Yup, it’s a guitar blog by a guitar player, and one of the very first things I’ve written for it is about a bass. But that’s the way it’s worked out – the most recent bit of gear to arrive at Pluckin’ A Towers is my new low-end machine. I’ve had a few over the years, only feeling able to justify one at a time since I’m not a “proper” bass player, but none have quite stuck. I had an Ibanez SR five-string which was very nice, sold that to fund an American-made Fender Dimension Bass five-string which was also very nice, but the bass I couldn’t erase from the back of my mind, over all those years, was a Warwick Thumb, and it had to be the neck-through five-string version.
So I’ve bought one of those.
The Fender sold a week or two ago, and then only a couple of days later, this beautiful example of a Thumb 5 NT appeared on Facebook Marketplace, and for a price I could actually afford having sold the Fender. Jumped on it so damn hard I almost twisted my ankle, obviously.
It turned up a few days ago and I’ve barely put it down – partly because it sounds and feels so great, and partly because it’s so heavy that lifting it off my lap to put it down is a physical effort I’m rarely willing to put myself through.
There will be a fuller review of it in due course, but for now I thought I’d just put up a nice photo or two of it. If you check out my Instagram, you can see a clip or two of it as well.
