Custom Shop wish list and ideas

I'm gonna stray off topic a little here, and suggest some more realy possibnilities for CS options...

How about Stereo outputs? Or maybe a balanced (XLR) output like some albemics or wal basses have? From what I hear, this really improves the DI quality on the bass....

Just a thought...Gregory? ;)
 
Going back to the hand picking of woods...

Maybe upon request, warwick could email images to the customer of the different available chunks of wood for a small upcharge?

I realise that it would be going to a lot of trouble and there is more work involved, but everyone's biggest fear is finally recieving your custom bass that you saved for and finding that beautful bubinga pommele actually looks like regular Bubinga, albeit with one of two lines of grain and no depth. You do pay £550 more for Bubinga pommele as a custom option, so you would obviously want your money's worth and a beautiful bass to last you a lifetime... right? I can guarantee that people would prefer to do this, and emailing would work perfectly for people outside Germany who cannot travel to the factory


Does that make sense?
 
catworm said:
Going back to the hand picking of woods...

Maybe upon request, warwick could email images to the customer of the different available chunks of wood for a small upcharge?

I realise that it would be going to a lot of trouble and there is more work involved, but everyone's biggest fear is finally recieving your custom bass that you saved for and finding that beautful bubinga pommele actually looks like regular Bubinga, albeit with one of two lines of grain and no depth. You do pay £550 more for Bubinga pommele as a custom option, so you would obviously want your money's worth and a beautiful bass to last you a lifetime... right? I can guarantee that people would prefer to do this, and emailing would work perfectly for people outside Germany who cannot travel to the factory


Does that make sense?
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Absolutely.

One thing great about Bubinga Pommele, is that it doesn't look "factory made" because they all look the same. On the contrary, there are so many different styles of Pommele. Indeed if you want to buy a CS Warwick, you would like to have more control in knowing what type of Pommele you're getting. This issue is one of the reasons that I have been considering a solid black high polish Thumb 5 NT: the Pommele figuring plays no role then...........
 
catworm said:
Going back to the hand picking of woods...

Maybe upon request, warwick could email images to the customer of the different available chunks of wood for a small upcharge?

I realise that it would be going to a lot of trouble and there is more work involved, but everyone's biggest fear is finally recieving your custom bass that you saved for and finding that beautful bubinga pommele actually looks like regular Bubinga, albeit with one of two lines of grain and no depth. You do pay £550 more for Bubinga pommele as a custom option, so you would obviously want your money's worth and a beautiful bass to last you a lifetime... right? I can guarantee that people would prefer to do this, and emailing would work perfectly for people outside Germany who cannot travel to the factory


Does that make sense?
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Yeah, here's a good exemple. This dude ordered his SS2 with a buckeye burl top....



this has been one of my RARE warwick wtf moment, we all know buckeye burl ain't looking like this normally.
 
Here's one of my wishes:

1 piece body for bolt on basses. Cool
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with mahogany it wouldn´t be a problem but for other tone woods it is not possible!!! And with 1 pce body you take one risk to see the stability of your instrument be in danger with time(warped phenomeon)... Then you cannot have a bookmatched body with only one piece!!!
 
Gregory said:
Here's one of my wishes:

1 piece body for bolt on basses. Cool
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with mahogany it wouldn´t be a problem but for other tone woods it is not possible!!! And with 1 pce body you take one risk to see the stability of your instrument be in danger with time(warped phenomeon)... Then you cannot have a bookmatched body with only one piece!!!
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F-bass does it with Ash. Ritter does it with (figured) Maple. And Warmoth occasionally have a 1 piece body as well (usually figured Maple). Apart from the obvious non-bookmatched result, why is it that you mention Mahogany as the only wood that would be suitable for a 1 piece body ?? Thanks. :D
 
My guess is the size of the lumber and the space between imperfections in the wood....
 
My guess is the size of the lumber and the space between imperfections in the wood....
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You´re right. with mahogany, it´s not a problem to obtain nice pieces big enough to make a 1pce body...
 
Gregory said:
My guess is the size of the lumber and the space between imperfections in the wood....
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You´re right. with mahogany, it´s not a problem to obtain nice pieces big enough to make a 1pce body...
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Wowwwwww,

good guess Jan. How on earth did you know this ?? 8)
 
JanVanHove said:
it just makes perfect sense to me...
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Mahogany trees are much bigger or something ?? Why are there less imperfections in Mahogany than in other woods...........??
 
In looks ok...................

I understand if you have a board of a highly figured wood, yes, it is tricky to be able to mark the contour of a single bass. But standard woods like Ash, Bubinga, Ovangkol, or regular Maple................I'd say you can have huge boards where you can cut many bass bodies out of them.........This is just a feeling of course. So why is Mahogany the exception I wondered........So, Mahogany has less defects you guys say............ :D
 
in a huge board of maple, for instance (well, good luck finding a huge board of maple to begin with...), you'll have splits, knots and defects which mean that you won't be able to get the whole bass in one go...

One thing to keep in mind is that warwick uses farmed woods as much as possible. This usually means slightly smaller logs than if you start chopping down old-growth forests to get a board large enough to make a bass out of a single piece of wood!

but yeah, mahogany has less defects...
 
I haven't checked out Maple trees yet, but I have seen seriously huge boards of Figured Bubinga. They appear defect free, but well, maybe a closer look will show otherwise..........Anyhow, I thought it would be doable to have a 1 piece body from Bubinga (Pommele), apart from stability issues. Check out these dudes:

Edit: I checked out some tree data, and indeed, mahogany trees are HUGE. Bubinga, Maple, Ovangkol, Ash have a trunk diametre of around 60-90 cm, whereas Mahogany has a maximum trunk diametre of about 180 cm !! This makes sense now. :D
 
ok, fair enough, you got me there... I guess it has to do with the specific lumber that Warwick uses...

(Oh, and the first picture is actually laminates, not boards...)
 
JanVanHove said:
in a huge board of maple, for instance (well, good luck finding a huge board of maple to begin with...), you'll have splits, knots and defects which mean that you won't be able to get the whole bass in one go...

One thing to keep in mind is that warwick uses farmed woods as much as possible. This usually means slightly smaller logs than if you start chopping down old-growth forests to get a board large enough to make a bass out of a single piece of wood!

but yeah, mahogany has less defects...
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I spend a lot of time wondering how future generations will judges us all in retrospect, and I somehow doubt they'll ever forgove us the destruction of of old growth forests, irresponsible use of oil reserves and massive air and water pollution.

It honestly warms my heart that warwick use farmed woods and solar power...not sure how much this matters to everyone else though?
 
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