Air Drying Wood In Germany! Framus / Warwick

I have a new dream bass: Buzzard 8 string Chrome Tone, red front and side LED. I would say it does not really matter what kind of wood would be underneath the CT finish. But I always love to see new Wicks with stunning tops!
 
They probably just have not enough room inside to store all the wood.
;-)
 
That is where they store all of the wood, in a rather large outside building to let it "season".

It's then brought in "as needed" to the kiln to dry it out to the correct % humidity. Then the wood is turned into guitars and basses :)

At least that's what our tour guide told us almost exactly 1 month ago!
 
Hardy said:
I have a new dream bass: Buzzard 8 string Chrome Tone, red front and side LED. I would say it does not really matter what kind of wood would be underneath the CT finish. But I always love to see new Wicks with stunning tops!
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Thought you already have one of those... :D
 
I don't think it will make any difference whatsoever whether the wood is stored inside or outside to dry.
The last bit in the kiln decides everything. This is why other manufacturers don't do this.

Besides that, how many warped Warwick necks have we seen so far on the forums? Quite a few.

Seasoning cut wood outside is bogus and mostly marketing.
 
DiMarco said:
I don't think it will make any difference whatsoever whether the wood is stored inside or outside to dry.
The last bit in the kiln decides everything. This is why other manufacturers don't do this.

Besides that, how many warped Warwick necks have we seen so far on the forums? Quite a few.

Seasoning cut wood outside is bogus and mostly marketing.
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I wouldn't take complaints on the forum about warped necks to be an accurate gauge of quality in Warwick basses. A lot of forum sign-ups these days are people coming here to find a solution to a problem (or to sell their Warwick) and then don't stay once they have their solution. So you will see a concentration of complaints, hence it gets magnified, and then blown out of proportion. It's like if you work in customer service, if you don't take a balanced view, you could end up thinking that your product is crap because you only ever deal with annoyed, confused or angry people.

Another example is Gibson. Were you to believe all of the posts on forums about how they are crap guitars, their headstocks break, etc, then how does the company stay in business? They have got to be doing something right. I personally have had 8 Gibsons in my life, not 1 had a warped neck, nor did any of them develop a warped neck. Personally, I have only ever seen 1 warped neck on a Gibson. I highly doubt it came out of the factory like that.

The consensus is that neck warping is caused by poor storage (too humid, too dry, too hot, too cold). I take care of my instruments, not everyone does. I've seen some destroyed guitars as well, mostly from pure neglect on the part of the owners, but also from accidents / dropped and badly repaired instruments.

I have seen tons of warped necks on acoustic guitars at car-boot sales, usually they are covered in a lot of dust form having sat in the garage or garden shed for the last 20 years in the hot, cold, humid, dry etc etc (this can also be from putting the wrong strings). That will wreak havoc on thin, spindley pieces of wood.

That being said, I'm not a wood expert, so I cannot say if ageing wood outside is good or bad for instrument making, or if it is pure marketing BS. However, were it actually a bad practice, extending the factory building in order to house the wood would be in their interest and not difficult to do, nor *that* costly in their area.
 
Hector said:
I wouldn't take complaints on the forum about warped necks to be a accurate gauge of quality in Warwick basses. A lot of forum sign-ups these days are people coming here to find a solution to a problem and then don't stay once they have their solution. So you will see a concentration of complaints, hence it gets magnified, and then blown out of proportion. It's like if you work in customer service, if you don't take a balanced view, you could end up thinking that your product is crap because you only ever deal with annoyed, confused or angry people.

Another example is Gibson. Were you to believe all of the posts on forums about how they are crap guitars, their headstocks break, etc, then how does the company stay in business? They have got to be doing something right. I personally have had 8 Gibsons in my life, not 1 had a warped neck, nor did any of them develop a warped neck. Personally, I have only ever seen 1 warped neck on a Gibson. I highly doubt it came out of the factory like that.

The consensus is that neck warping is caused by poor storage (too humid, too dry, too hot, too cold). I take care of my instruments, not everyone does. I've seen some destroyed guitars as well, mostly from pure neglect on the part of the owners, but also from accidents / dropped and badly repaired instruments.

I have seen tons of warped necks on acoustic guitars at car-boot sales, usually they are covered in a lot of dust form having sat in the garage or garden shed for the last 20 years in the hot, cold, humid, dry etc etc (this can also be from putting the wrong strings). That will wreak havoc on thin, spindley pieces of wood.

That being said, I'm not a wood expert, so I cannot say if ageing wood outside is good or bad for instrument making, or if it is pure marketing BS. However, were it actually a bad practice, extending the factory building in order to house the wood would be in their interest and not difficult to do, nor *that* costly in their area.
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I didn’t have that point of view so far. Thanks for the thoughts. And while shaking head about breaking tuners I think about another Custom Shop Warwick.
 
Hardy said:
I didn’t have that point of view so far. Thanks for the thoughts. And while shaking head about breaking tuners I think about another Custom Shop Warwick.
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Well, it's something I've seen in a lot of forum (and not only Guitar / Bass forums, try motorcycle forums...)

What's this about broken tuners?????!!!
 
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