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Warrior Club Part 2

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Popped these two beauties in the classifieds.

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I’m writing because I want to apologize about the statement I made about Warrior. It was my mistake. I jumped in conclusion too fast. I am working on my Combat PTSD, and I sometimes i do some mistakes and this one them. I did contact with Warrior and they are a great company and always willing to go the extra mile for the customer service.
 
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JOME77 said:
Wow!
Someone is going to get some really nice Warriors!
I hate to see you sell them Chris, but I guess that it's just part of your journey.:)
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For sure! They are really, really nice instruments.
I find myself gravitating toward more traditionally designed basses these days. These Warriors aren't getting as much play time.
 
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I get it. I’ve got several friends that have migrated from modern sounding boutiques to Jazz or P Bass style basses. Some come back and some have stayed with the more traditional P and J basses.
Styles change and people do too. All part of the fun!
 
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I did my 6-month PM on my two Warriors yesterday and I've got to tell you, if you want to discover all of the construction flaws or strengths of your instrument, completely oil or polish the entire instrument and perform a thorough setup on it.
After finishing both of them, I've got to say that they are absolutely built to perfection!
I also replaced the batteries and strung them both up with a fresh set of strings.
The Quilt Maple/alder DM 5 is 1-1/2 years old, and the Walnut/alder DM 5 is 7 months old. When all was completed, the neck relief was still perfect and the intonation was too (although I did have to tweak the intonation on the Walnut/alder bass since I changed the strings from nickel RW's to EB Cobalt Flats) . Very stable instruments.

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My experiment is complete. I played another Sunday using one of my Warriors with the Ernie Ball Cobalt Flats installed (45-130).
They definitely produce clearer note definition, and the low B sounds just awesome. So smooth, warm and even, blending perfectly with the other strings.
We did a version of "Nail Scarred Hands" and I used my Hipshot Extender to tune down the B to Bb and it sounded perfect. Why did I wait so long to install the Hipshot Extender keys on my basses?
Here's a copy of "Nail Scarred Hands".

 
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p12bassnut said:
Question-
Does the String through body on the B,E make any difference as opposed to standard -at the bridge- connection ?
II haven't tried the S-T-B on mine yet but was going to get some opinions first.
Thanks
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I don’t really notice a difference stringing the E and B through. I didn’t string the Cobalt flats through and they sound great. Killer B!
 
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I performed surgery on my Walnut/Black Limba/Alder Warrior yesterday. Between the building of my Quilt Maple/Alder Warrior (2024) and the Walnut Warrior (2025), they took the active/passive feature out of the Bartolini Big Bottom preamp. While I don't play my Quilt maple Warrior in the passive mode much, I do like having it as a backup just in case of battery or preamp failure. It was fairly simple replacing the 25K pot with the 250K pot with the P/P DPST switch integral. I did have to extend one wire from the module in order to make the mod and reground several wires but that wasn't a big deal. Quite happy with the results. IMO Warrior should go back to incorporating the active/passive feature as standard in the Bartolini Big Bottom preamp.
 

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