That's part of the business model that seems to have served Adrian and bass owners well.
I guess anything can be criticized.
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That's part of the business model that seems to have served Adrian and bass owners well.
I guess anything can be criticized.
How long would it normally take Adrian to reply email?
Still very excited to get his reply after 48hrs
I reached out to him last week about something he was checking into and mentioned he was going to be out of town till Wednesday (tomorrow).
Oh! That make perfect sense.
Since I heard Adrain is always up on email reply
Let see if I can get my crazy build
I've been wanting to say this, but hadn't yet, so I will. I would hate to see what has happened to Warmoth happen to Maruszczyk. At least half of what people put together using Warmoth parts are absolute train wrecks, and of course people sell these trainwrecks 6mos. after creating them, probably to create another trainwreck. I believe strongly that this affects resale (and reputation). This hasn't happened yet with Maruszczyk, although some of the mods I see (ash trays, etc.) don't really match the sharp European aesthetic, imo. Adrian's creations all look great to me, and if people stay close to that, I think that's best for the brand, although I don't expect it to happen. That said, I think resale is pretty decent so far, but if you start seeing a lot of goofy designs, it may go the way of Warmoth. Standard disclaimers, but that's what I think.
A peculiar configuration of a product will have a smaller market--seems that point is settled. I'd add that 'peculiar' can be a fast-moving target. I haven't seen a Maruszczyk that's weirder than an Ibanez EHB1005SMS, and those are easy to sell. Maruszczyk like Kiesel have been anticipating this market--so the 'peculiar' bass builders now seem to be doing very very well and changing the game for other builders. During COVID, every object with strings sold like crazy, so the next era of bass production and sales will contend with whatever post-pandemic life turns out to be, but it won't revert to the old days when wierd, boutique basses were easy to identify and were purchased only by weird, hobbyist, fancy-pants amateurs. Now, it seems like the guitar business increasingly revolves around weird, homebound, fancy-pants amateurs. The lunatics are taking over the asylum. Join the club!
The Cazpars (and others) are peculiar, but that's part of the aesthetic I was referring to. It works. What I'm talking about are the bizarre mishmash Warmoths you see around, ALOT. There is no cohesive aesthetic. Car analogy warning, but to stay non-specific, I'm thinking in terms of putting chrome-dome hubcaps on a Aston Martin Valkyrie. It's not unusual, it's just wrong. I know personal preference can't be wrong, etc. etc. but sometimes...it just is. I have a Maruszczyk, for what it's worth, so I'm in that club, but I guess not this one ;-)
Very good point. I haven't sold any of my Maruszczyk's yet, but if I do I'll make sure to find a market price in a few weeks. It's never taken me more than about a month to find a market price. If I don't like it I pull the listing. Some sellers just leave their aspirational prices on the market for month after month (e.g. like many ebay bass listings).
That is not good for a builder. It's better for the brand to sell at a price that gets it quickly into the hands of someone who will keep it.
As a defender of myself and other Maruszczyk modifiers here, I'd have to say that almost all the mods I've seen are tasteful and well-thought-through--I've copied some of the ideas.
Why on earth would it be your "chief concern" if you have no intention of buying one? What the heck are you concerned about?
I'm on my 4th build.
Sold the other 3. One because it was fretless, another because it was 30", another because it had 5 strings.
Each one took a month, or so, to sell.
Shipped 2 to England (pre-brexit) and the other to The Netherlands. It's almost impossible to sell a bass other than Squier or Epiphone in my country.
I don't understand this post. At all. In what way is Warmoth suffering? What way have they gone? What "has happened" to Warmoth? You don't like what some people create with Warmoth products, OK fine. You are completely entitled to that opinion. But everybody including you is entitled to like what they like, and they owe nobody any explanations for it.
That same variety of tastes that the collective group of Warmoth customers use to order parts is also used, by Maruszczyk customers, to order a wide variety of different basses in accordance with different aesthetics. Not all of them look equally good to me. (My personal opinion is that no color that can be found on a toilet from the 20th century should be on a bass.) I'm quite sure that the people who ordered basses I don't particularly like will look at mine and think it's at least a little weird. And that's fine. You opinion seems to be that if enough people order ugly basses, then Maruszczyk as a company will suffer. There's no interpretation I can think of that has any logic to it. Warmoth certainly isn't suffering the way you seem to think they are.
Obviously, not everybody agrees with me. And that's fine. Sometimes someone gets a bass with those colors and in spite of my preferences, I like the result (usually because there's black hardware on it).this one belongs in a "best of…" list somewhere
I was going to take offense because most toilets are white. But I get it now, in my defense I did add additional black accents..lol.
I see you've swapped out the gray carbon fiber for Black, I think they both look great on that bass it's a cool shape.
The Grey wasn't working for me, the black Carbon Fiber is always my favorite and fits this bass much better.
. . .unless it's a $15,000 vintage fender, with cracks in the finish and rusted original parts.this one belongs in a "best of…" list somewhere
Now you've got me thinking about a carbon fiber toilet seat. Darn you.
Sorry, I thought it was obvious I was talking about resale, which is awful for Warmoth. Doesn't affect Warmoth's bottom line at all, of course, but I would rather Maruszczyk be held in high esteem. I'm not going to call the cops, it's just a preference.
