This is something i think about often

If you were lucky enought to work for warwick i wonder if you would be allowed to build your own custom bass using their equipment and do it during your lunch break or after hours? Just not allowed to use the "W" logo. I also think what happens to all the prototype basses that are made before a new model is born or prototypes that never made it to production. Where do they go??

 

Coming from a manufacturing background in the store fixture and ready-to-assemble office furniture industry I'd say the answer to your first question would be "NO". The machines used to make these instruments and the tooling they use is not cheap and therefore are usually in production service at all times. Not to mention the risk of damage during non production times. I would not want to be the guy making personal projects if a machine went down.

To answer your other question, the prototypes probably stay in house and are kept as in house example units.

Curious to hear an official answer though.

 

yeah i get it, but you know 5 Axis wood working machine you could surly draw up your custom shape in Cad import then Bam!! ha ha. I know this is most likely pipe dreams but imagine!! ha ha Next day at your lunch break do a bit of hand sanding, get all the components at staff price, theres a whole pile of Necks kicking around.. Perfect!

I would move to Germany to work at Warwick.

Hey Hans, PM me.

 

I think early prototypes might be (partly) hand built since you can then make decisions and adjustments as you go. I might be wrong though, maybe I'm an oldfashioned geezer.

 

Does Warwick need any IT personnel?

 

Whatever happened to Alexander???

 

At my plant, even though we have more specialty equipment which wouldn't be of much use for personal matters to most, the answer would still be no. Too much liability in letting someone use it for non-company approved work. In the event something went wrong, something broke, someone got injured, it would cause all sorts of legal issues. I would assume most companies are like ours in that there are policies written explicitly forbidding improper/personal use of company equipment.

On top of that, as stated previously as well, I'm sure if your job was to build a bass all day, no matter how enjoyable that may be, when it's time for a break you'll want to take that break. Even if you're working on stuff like that at home, you don't do it 100% of the time. You take breaks as you work.

 

Pausing a production line in any big factory costs a fortune. For that price you could get Jens Ritter to build you half a dozen of anything that takes your fancy. & Mr. Ritter does not work cheap.


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