Guitarlopnik (Warwick Edition)

"UserNotFound" (jalopnik2) 01/03/2015 at 15:16 • Filed to: None

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I know there are some musicians on Oppo, so I thought I would share my latest bass guitar acquisition. I wandered in to a music store a couple days ago and left with a 2000 Warwick Streamer Standard 5. I think it's one of the last generations of the Streamer Standard made in the Fatherland and she's a real beaut. Pine body, ovangkol neck, wenge fretboard, passive humbuckers, and bronze frets. It has a fantastic woody growl to it and plays beautifully.

I have wanted a Warwick bass for years but typically the German-made ones (the ones worth having) are around the same price as a decent used Miata which is more than I wanted to spend on a guitar (or a Miata).

Anyway I'm off to play some music now.

TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts > UserNotFound 01/03/2015 at 15:23

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Nice find! This reminded me that i need to get my wood out of the Kiln for #3

This was my first build. I think it turned out OK.

UserNotFound > TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts 01/03/2015 at 15:28

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Wow that's pretty awesome. I love the metallic finish. I've always wanted to build a guitar. Someday, perhaps.

TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts > UserNotFound 01/03/2015 at 15:31

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Thanks man. The colour is actually a factory shade from a 2005 Mazda. Seriously. Also, if you do build one, keep the inlay simple. Don't spend three weeks on it.

Se7inhand > UserNotFound 01/03/2015 at 15:43

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I have always wondered why bass guitars tend to have have such an exaggerated upper horn.

saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars > TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts 01/03/2015 at 16:14

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I've always loved the Starcaster so I used the money I should have spent on food to get one.

Here's one of my cats curled up with my Jaguar. This guitar is in a much different form now.

This is the guitar body I made for a custom job I've been tooling around with for a couple years on and off.

I made a Starcaster-style headstock that I was going to spraypaint in the colors of the Capitol Records label, but it didn't set right, so I decoupaged it, too. Right now I'm trying to figure out how my friend wired it and what he was really trying to do, but I have no idea what's up there.

I have one of these, too. It's a Fender JA-90 and it's amazing.

And this is a Hondo II Competition Mustang that looks pretty much just like mine except I swapped the original tuners for some locking tortoiseshell ones I had lying around.

2nd-to-last, I got one of the red Gretsch CVT IIIs from the OK Go video for Needing/Getting.

This is my first parts guitar, being played at a soundcheck two or three years ago. It's a mahogany LP body from Warmoth (but really Craigslist) and a Tele neck off of my first Squier Tele. It's a great neck, but someone at a music camp dropped the Tele on a curb and the body split in two. The neck was salvageable, my heart is still broken.

As you can tell, I work a lot and spend all of my money on guitar gear. In the background of that last picture you can see the speaker cabinet I built myself out of 1/8" furniture ply and MDF.

TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts > saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars 01/03/2015 at 16:21

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Kick ass man. I love P90s and teles. Mine, the Kingcaster, is a one peice alder body, maple neck, rosewood fretboard. Pretty standard. Dimarzio Airclassic pickups an old Godan bridge, and both pickups wired for Triple sound. Series, parallel and single coil.

saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars > TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts 01/03/2015 at 16:31

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P90s and Teles are my favorite. That Mustang is my number one right now, but I swapped some Seymour Duncan P90s in there. Actually, the same ones that are in the JA-90. The JA-90 is a fair bit bassier and rounder than the Mustang, so I swap those out during my band's set. It's nice because the JA-90's best songs are the 1/2-step down and standard ones, and since I play more chord-y rhythm parts I can just capo. The Mustang sees a lot of drop-D, DADGAD and DADF#AD and occasionally DADFAD. The Kingcaster sounds like it's a screamer! What sort of finish is on it?

ddavidn > UserNotFound 01/03/2015 at 16:50

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I love these! Nice find.

UserNotFound > Se7inhand 01/03/2015 at 17:04

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The neck is heavier and longer so the horn is extended to get the strap farther out to keep it balanced. That's my theory.

TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts > saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars 01/03/2015 at 17:24

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Its an acrylic high build primer underneath, to fill and seal the grain, then over top is a plain old automotive base-clear. It had three coats of a Mazda colour that a friend mixed up with some extra pearl and flake, and then seven coats of clear on top. All the stuff I used were Nason products, and I was using a really old Devilbiss siphon feed paint gun I borrowed.

saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars > TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts 01/03/2015 at 21:04

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Wow, that's pretty Jalop!

TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts > saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars 01/04/2015 at 01:18

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Thanks man. I dont have any pictures of the second guitar, but it was more or less the same shape, with an all maple neck and a black ash body, no paint, just a clear lacquer. And some really nice vintage single coil tele pups.

Se7inhand > UserNotFound 01/04/2015 at 14:08

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Sounds perfectly valid to me. Thanks.