Warrior Signature

2006 American made Warrior Signature Four string 34" scale Neck through body. Solid Mahogany wings with a three peice mahogany/purpleheart/mahogany neck (all wood is claimed to have been aged for 80 years). Wenge fretboard and Ebony headstock veneer with abolone sword inlay at twelth fret and abolone warrior logo on headstock. 24 frets. Bartolini MM/neck and Jazz/bridge pickups. Black and Gold hardware. E string can switch between body through and bridge for extended sustain. Custom Audere 18v preamp was added by the retailer to replace the bartolini. Master Volume, pickup pan, tone and gain/treble knobs. Two switches. One is frequency cut and boost. The other was added to add two different levels of compression for slap/pop. This thing was designed to be my funk/jazz one stop shop. not sure what kind of bridge this is but it is solid. Neutrick locking input system. recessed dunlop straplocks. Has the Warrior annointed oil finish. oh and a little light that turns blue or red when you plug the input it depending on battery life.

This was a custom piece by the boutique I bought it from. They retro fitted the audere system. I play funk, jazz, rock and prog and this thing fits all my needs. It has a darker sound that is full and has no intensity gaps with all the selectors are at zero. I play through an ampeg cabinet with a 700 watt firebass head. I likes the sounds. It has compression, and when you boost the mids and turn the pan to the jazz pickup it sounds like a jazz bass. I have a pedal that has a fretless setting, so all my basses (get it?:)are covered. Cannot wait to get it into the studio but on stage it is a monster.

The action I had to tweak a little. What got me about this bass is that the right hand action is so low to the body. I have played MTDs that are like that and love it. The neck is almost assymetrical, and has a slender profile. Some people who consider themselves "purists" might not like these types of actions. No beef there, just to each his own. The tech who did the retrofit took good care of it. However the finish at the factory was not done well. This was originally a NAMM display model, so there is no telling how many hands have played it. It has stood up to the use but I think they rushed that aspect of it because of that fact so points deducted for a few uneven finish areas, mostly on the back of the neck and nothing absurdly aweful

The hardware is good. It is very durable, I feel good taking it out to clubs and on the road. The finish appears like it will last and has stood up to the abuse of conventioners....the strap buttons are recessed so, you know...sweet. I have had it a little under a month and the truss rod had to be adjusted once when I got it but not subsequently. I would never gig without a backup, what if this thing catches fire or explodes?

Lifetime warranty on crafstmanship but voided on the electronics. I have e-mailed and called Warrior and never gotten a single response...that annoys me. I got a pretty certificate and all that but nothing in the way of real communication...if I needed to have the warranty honored I wonder how it would go...

I have owned and played numerous other basses in tweleve years I have been playing bass. This is the nicest sounding and playing bass I have owned and one of the nicest I have played out of Pedulla, MTD, Tobias, Fodera, Modulus ect.. I do not consider Warwick to be on the same level...but Warrior is, They just need to get with the program with regards to how they treat customers. It was appraised at 3,500. I got it as a first owner for a fraction of that price. For what I paid I think I got a great deal. I could always get it refinished if it needed. I have been told by a few people Warrior has taken short cuts in the past few years on a lot of thier pieces as far as a quality of materials. I think this was fortunate to have missed that but the finish was rushed or done by someone with little experiance. I will still have to give it a ten for sound and playability (all that matters to me)because of the price, which is claimed to have been lowered so drastically because of a scratch on the twelfth fret which appears to be nothing more than a character of the wood or a spot where the finish is lighter. I was pensive because of that, but this things has not failed me so

My Signature is a double cut with a mahogany body and an unbelivable carved spalted maple top with matching head! The neck is 3 pieces purple heart, mahogany and ebony. All of the woods are considered ancient tone woods. All hardware is gold: locking Sperzels, 5 way rotary, tone and volume knobs (all counter sunk) and acoustic pizo bridge. The inlays are abalone boxes with diagonal mother of pearl stripes and a sword on the 12th fret. The warrior logo on the head is in mother of pearl. The neck has medium frets and is set and comes with a scaloped neck heal. It has a pair of black back Symour Duncan humbuckers on it. Comes with Duncan strap locks.

