Recent content by Andy Marshall

If you do, it won't be for straining to lift this. It weights almost nothing. Strangely enough, I was a consultant on the Philips AED. Somehow, no one on the team could make the voice module (that gave verbal instructions) intelligible, and I was called in to help. A former employee of mine was...

Up for sale is a truly astounding bass made by Joe Zon in July, 2000. It is incredibly light-weight, coming in at a surprising 7 lbs, 1 oz! The body is center-seam two-piece solid swamp ash, with beautiful grain figure, ergonomic and comfortable as can be, with an exaggerated belly-cut and...

Does anyone know what this is? It looks German, likely 1960s, and that appears to be a Schaller pickup.

Yikes! You are right. I don't post here very often, and don't know my way around the site and its options as well as most of you. I have changed it and now the "fretless" marker is unchecked. Thanks! - Andy

Up for sale is a truly astounding bass that Mike Lull built for me in 2014. I wanted something to capture the sound of James Jamerson and Klaus Voormann. I knew that I wanted it to be strung with flat wounds, but didn’t want it to sound “dead”. Mike said that he could 100% of the time build a...

Yes, within a few hours.

I love Christophe Leduc's U-Basses. I had the pleasure of spending the day with a 4 string fretless and a 6 string fretted some 20 years ago, and still remember it clearly. I would love to get one some day. Is this a recently built one?

Thank you. Someone beat you to it on eBay this morning. That said, they have a 48 hour approval period. I will let you know as soon as I hear from them. It should be a bit between one and two weeks. Where in Snohomish does your brother live? We are in the Emerald Forest area.

I use a sheet of formica partly because of how smoothly it bends from the horizontal to the vertical plane. The lights are about 45 degrees of to each side, about as close as I can get them and still have full coverage (in this case, about 3 feet from the bass). The closeup of the electronics...

Thank you! Happy to. I use a Sony NEX-7 camera with the stock 18-55mm lens, synced to a pair of Bowens Esprit 500 strobes, both with Photoflex Silver Dome NXT soft boxes. The backdrop is a 4' x 8' sheet of white Formica. I prefer Formica to seamless paper, because I can use it for years, and...

Its fretted twin (consecutive serial numbers) sold within a hour of being listed on the Facebook "Wal Bass Owners Of The World Unite!" group, for the same price.

Oops! Sorry. I've removed that bit. Thanks!

So, it's official. My 2014 Wal Mk.1, 4 string fretless bass is for sale. It is in absolute dead mint, 100% original condition, with original case, and has under 100 hours of playing time on it. It has Claro Walnut facings that I picked during a visit with Paul Herman in Fetcham and an African...