Well I got this bass in eBay couple months and it was a transparent teal. Very beautiful color but the bass had minor flaws that irked me and I wanted to refinish it to an original natural oil finish.
Bass is an 1988 Warwick streamer bass. Cherry body and wenge neck. Lovely 1.5" jazz width neck and a very thin comfy neck all around. I wanted to feel that wenge underneath my hands!
Here it is before:
Work in progress
Alright the day everyone has been waiting for!!
First off I would I like to thank Joey! (Mr.Bassie) from this forum. He has been a great friend ever since our first transaction on talkbass. Some of you might know him and he is an avid spector fan (now a spector endorsee!!)
Through Joey and his connections we were able to get this Warwick refinished correctly.
Chris Bavaria (Guitar Finisher for PRS for 17 years) did the refinish and Phil Jacoby? (joey can correct me on the names) of Philtone guitars did the disassemble and reassembly of the bass. Also rerouted a new battery box, did the set up and cleaned up all the hardware and frets.
Both companies did their jobs to the tee! The bass looks spectacular and I cannot even tell that the bass was refinished.
A little history on the bass. Chris found a crack by the control cavity that Warwick fixed during production. (I believe that is why they painted this bass blue to start with) If there were no crack, you had to be on crack not to finish this bass in natural to show off the beautiful grains of the cherry and wenge!
We found out the bass was produced in 1988. A rare specimen with both cherry/wenge and 2 piece bridge!
Some things that caught their eyes were that the original just-a-nut has seen better days so the set up, while perfect, can be done a better way once my new nut comes in. (just-a-nut 3 brass on its way!) Phil had to adjust the bridge a bit higher than the norm to make up for the very low nut height.
Also there is one more person to thank! Florin from the warwick forums. Without him we would not have done the oil finish correctly as warwick. There are many different ways of doing it but I wanted that oem warwick feel so Joey, Chris went the extra mile to make sure they get the secret from Warwick!
Heres the pics!! Photos really cant capture the beauty but heres the icing on the cake!!
Bass is an 1988 Warwick streamer bass. Cherry body and wenge neck. Lovely 1.5" jazz width neck and a very thin comfy neck all around. I wanted to feel that wenge underneath my hands!
Here it is before:
Work in progress
Alright the day everyone has been waiting for!!
First off I would I like to thank Joey! (Mr.Bassie) from this forum. He has been a great friend ever since our first transaction on talkbass. Some of you might know him and he is an avid spector fan (now a spector endorsee!!)
Through Joey and his connections we were able to get this Warwick refinished correctly.
Chris Bavaria (Guitar Finisher for PRS for 17 years) did the refinish and Phil Jacoby? (joey can correct me on the names) of Philtone guitars did the disassemble and reassembly of the bass. Also rerouted a new battery box, did the set up and cleaned up all the hardware and frets.
Both companies did their jobs to the tee! The bass looks spectacular and I cannot even tell that the bass was refinished.
A little history on the bass. Chris found a crack by the control cavity that Warwick fixed during production. (I believe that is why they painted this bass blue to start with) If there were no crack, you had to be on crack not to finish this bass in natural to show off the beautiful grains of the cherry and wenge!
We found out the bass was produced in 1988. A rare specimen with both cherry/wenge and 2 piece bridge!
Some things that caught their eyes were that the original just-a-nut has seen better days so the set up, while perfect, can be done a better way once my new nut comes in. (just-a-nut 3 brass on its way!) Phil had to adjust the bridge a bit higher than the norm to make up for the very low nut height.
Also there is one more person to thank! Florin from the warwick forums. Without him we would not have done the oil finish correctly as warwick. There are many different ways of doing it but I wanted that oem warwick feel so Joey, Chris went the extra mile to make sure they get the secret from Warwick!
Heres the pics!! Photos really cant capture the beauty but heres the icing on the cake!!
. Not BS. It definitely sounds different. Nicer. In exactly the way you described. It's a subtle difference, but there. Oh, and the feel of the neck would make you guys weep with joy.
