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Warwick Star II ... wow!

#64
17.5 and 18 are only half a milimeter apart. Considering that the D string stays where it was, moving outer strings to have 18mm spacing leaves you having B and G only 1mm farther from the D than setting it to 17.5mm spacing. And that's on the bridge; at 12th fret it would be 0.5mm, at 24th fret 0.75mm. The fretboard will accomodate that easily, unless you've got some really sloppy fretting hand technique. It's been done many times (also by myself on the Streamer LX5 that I've owned for a while) and discussed to death on the Warwick forum.
 
#66
Avezzano said:
If you look with attention at the picture (I posted it earlier), you can tell it right away: you can move the little slotted saddle-in-the-saddle sideways (and lock them with the hex bolt) to satisfy any spacing need!

Here it is to you again:
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That's what I was trying to say when I left the measurements earlier. Center of B string to center of G is 2 5/8.
 
#67
Marihino said:
17.5 and 18 are only half a milimeter apart. Considering that the D string stays where it was, moving outer strings to have 18mm spacing leaves you having B and G only 1mm farther from the D than setting it to 17.5mm spacing. And that's on the bridge; at 12th fret it would be 0.5mm, at 24th fret 0.75mm. The fretboard will accomodate that easily, unless you've got some really sloppy fretting hand technique. It's been done many times (also by myself on the Streamer LX5 that I've owned for a while) and discussed to death on the Warwick forum.
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Good to know, cheers.
 
#68
Jaibeau,
how could this bass handle being the only one? I have to admit I developed a massive GAS for it. Of course being a semi-hollow it must have a specific voice, but would it pull off some more generic J-ish or P-ish sounds to be able to replace a solid body multi-purpose 5-string bass?
 
#69
lomo said:
Thanks! This is exactly the info I was looking for, although it completely sucks that noone from Warwick answered my emails.
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That's BC UsMusicCorp bought Warwick. Even when I was getting mine, they didn't know a lot about them. I don't even know how you get them. Mine is serial #2....I actually got the one that was on the wall at namm 2011-
 
#70
Marihino said:
Jaibeau,
how could this bass handle being the only one? I have to admit I developed a massive GAS for it. Of course being a semi-hollow it must have a specific voice, but would it pull off some more generic J-ish or P-ish sounds to be able to replace a solid body multi-purpose 5-string bass?
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That's whats great about it. It doesn't have as hollow of a sound. Like not as "thuddy" but does have a more organic mid tone than a typical jazz or P. the pups are single coil so you do get more of a jazz tone but the growl of a P due to the hollow body. It's more focused though I think in part because it's a Warwick. But yes, you could "only" use this to achieve a general sound.
 
#71
awesome! I happen to move between two or three countries several times a year due to work stuff, and I like to just have two basses (one of them being fretless) so I can have all of them with me and just take them in my car. And I like to love my bass, but my current one... not so much, even though it's great. I fell for this Star Bass...
 
#72
curious, has anyone confirmed if the pickups and hardware (bridge and such) is the same on the korean version?

i've owned alot of hollow bodied basses, including all varieties of guilds and dearmonds, and these basses sound the best and most versatile to my ears.

here's another youtube demo i found that isn't on this thread, and nearly all fingerstyle with some harmonics ala jaco:

another warwick stab bass II demo
 
#73
i broke down and bought one of these from an ebay dealer and received it on thursday. very impressed so far. construction, hardware, finish and pickups all seem great with no issues. for a passive bass with what is said to be single coil pickups, i'm very happy how hum free they are even with individual pickups solo'ed.

as shown in the youtube videos posted in this thread, both pickups sound good solo'ed or blended. the decay isn't as fast as some hollow or semi-hollow basses i've owned, but the sustain isn't as long as a solid body either. i find the tones very balanced but dynamic, just what i was hoping for.

i'm not a fan of the huge frets on this bass, but sure i'll get used to them. the factory setup was good. not great, but good and playable with no real issues.

i'm told they don't sell a case for this model, and they also apparently won't sell the cases from the more expensive star basses separately. this is annoying, but it appears the epiphone jack casady bass case will fit and i've order one. we'll see...

hope this rant helps someone interested in these basses...

tony
 
#75
thanks!

i got mine in sunburst

the flamed maple top and back is really nice. the top has decent book matching as well. a nice touch is that the back of the body and neck is also finished nicely.

my only minor and selfish criticism is that i wish it had smaller fret wire. and i'm likely the minority in that opinion.

all in all, i'm very happy with this bassso far, and for me, i find it a better and more versatile bass than any of my previous hollow or semi-hollow body basses. these include a vintage guild starfire with bisonics, a ri guild starfire with dark stars, dearmond starfire with dark stars, lakland skyline hollows with both barts and chisonics, epiphone jack casady, fender a/e precision, old epiphone semi-hollow, old kay howling wolf, fritz kay howling wolf ri, hofner german ri club, an ibanez semi-hollow, and i'm sure i'm forgetting something. obviously, i've owned too many... i do have a hofner icon club that i'll be keeping because it does it's one thing very well and at a great value.
 

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