Just Arrived Today #2 Warrior

thumbslam · **Posted:** March 29th, 2011, 10:26 pm

I had to wait a while for this one. Here are a few picks of B-eye

Well this is #2 Warrior Signatures for me. Air dried 45 year old swamp ash body with sick buck-eye burl top, knobs, pickup covers, matching headstock. Sugar rock quarter sawn maple neck with Purple Heart stiffening strip. Birds-eye maple board with rare Brazilian rosewood blocks. 18 volt custom Bartolini preamp stacked oversized J at the bridge and a fatty MM style front pickup.

Frets are incredibly crowned just absolutely amazing. Action is super low but does not bottom out anywhere. Less than 9 LB for sure I have to weigh it later. Just a masterpiece of craftsmanship and amazing thick huge tone. I am speechless over this one. It’s just wood porn by all standards. Freaking mother of pearl cover where the neck goes into the body really cool.

thumbslam · **Posted:** March 29th, 2011, 10:27 pm

Couple more...Sorry for the dark pics it's late here.

Frenchy-Lefty · **Posted:** March 29th, 2011, 10:59 pm

Stunning! Congrat on your new bass!

blankrider · **Joined:** July 5th, 2010, 3:00 pm **Posts:** 269

oh dear god
:shock:

If you ever wanna sell that locally, hit me up first haha

fivebass52 · **Posted:** March 30th, 2011, 4:10 am

That is drop-dead f-ing gorgeous! And that's all I'm going to say.....

Addison · **Joined:** June 15th, 2009, 8:03 am **Posts:** 1341

HOLY SHIT!!!

Congrats man... I know that was a long wait, but it looks like it was worth it.

Basshappi · **Joined:** March 14th, 2008, 2:28 pm **Posts:** 965

Holy Toledo!!
That is absolutely stunning! Congratulations big time!

I have always wondered about that pickup config, need sound clips ASAP!

Cheers!

AzWhoFan · **Joined:** March 14th, 2008, 10:57 am **Posts:** 2866

My gawd man, that is absolutly killer.

Wood porn indeed!!!

Jules1 · **Posted:** March 30th, 2011, 10:53 am

Wow !!! Congrats !!!

Lefty007 · **Joined:** March 12th, 2008, 5:13 pm **Posts:** 770

Congrats! That really is a piece of art.

gravesbass · **Posted:** March 30th, 2011, 3:45 pm

Thats a beautiful piece of art, man..... Um, should I ??

Naw, i'll get to mine later. Let people drool on this one. :shock:

frankenjazz · **Joined:** July 31st, 2009, 1:21 am **Posts:** 232

i love the look of that top it looks like some sort of exotic Italian marble, does it do anything for tone or is it purely for looks?

thumbslam · **Posted:** March 30th, 2011, 9:38 pm

So I do have two of these basses with same pickup configuration and electronics. My number one has same ash body but wenge Purple Heart neck and quilt maple top and ebony fingerboard. This bass is same ash body and maple neck, maple board so I thought it was going to be more snappy, aggressive and bright and could possibly loose low warm round bottom.

This is totally not the case. It has way more warmth and solid lows as well as more treble end snap. I can’t help but thing the burl top which is soft sort of helps mellow the tone of all the maple. Now this could all be mumbo jumbo mental crazies but I will try and do some sound samples. I wish I had Addison’s expertise in that area but I will try and figure something out to post. I don’t have my interface anymore to work with Sonar on my computer but I might have something in the works here really soon.

QU!CK · **Joined:** September 18th, 2008, 6:20 am **Posts:** 30

thumbslam wrote:

So I do have two of these basses with same pickup configuration and electronics. My number one has same ash body but wenge Purple Heart neck and quilt maple top and ebony fingerboard. This bass is same ash body and maple neck, maple board so I thought it was going to be more snappy, aggressive and bright and could possibly loose low warm round bottom.

This is totally not the case. It has way more warmth and solid lows as well as more treble end snap. I can’t help but thing the burl top which is soft sort of helps mellow the tone of all the maple. Now this could all be mumbo jumbo mental crazies but I will try and do some sound samples. I wish I had Addison’s expertise in that area but I will try and figure something out to post. I don’t have my interface anymore to work with Sonar on my computer but I might have something in the works here really soon.

No sense in having 2 of them right? I'm on the east coast too so I'll just swing by and take the old warrior "beater bass" off your hands :mrgreen:

blankrider · **Joined:** July 5th, 2010, 3:00 pm **Posts:** 269

QU!CK wrote:

thumbslam wrote:

So I do have two of these basses with same pickup configuration and electronics. My number one has same ash body but wenge Purple Heart neck and quilt maple top and ebony fingerboard. This bass is same ash body and maple neck, maple board so I thought it was going to be more snappy, aggressive and bright and could possibly loose low warm round bottom.

This is totally not the case. It has way more warmth and solid lows as well as more treble end snap. I can’t help but thing the burl top which is soft sort of helps mellow the tone of all the maple. Now this could all be mumbo jumbo mental crazies but I will try and do some sound samples. I wish I had Addison’s expertise in that area but I will try and figure something out to post. I don’t have my interface anymore to work with Sonar on my computer but I might have something in the works here really soon.

No sense in having 2 of them right? I'm on the east coast too so I'll just swing by and take the old warrior "beater bass" off your hands :mrgreen:

you'll have to beat me too it ^_^

Bassaria · **Posted:** April 1st, 2011, 1:57 pm

banging dude. bring it by the watt and shand building (center square) tonight...got a gig there....; )
be happy to watch ya play it and drool.
still got to make that local hang....

bajito · **Posted:** June 10th, 2011, 4:48 am

Amazing woods ! but I would fear to gig out with this instrument... a stratch can come quickly ... !

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