SOLD PRICE DROP! Wal MKII Tribute Bass

Price Drop: $1750

Bought this off of another TB'er here in 2016. This is the closest possible bass you can own to an actual Wal in my opinion, for less than 1/5 of the price (a new MK2 with these specs would come in at nearly $10,000 delivered to the USA)

• Built to Wal specs/dimensions
• Solid Mahogany Core
• Black Poly Finish
• Multicoil Wal clone pickups (Made by Marko Ursing)
• ACG EQ01 preamp
• 6 piece neck (mahogany and maple)
• Rosewood Fretboard
• Schaller tuners
• G&L bridge
• A hair under 10lbs
• Hardshell case

The ACG filter pre-amp is fairly famous in it's own right. It's basically a more diverse Wal pre-amp. It is a filter based pre-amp just like a Wal, with the Wal sound plus multiple more settings.

The pickups were built by Marko Ursing (A TB Member here, screenname: "MPU") who reversed engineered a Wal humbucker. Each coil of the multicoil pickups used 10000 rounds of 42AWG, same was the Wal spec. The pickups were made with with Wal size bobbins, wire and rounds.

I originally purchased this bass for $1700. The seller had it listed for $1600 and there was a bidding war, and i actually ended up purchasing it for more than asking price at the time. I then put in over $700 of "upgrades" listed below:

When i bought the bass it had walnut facings. I absolutely LOVED the bass, but the walnut wasn't my style. I took it to Southbound custom in Nashville, who does paint work for Gibson and custom jobs and had them refinish in a black poly.

It also started it's life with a "naked" fretboard. I had a luthier install mother of pearl inlay dots. The other modification i made was to have all electronic cavities shielded with copper.

As you can see a lot of effort was put into this bass, both by the original owner and myself.

The bass is in mint condition. Freshly set-up with low action and new strings. I have a video of the original owner playing it below. If i can figure out how to record something halfway decent sounding using my cellphone, i can possibly upload some more sound samples.

Please let me know if you have any questions!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4Om1aIdsrg

 

Glad you brought that up. That's one area that is different from a Wal. The neck is more of a C shape, maybe even a D shape. It's very comfortable, at least for me.

 

Price Drop from $2000 to $1750 now, also open to trades