damaging the PCB is highly unlikely unless you get a 4 year old to do the work lol. i did this for a passive Pro i once had and it wasn't that difficult. here's the pic of the pots Paul send out.
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damaging the PCB is highly unlikely unless you get a 4 year old to do the work lol. i did this for a passive Pro i once had and it wasn't that difficult. here's the pic of the pots Paul send out.
Just came across this today. Never seen this before (well, I probably saw it when it originally aired - loved Kenny’s TV show, never missed it). Gordon Giltrap MBE and band doing Heartsong! Cracking stuff!
John G Perry on the plinth at the back miming on JP1111 - his short scale JG series prototype/one off…
John G Perry on the plinth at the back miming on JP1111 - his short scale JG series prototype/one off…
NBD.. Wal MK1. I am new to Wal, such a cool instrument...
nice looking Wal
. Fingerboard looks a bit unusual and lighter than most Wals you see. what type of timbre is the fingerboard?
nice looking Wal
According to label, it's Indian rosewood.. what do you think..? I upload some additional pictures.
cool! would've thought it was a different timbre. thanks for indulging my curiousity!
The fretboard looks like the Pao Ferro of my Monarch Standard.
For those who own a Wal 5'er or 6'er, how do the pickups/preamp do with the extended range strings, particularly the low B?
One of tone pots is quite tight when push/pull and it seems it turns in bigger range than from 0 to 10. Unhealthy. Sonically all ok.
Is there any way how to repair this? Some lubrication or pressured air or whatever? Or do I have to change it? Seems like standard MEC pot... What do you thing?
Is there any way how to repair this? Some lubrication or pressured air or whatever? Or do I have to change it? Seems like standard MEC pot... What do you thing?
I remove the knobs, dip a toothpick in Deoxit and dribble a drop down each pot shaft. Work the pot back and forth, up and down. Its loosed up any I've had.
I sold it to Lenexa in Kansas in 2019. I don´t think the guy is a member here. It`s W1202 and listed in the Wal Data Base.
I know there's been some interest in here on the Octave copies... looks like one showed up in the TB classifieds:
For Sale - Octave Bass Mk.II
For Sale - Octave Bass Mk.II
Finally some representative pics... Still very impressed by Wal - after uncountable number of basses of all kinds, different in so many aspects. I appreciate that they really do everything in their own way.. hope it's not considered as a spam 
Question about the wood layers in that body sandwich: It's my understanding that Wals usually have one contrasting layer, a very thin maple or walnut veneer laminate mostly only visible at the forearm bevel, in between the mahogany core and the (in this case, sycamore) top cap. But it sure looks from ^^^that picture as if there's another thin laminate of sycamore in between the lighter contrasting maple veneer and the mahogany core!
- is that an optical illusion? or
- is this a special, atypical, custom body construction? or
- is my understanding of Wal laminates incorrect?
Thanks.
[edit: wait, see post #13887]
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