This guitar is a Dream! It is so sweet it it is unbelievable. Sustains to forever! I play hard rock, blues and metal. It is so versatile! It is the by far the best sounding guitar I have ever owned! I have owned and played US and Jap Strats, Teles, Hagstrom, Les Pauls and other Gibsons, Ibanez and a variety of other guitars. This one is by far the King! Nothing else even comes close!

Perfect right from the get go! Just plug her in tune and Lookout!!

Everything on this baby is premium. I bought it new and have never had a problem with it - ever! Everything is solid! I would gig without a backup, but I don't!

Never needed repair. Lifetime warranty. I talked with JD while it was being built. They really involved me in everything. Selection of the top, the pickups - everything! These guys go more than the extra mile to please! Friendly, easy to get along with!

I have been playing for more than 30 years. I own a Mesa Boogie IIB 100 watt tube amp and use a Digitech GNX 4 for effects. My backup is a Ibanez Custom ARX 500. The Warrior is my all time favorite quitar. Everyting is just perfect! I compared this to McNaught, McInturf, PRS and other custom shop stuff. Warrior was and is the best!

This is a Warrior Signature solid body. The color is Bronze. It has BArtolini pickups, Piezo bridge pickup system, 3 piece neck, recessed Straploks, Sperzel locking tuners, 24 frets, 5 way selector switch, Hardshell case, leather guitar strap. Excellent features and hardware.

The Bartolini's are awesome. As good or better than any humbuckers I've heard. I was quite surprised. I did not think they would sound so good. The Piezo is disappointing. It is hyped to "soundlike an acoustic"....when it just sounds like a electric guitar with a little fuller sound( but not for use with distortion) I give it a 9 only because the Piezo is not so great. It IS useable though for clean sounds.

Action =good. Fit = excellent Finish= excellent

Action was adjusted low. I had to raise it a bit because I do strum and it would cause slight buzz. No problem though. A fantastic neck.

I don't play live.I am a PC musician. I use preamps, effects and software. This guitar sounds awesomeStrap buttons are solid.

Excellent support. God bless Warrior!!

Great guitar. I would buy it again.

2004 Warrior Signature Soldier 6-string guitar. 24 frets. Solid quilted maple top with classic brown sunburst. One volume, one tone, 5-way switch. Two Seymour Duncan SH-1 59s. The body is 80+ year old mahogany. The neck is 80+ year old mahogany with 100+ year old pupleheart strip. The bridge is a recessed locking hardtail. The tailstop system is a unique Warrior only design. The neck profile reminds me of an Ibanez Wizard II. 25.1" scale. Sperzel locking tuners and a bone nut. Gold hardware. The case is the TKL alligator skin case.

The guitar has a brighter sound than I expected. I play through a Soldano HotRod 50+ and a Pender Prosonic most every day. It is a little noisy in positions 2 and 4 because the coils are tapped to achieve a single coil sound. Lots of variety here. The tone knob helps control the brightness perfectly.

I have no clue how it was set up at the factory. The fit and finish is flawless. The balance of the instrument is perfect. The top is wonderful. The real wood knobs matching the top is a nice addition. The gold pickup rings are tarnished, but this always happens to me.

So far so good. It weighs about 6.5lb which is light for a mahogany body. I think it will last. The straplocks are recessed into the body so you must use Dunlop locks. I depend on it every evening. I alway have my backup.

Nice people, very talkative. No repairs needed. Lifetime warranty. I am not Christian, but they don't care.

Just a wonderful instrument all the way around. I own a Guild Bluesbird, Parker Nitefly, Difiance Syraph, RainSong WS1000...etc. This is my favorite guitar over all. I prefer the playability of the Parker, but the Warrior has much more pleasent tone.

The workmanship is my favorite thing. Just great all around for the price I paid.

