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Warmoth Bass worth building?

#41
I love my Warmoth. I don't really care about the resale thing because I'm never selling. It's light, everything's a perfect fit, and every part of it, from the soldering to the finish to the pickguard holes was done by me.
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#42
+1 for warmoth - excellent quality, my gecko 5-string is a beautiful instrument, unique to my specs, and sounds so amazingly resonant with rich harmonics and deep deep bass, they are far better than any fender I've played. Anyone that says tone is just in the strings and the fingers does not know what they are missing.
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#44
FWIW i got my electrics in mine done by a professional here in england, as i wasn't confident in soldering, and it only cost me £55 ($90, 62 euros) which is nothing at all compared to what it cost for parts, and all of the people i know that have built warmoths, either got a professional to build it, or are completely confident in there abilites to put one together, so the amount of warmoths that are done by a foolish amateur is very little, so if the public was more in the know about basses they would know these are just as good if not better than mass produced items, and can be exactly what you want, of course i agree that a custom bass is harder to sell due to it being what 'You' wanted, not whats mass market popular, but then that should apply for boutique high end custom basses, but it doesnt, they still get there money back.
Id still suggest go warmoth if you want a bass to keep,
Very much a case of, A Warmoths not just for christmas, its for life...
Or least should be IMO.
 
#46
SolomonHelsing said:
and all of the people i know that have built warmoths, either got a professional to build it, or are completely confident in there abilites to put one together, so the amount of warmoths that are done by a foolish amateur is very little
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Things must be different in the UK. The vast majority of the people I know that play Warmoths did the work themselves, and the vast majority of them were hacks.
 
#49
smcd said:
Things must be different in the UK. The vast majority of the people I know that play Warmoths did the work themselves, and the vast majority of them were hacks.
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Nope id say im on about say maximum 10-20 people from UK including myself, a small chunk from European countries, and vast majority from USA and such. but i know there are unskilled people that put them together, but from what ive seen, i havent seen many, i mean i could be considered one of them, but ive put together the cheap parts kits from Saga a few times before, so i knew what i was doing, and took my time assembling everything but the electrics, and its all stable, working great.

Just my experience, but know other people have other experiences.
 
#53
BigOldHarry said:
I just sold a loaded Warmoth body on ebay for $300. Pickups, preamp, bridge - all top notch - cost me about $800 total. $300. VERY annoying...
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I appreciate it, Harry. I am the guy that won the auction, on ebay. I have the perfect Warmoth neck for it. It's just been waiting around my house for a great body, to go on. I will post a picture, when I get it, and get the neck on it. Thanks, again. :hyper:
 
#57
randy clere said:
They are great builds, and the woods are really nice... I have to laugh at those who say wood does not matter... come on...
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On an electric instrument; the wood's effects on the tone are insignificant.

Hell, Taylor did a test a few years back were they built a line out of plywood and other scraps and no one could tell the difference and that's on an acoustic instrument.

If anyone tells you otherwise they belong to a segment of the population that are high suggestible/susceptible to advertisement/marketing.

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#58
I mentioned I like that Tele...
What I do not understand is this. Some say Warmoths do not have a good resale value. But Warmoth sells bodies to many boutique builders and the basses from those builders resale value is quite high. Doesn't Sadowsky (among others) buy parts from Warmoth ?
 
#60
ustabawannab said:
A Fender product musta really crapped in your Cheerios one morning.

Sorry Adrenaline. I couldn't resist. When someone has a chip on their shoulder about a product, it's kinda obvious.

Regardless of how beautiful the Warmoth builds I've seen (and played) and how much better they may actually be, a seller has to be patient on TB to get any kind of good money in resale. That supports your initial point somewhat. It must be really frustrating to watch those silly uninformed Fender buyers jump on those rediculously high asking prices that are fetched weekly here in the TB classifieds. :D

The one thing that gets me though, is the folks with Warmoth builds with the Fender decal on the headstock. What's up with that?!? :rollno:

Now back to the OP. If I had 1150 to spend, I could build a Warmoth that may be better than the last 2010 MIA JB I had, but I won't know for sure until it's finished. Or I could just go to a couple of stores and try a couple of Fenders until I found one that I was pleased with (as I did with my last MIA Fender ;))
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I dont have a chip on my shoulder, im just realistic about it. Fender makes a good rpoduct, just not at their price point (for the most part).
 

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