Pics of My Warwick Phoenix

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KlausK

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My Thumb 2001 LTD was somewhere underwater for one day.



You still see some mud on the pots and the circuit board. But they are
working.



The back looks fine.



The neck is still smooth like butter!


The bubinga top took some damage, but nothing serious. I'll buff it out.



The ebony fingerboard is fine.
 
First picture pretty much says it all about the ravage,

dear oh dear...............I was just wondering; maybe you should check the space under the pickups, and some other places where there is no wax applied; maybe due to the excessive exposure to water, the wood may rot ?? It's an unusual scenario what your bass has gone through...........it would be a bummer to find out after a couple of months that your bass is rotting.........It's a good thing to read that it still works, but maybe you need to contact Warwick just in case............... :wink:
 
It doesn't look damaged at all.
I'll let her dry gently, remove the pickups and pots, and bride, etc., buff her with #0000 steelwool, and oil it. I have used Bichwood Casey Tru oil with very good results.
Feel free to email or PM me if you need more help.
 
I waxed the body and applied linseed oil on the neck & lemon oil on the fingerboard one day before the disaster happened. I guess that's why the bass didn't take a lot of water damage.

Yeah, I'll take out pickups, knobs & the bridge assembly to get rid of any trapped water. Only time will tell whether the wood will rot :?:
 
I am not a professional, I just feel that if you don't hurry to dry it, it will be ok. Let her dry gently a few days, without the hardware and electronics. Then oil her good :-) I don't think something will happen after oiling her.
 
yeah that first pic is terrible :( what a disaster, but like the others said she hasn't taken much damage and im sure we all have our fingers crossed for her recovery!

so we have two "never say die" warwicks now, one surviving a house fire, and one surviving a flood, next we need one to survive a tornado then we can proudly boast that not even all the elements can stop Warwicks kicking.
 
Do you see a dark blue plastic box around the low left side of the photo? It is my bass-care box. It has wax, oil, tools, steel wool, sand papers, polish, etc. Nothing in that box took any damage because the box was floating all the time, I guess. So, I'll be ready to take care of my Thumb.

Believe me, the basement used to be very neat & clean :)
 
KlausK said:
Do you see a dark blue plastic box around the low left side of the photo? It is my bass-care box. It has wax, oil, tools, steel wool, sand papers, polish, etc. Nothing in that box took any damage because the box was floating all the time, I guess. So, I'll be ready to take care of my Thumb.

Believe me, the basement used to be very neat & clean :)
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Hehe,

a good reason to keep your stuff in tupperware; they should make a tupperware you can fit your bass in............. :lol:
 
good luck with the repairs man :D good thing your bass is one thing less to care about :wink:
 
I havnt read all the posts yet, But if it wasn't mentioned I would also remove the neck... tuners, etc. strip it all down to just the body and neck (both detached) and let it air dry for awhile... Then apply some linseed oil or some type of oil. Actually... I would suggest teak oil as it has mineral spirirts in it. The mineral spirits make the oil thin letting it soak into the wood and once the mineral spirits evaporate the oil will harden and protect the wood.

Either way though, You are VERY VERY VERY lucky!

Warwick Tough :) Let's see a fender survive that! :P
 
I wouldn't pull the neck just yet - latent moisture would likely cause the wood to swell even more and the neck might not fit back on there without some sanding. Give it some time first and see what happens. my .02c... ~M~
 
avionix543 said:
I wouldn't pull the neck just yet - latent moisture would likely cause the wood to swell even more and the neck might not fit back on there without some sanding. Give it some time first and see what happens. my .02c... ~M~
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Just tought of that... Wonder if sticking it in front of a nice big fan would help dry it a bit sooner...
 
As long as the air going through the fan is drier than the bass, it should help. It'll take time for it to dry out completely back to the way it should be. The channel for the trussrod isn't treated with wax so there is likely some bad soakage going on in the headstock area. The connecting tubes between the electronics cavity and pickups are also raw, so the body is likely to swell a bit too. I'd pull the covers off and let it air out and, if there's a dehumidifier handy, might not be a bad idea to have it in a dry room... or a hardcase with a few of those silica gel packets in there to soak up ambient moisture. ~M~
 
I think I'd follow what Florin said and not try to force the drying process at all. Looks like the bass has not suffered too much from the ordeal, though!
 
Benedict said:
so we have two "never say die" warwicks now, one surviving a house fire, and one surviving a flood, next we need one to survive a tornado then we can proudly boast that not even all the elements can stop Warwicks kicking.
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a tornado and a rock fall...then it really would be all he elements :)

+1 on just giving the bass a few weeks of no attention to prepperly recover
 
Some of these bass disasters are reaching biblical proportions!

If anyone's bass survives a plague of boils... then I'll be really impressed! :wink:
 
saxonbass said:
Some of these bass disasters are reaching biblical proportions!

If anyone's bass survives a plague of boils... then I'll be really impressed! :wink:
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LOLL!
 
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