]

Although it's a little difficult to tell from the OP's pic, the tuner holes in the headstock appear to be in the correct locations for a Warwick 4 string, and the curvature of the edges of the headstock from the nut to the tuners appears to be the same as well. The TR cover appears genuine, and is in the correct dimensions - the W inlay (not easy to do if you're not a builder) is the correct font, size and location on the headstock. No doubt the headstock been reshaped a little, but again, strange that a person would go to the trouble of making a 26 fret neck, especially when their work, as evidenced by the body, is less than stellar. In addition, the fretboard beyond the 26th fret is also the same length as a Warwick (though it does not meet the body right at the 23rd fret like it should).

As far as the one wonky-looking fret goes, that could just be parallax in the photo, or poorly seated when it was refretted.

@thunderine can you post pics of the back of the bass? Specifically, the neck?

Real Warwick tuners are angled, also thr "W" logo size is wrong, it's too big.

Building 26 frets neck is as hard as building a 21 frets neck if you disregard the proportion of the frets spacing.

In this photo, you can clearly see the bridge is not warwick 2 piece bridge, you would see the routing for the tailpiece if this bass had original Warwick bridge installed previously.

No need for the back photos, I am far from Warwick expert, I only have/had 3. 2 Thumb and 1 SS II but I can tell you with confident that, this is not a Warwick.

 

[Beej]

Real Warwick tuners are angled, also thr "W" logo size is wrong, it's too big.

Building 26 frets neck is as hard as building a 21 frets neck if you disregard the proportion of the frets spacing.

In this photo, you can clearly see the bridge is not warwick 2 piece bridge, you would see the routing for the tailpiece if this bass had original Warwick bridge installed previously.

No need for the back photos, I am far from Warwick expert, I only have/had 3. 2 Thumb and 1 SS II but I can tell you with confident that, this is not a Warwick.

I agree that the tuners should be angled, but since everything else is hacked, it's certainly possible that they were not installed at an angle. The more important tell is the location of the tuner holes relative to the nut - same distance, same angles, same string angle. The W logo (difficult to see in the OP's pic) is roughly the same size as the footprint of the tuner washer - same as on a real Warwick.

I'm a builder as well - you can find my work in the Luthier's Corner here on TB. 26 frets requires a longer fretboard and longer truss-rod (for optimum functionality at least), and again, it's odd that it would be the same dimensions and distance from the 26th fret to the end of the fretboard.

I didn't say the neck is a Warwick, I'm saying it could be. We definitely need more and better pics to know for suresies.

The body is a hack-job and definitely not a Warwick, unless it was re-topped and the builder decided to locate the pickups intentionally a few mm towards the bass side of the instrument. The location of the bridge compared to a Warwick is wrong as well, plus it's mounted crooked as was already pointed out earlier. The knobs are in the right position tho.

 

[Jon Moody]

Although it's a little difficult to tell from the OP's pic, the tuner holes in the headstock appear to be in the correct locations for a Warwick 4 string, and the curvature of the edges of the headstock from the nut to the tuners appears to be the same as well. The TR cover appears genuine, and is in the correct dimensions - the W inlay (not easy to do if you're not a builder) is the correct font, size and location on the headstock. No doubt the headstock been reshaped a little, but again, strange that a person would go to the trouble of making a 26 fret neck, especially when their work, as evidenced by the body, is less than stellar. In addition, the fretboard beyond the 26th fret is also the same length as a Warwick (though it does not meet the body right at the 23rd fret like it should).

You're overthinking this. Counterfeits exist of many different instruments. Here's a couple:

Warwick Thumb Bass copy (arguably a better copy than what the OP has; the bridge is closer)
Alembic Stanley Clarke copy
Fodera Victor Wooten Yin-Yang Bass copy

The OP has a fake.

 

[Beej]

You're overthinking this. Counterfeits exist of many different instruments. Here's a couple:

Warwick Thumb Bass copy (arguably a better copy than what the OP has; the bridge is closer)
Alembic Stanley Clarke copy
Fodera Victor Wooten Yin-Yang Bass copy

The OP has a fake.

Well, sounds like you absolutely, definitively know for sure!

Check my other post for other information.

 

[Jon Moody]

Well, sounds like you absolutely, definitively know for sure!

Check my other post for other information.

And you may check mine, specifically post 45.

Is there a slight, minuscule chance, that the OP has a legit Warwick that has been modded/hacked to bits? There are too many red flags.