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Wal Bass Club.

Pete the fish God bless his soul was an awesome luthier but I think Pete has more attention to detail. My 30 year old Mrk2 sounded incredible from day one but since Pete gave it a general overhaul the action is better and to my ears it is sounding slightly punchier. Could be the trans gloss finish I don’t know.

curious, how many "Paul era" builds have you gotten a chance to play/own (unless what you typed was a typo)? With all the Wals I've owned and passed through my hands I think Paul has perfected the quality compared to any of the older ones i've owned/own now. one of the other guys in FB Wal group touched upon the different time frames of Wal and i think he hit it spot on (can't seem to find that post now).
 
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curious, how many "Paul era" builds have you gotten a chance to play/own (unless what you typed was a typo)? With all the Wals I've owned and passed through my hands I think Paul has perfected the quality compared to any of the older ones i've owned/own now. one of the other guys in FB Wal group touched upon the different time frames of Wal and i think he hit it spot on (can't seem to find that post now).
I have only owned and played Paul era Wals. When I got my MK3 last year I couldn't get the action and neck set to my liking due to the extreme climate change.
I took the Wal to a local luthier who is mainly a guitar player but also plays bass and he freaked out when he saw the Wal and proclaimed how much he loved the Wal sound.
After adjusting the neck and action and a half hour of playing he told me this was the third Wal he worked on. The other two were "older". Of the three the luthier said my Wal was the best.
He said the other two sounded great but he said one was poorly built and had many issues while the other one was good.
This is a coming from guy who had worked on and restored rare Deaquisto jazz guitars and pre war era Martin acoustics, I think its a nice testimony to the quality of Paul era Wal's!
 
This was my MK3...absolutely a joy to play. Jon Wright, “SGW Pro Audio” is a very fraudulent, very sneaky person...but also a complete idiot. I sold him my WAL on February 8th. He received it and posted it on reverb for $7995 along with a video of him playing it, talking about how great it payed and sounded. I could care less what he wanted to resell it for, I got want I wanted out of it. Anyhow, he sent me an email today, March 11, over a month later and says it’s basically unplayable. He said the neck wasn’t true, it needed and entire fret job...the works. First off, I know that wasn’t true. Out of the 45 basses I own, this was the absolute best playing bass I owned. He says he wants a refund of $1000. He waits to tell me this a month later? He posts videos of how great it was? He opened up a case through PayPal demanding a refund of $1000 from me. After several emails, I made it clear that he was about to get himself in a lot of trouble with him being a fraudulent buyer/seller. He dropped the case. I’ve never dealt with this idiot before....it sounds like he’s done a lot of shady stuff in the past. If I would have known, I would have never sold it to him. If anyone know how I can take this idiot down, please let me know. Most of us are trust worthy people here...and when you’re dealing with thousands and thousands of dollars, we should be. But this guy is not honest and will do whatever he can to get the most money possible out if people.

@DeltaPhoenix
Couple stories like this are in FB too unfortunately about this guy..... don't mean to put a downer on your NBD but just make sure you go through your new bass with a fine tooth and comb and report any discrepancies to him immediately..... personally I've never dealt with him but spoken to people who has.
 
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