I own a 1997 Warrior Studio six-string fretless bass. It was a demo from the NAMM show, so it had been played a few times, but looked like new. I has a body core of Mahogany with a Spalted Sycamore top. The Sycamore is also the jack plate material! Sweet! The neck-through core is Purpleheart with Maple and Mahogany laminates. The fingerboard is also Purpleheart witch provides a very tough fretless surface. This bass uses a dual truss rod system that makes setup a breeze. The pickups are Basslines soapbars and the electronics are a 3 band 9 volt Basslines system with a very cool pull/boost feature on the volume knob. The hardware is gotoh with a nice chrome finnish. Recessed straplock buttons and as always the "G-Factor" stringing system round off the Warrior package.

The sound? Swell. No joke! The sound swells out of this bass. If you've ever played fretless, you know about swell. I like to call it the blossom point or the "mwha" sound. Very woody in tone, but a can add snap, growel, gritt or butter just by my right hand playing position. It needs very little tweaking at all in the eq section unless I want to cut the mids a little. Great for fingerstyle, pick or slap. Slap, though I use it only occasionally, sounds fat on this fretless instrument. Very strange indeed. Bye the way, this is the only bass I use; I works for everything: pop, rock, metal, punk, jazz, latin, big band, blues, gospel, polka, etc. Yes, I said fretless punk. My three main bands are Be Bop Jazz, Rock and Blues styles. From a 300 beat per minute jazz burner to good old three chord rock, this bass fits the bill with money to spare.

The action on this bass is medium-low. On fretless you want all of the strings buzz musically for lack of a better term. Not the nasty "splang!" buzz, but a very mild sizzle. Light guage strings with a contact core work the best too. The dual truss rod makes the setup very easy.

The electronics are great. Totally silent! The rear pickup was a bit low, for my taste anyway, but a few turns of the screws and we were in business. The Bass/Treble stacked knob is a bit taller than the others was ever-so-slightly bent during shipping, but it is an extremely expensive and good quality pot and has worked perfeclty.

The finnish is a very pleasing flat oil finnish; you can actually feel the wood grain.

Neck-through, countersunk straplock buttons, solid wood, tough stuff! Never had any problems. Most people can't believe I use steel roundwounds on a fretless, but the Purpleheart is holding up well. As I said before, I DON"T HAVE A BACKUP BASS!!! Don't need one, never will.

Great! You can actually talk to one of the guys that made your instrument.

If this bass was stolen, I would go into shock, pass out, cry for a very long time and then order another one. I've been playing for about 12 years and have played about every hand made bass out there. I mourne the years that I didn't have this instrument. If you want a good bass, go buy a USA Custom Shop Fender; if you want a bass that will change your life, buy a Warrior.

I got this guitar brand-spankin' new in February, as soon as it got off the line. All American beauty. It is a 24 fret, smooth-necked, quilit-topped guitar with a flamed 3-piece neck(flame maple, purple heart, flame maple). LR Baggs stereo bridge, two Warrior angel humbucker pickups with a five-way blade which splits the coils one way and paralells them another, leaving them as buckers on the other three positions. One volume, one tone and a blender (for the stereo) and a toggle between the piezo and mag pickups. Warrior gold, non-locking tuners. The neck is so smooth, I don't have to work at playing it, I can just play it. The finish is called "anointed oil" and you can feel the grain of the wood. Not a shiny finish, but it looks like they just peeled the wood out of a tree and slapped some pickups into it. It is gorgeous. Also, the body is "aged mahogany" so the tone is unbelievable.

The signature can do everything that I want it to. It has a high-gain bridge p/u, a mello neck p/u, a twangy parallelled bridge p/u and a bluesy single sounding configuration. Not to mention the peizo bridge which doubles the versatility of this instrument. I use it with a Boogie DC-3 combo amp and it roars and it whispers. I also use it on my church's Peavey Delta Blues, put it on all distortion and just use a volume pedal. It does very well every time I play it.

I changed the strings to 9's when I got it and it felt great. The neck, as mentioned before, is dreamy and smooth and the action is just right. The finish is nice as well, I noticed that as soon as I opened the case. I have yet to find a flaw in this instrument

I can always depend on this guitar (for the past four months anyways). It is consistent in tone and the flush-lock strap locks are very reliable (and they look cool). I do use this guitar without a backup, but I do have another guitar sitting in my room for when I send my guitar in for its *free* biannual tune-up. One thing that I have noticed about the finish on the instrument is that, since the body and neck are not laminated, I have turned some of the wood dark because of the oil in my fingers. I don't mind though, it just means that I practice alot, however, it probably lowers the resale value. I guess I'll just have to hold on to this one.

