Absolutely beautiful! Gotta love those early warwicks. Dotted fretboard and all. Can you post some picks from the back side too?

Its funny cause just literally now Im playing my thumb nt5 after some truss rod tweaking.

Congrats for your new bass!

I think I saw this listed at eBay Kleinanzeigen. Beautiful, and awesome find. Price was fair too IIRC. Congrats!

Damn easy to see how far I got:

Nice job, what did you use on the frets?
I always use these pads, from Thomann. I start with the coarse ones (lightly) and work my way up to 12000 grit. Pretty happy with the results usually, but I'd like to try rubber polishing pads for a change because they don't flex as much as these thin micromesh pads.

This was my '01 Streamer LX when I bought it (top) and after I finished with it (bottom) and had thoroughly cleaned and oiled up the fingerboard.

Wow!! Stunning!! Maybe the oldest ‘wick on here? ....(pauses for a while in case Carmine pulls a Nobby Meidel from behind the couch). It looks so fresh. I’ve no idea how the “.....Western Germany” printing on your control cavity cover lasted so well. On my ‘95 Fortress, it’s almost worn off, and you have 5 years on mine.... totally magic!

Side note: My side dots totally disintegrated (looked like thin mother of pearl type material), but I was able to snag some of the rod style replacement material from Stu Mac that was really easy to fit and finish, so if you find that happening to you, it’s an easy fix.

I have pure blues on both my $$ and fortress FWIW....

That's Bubinga, right? I'm a big fan of it, especially the quilted look... am also partial to Wenge, which I know Warwick used frequently... If you look at my Avatar, the top is quilted Bubinga, with Rosewood fretboard, the back is Africa Limba, and the neck is Wenge/Maple... not trying to hijack, but here is the wood on my custom bass...

FWIW I’ve always had great service and communication with Warwick. I used to order parts from the Nashville shop, but when that source dried up, I ordered a bunch from Germany. Funnily enough, Warwick sent me a satisfaction survey after ordering the parts, and Hans replied to the survey response personally. Not only that, but his wife helped me out with my parts needs..totally cool. Also, all of my tech questions in the past were dealt with by Marcus, who I learnt afterwards handles all of the custom builds for their pro artists..

I wanted to share a bit of Hans’ reply:

... thanks for your mail and what you are saying.. well my entire family has a passion
to the company and even my son is already working in the company in the floors as
he has to learn from the scratch and my daugher study`s and comes later back to
the company.. yes in a lot of fields we are honored about what we have or that
we can do what we do.. and yes you have to be open minded and fair all other...
doing lefthands without upcharge was all the time normal for me even it makes
more work or cost a some times a lot more with the parts but to be fair to everyone
it is a part of the business.

Even our buisness is terrible hard to stay on the top against such big companys
like Fender, Gibson or others... it is not only money why we do it..

So thanks for your passion again and as I said.. hopefully we can win you
one day in the future for a new custome shop / masterbuilt bass again.

All the best

Framus & Warwick GmbH & Co Music Equipment KG
H.P.Wilfer 16.07.2019, 19:05