I was tour guide this week. With fifteen readers of our magazine we visited the Warwick factory and Framus museum... All pretty girls:D If you want pics. just tell. ;D ;D ;D
I thought posting photos of pretty girls was universally accepted and welcomed!
:)
For people with facebook:
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Thanks for the link! Cool pics indeed and very pretty girls. I think I even saw some basses in a few of the photos.
Seriously, I liked that photo of unfinished neck-thrus!
They look like Bo Diddley models:)
As strange coincidence I walked into a guy in a restaurant. We started to talk and he turned out to be a guy from Tomastik-Infeld, who was visiting some musical conference nearby. He will get me some strings:)
Thanks, Chris.
Quote from: Chris P. on May 06, 2013, 11:58:33 AM
As strange coincidence I walked into a guy in a restaurant. We started to talk and he turned out to be a guy from Tomastik-Infeld, who was visiting some musical conference nearby. He will get me some strings:)
Yer a dog Chris ;D
Did you play that Alpine Horn?
I'm the only one in the house with no account... :rolleyes:
I can send some pics?
I didn't play the horn. I do want one;)
I can imagine... ;)
(Naked necking...?)
Quote from: Denis on May 06, 2013, 10:20:11 AM
I thought posting photos of pretty girls was universally accepted and welcomed!
no Mark pictures please
Quote from: HERBIE on May 06, 2013, 12:30:56 PM
I'm the only one in the house with no account... :rolleyes:
No, you're not. I too am one of the Facebook-less ones.
And I now realize what I've been seeing randomly for about a week. I was thinking, "where is he finding all these girl bass players?"
:D
I will post some pics soon!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHZ-GOwC8cQ
Girls and wood...
They do come to grips with it, obviously.
:D
Such a clean facility. Some great pictures there. It must of been a horrible trip for you.
The QR code reader in the truss rod cavity is an amazing innovation.
Yep, it's quite a strange factory. In first place there's the wood storage with woods sometimes 20 years old. Wood will be there for three to five years at least before being used. Then it's also a lot of handwork with crafts(wo)men, who select all woods for necks and bodies. Really old fashioned, but in the other way computers are used to check the humidity of the woods.
After that it's CNC routers galore. The QR has all information about the bass, so they know which radius, colour, hardware colour, pickups et cetera to use. The neck machine is amazing. It can make any radius you want. It installs frets and it PLEKs. The fret slots are not through the whole width of the neck, but it are slots. So a bit of wood is left on every side of the slot. It makes the neck even stiffer (Warwick players like that) and you don't see and feel fret edges.
After CNC it's hand labour again, with sanding, finishing and installing electronics and hardware.
Lacquering is quite cool too. It's ultra thin and with some help of UV lighting you can touch the finish ten seconds after spraying.