Man! JD (the president of the company and the guy that built mine) is amazing, so is the rest of the gang. The have helped me in every way possible, in fact, JD called me personally whenever he was making progress on the guitar, and when I wanted to know how far along the guitar was, I got to talk with him myself. There is a very reliable team at Warrior.

I think that next, I will buy one with a Floyd Rose, just to have some variety. I think that if this guitar were stolen, I would cry for weeks, I love everything about it and I don't think any other guitar could compare to it. I'm sorry that all I put down was a perfect score, but I really can't find anything wrong with it.

This is a Warrior Signature model (#85 in the series, #00198 for the manufacturer)made in the USA by JD Lewis down in Georgia February 2000. It is a six string solid body with a 24 fret neck. Warriors are always beautifully put together This one has a burl redwood top, mahogany body, ebony fretboard and a maple purple heart and mahogany neck. The body is hand carved and very elegant with a high gloss clear finish. The neck to body joint is excellent with a sculpted heel that allows access down past the 24th fret. Pickups are a Warrior angel Humbucker in the bridge and a Warrior Texas Classic in the neck. Electronics are tone and volume with a 5 way blade selector. The bridge is a GOTOH with strings running through the body (G force)Tuners are Warrior Golds non locking but a very smooth action. The neck has pearl blocks inset with abalone daigonal stripes and a sword the 12the fret> There is abalone perfling on the body (similar to the PRS Santana) and Warrior name inlay on the headstock. The guitar has Dunlop recessed strap locks and mine came with a Warrior strap. The case is a monster purple lined beast built to protect the guitar from earthquakes and being dropped from tall buildings - heavy!
I'm giving it a 9 for features. I'd have liked to have seen a US made bridge (The gold on mine is wearing off already on one edge)and locking tuners. I can change a string on my PRS in about 30 seconds without all that winding and threading. Cant go less than a 9 'cos I love this thing

The Warrior unplugged rings and sings. I have new swamp ash strat, a PRS CE24 and a Parker Fly Classic. The Warrior has a broader spread of tone than any of these. I have to say that the PRS may have a bit more 'grunt'when played dirty but overall I prefer the Warrior for Blues/Blues rock (I just put 10s on from the 9s I had on it before and I think thats definately impacted the tone for the better. I'm playing through a Fender HR deville straight or with an Ibanez tube screamer. Another 9 but only because I'm sure there is a perfect sound out there somewhere but 'till now this is as close as it gets

Bought this one used off the internet after seeing JD and the Warrior folks at the Philadelphia guitar show. Fortunately (for me)not many people know about Warriors yet and so I got a really good deal. Trust me, word will get out and these guitars will overtake PRS as Gold standard for playable beauty. It is very, very well made and the woods and inlay are flawless. All controls are smooth and tight a total quality feel to the whole thing

Haven't really had it long enough to talk about reliability or durability yet but I suspect it will be good. Despite being pretty it doesn't feel delicate and I think I'll be playing this one for a long time

I bought the guitar used but sent an Email to Warrior and they sent me details on the guitar, advise on cleaning and recommended an annual factory service at $75. JD Lewis and the Warrior folks are proud Christians but I think JD also knows where he is going with the business and will support his products over time. These guitars sell for $3900 new, if you can pick up a good used one do it, in 5 years it will be worth some serious bucks

I've only been playing for about 4 years but as I'm 53 I have a lot of catching up to do so I play a lot! I have 7 guitars and this is the Queen. If it gets stolen there will be a body count (be warned)I f I see another one close to this price and condition I'll buy it and I hope I can bear to sell it for a profit. Even my wife thinks its beautiful and she has to listen to me practising every day! All I need to find now is a nice Chestnut leather strap to match the Burl Redwood front and life will be wonderful