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Wal Bass Club.

#1,608
j.kernodle said:
not content to wait until july 2014 to join the ranks I have pulled the trigger on the padauk faced mkI with the sapwood in the center and the little tiny pickguard. stay tuned for my classified ad where I sell everything else I own!
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Awesome!!! Congrats I'm sure you'll love it..... :bassist:

Does that mean you bought/assimilated #47 into the club :confuse: :D
 
#1,610
j.kernodle said:
thanks Jose! based on my conversation with Zulufunk, I don't think he'll be wal-less forever. leave the light on for the guy.
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Good!! being Wal-less is just plain cold.... Especially in winter!

Btw, ain't it just great surcumbing to the Wal gas :D


Ned, that red case is cool looking!!!

Does anyone know if Wal supplied a lot of those types or is that truely a unique rare bird?
 
#1,611
zazz said:
So lets talk strings for fretless....any strings out there that sound great but don't damage the fretboard too much ..... I say this as a guy who wrecked his first wal ebony board with rotosounds so the common advice of just play what sounds good and be damned doesn't hold true for me...

I now have a rosewood board so I'm going to be even more cautious with this one.

One thing that is in my favour is the wal preamp will coax out the maximum tones from less abrasive strings where other basses may not.

Any suggestions guys?
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I had similar problem with my Wal when I bought it second hand since it was played 15+ years with Rotosound roundwounds. Also, I`m not much into flats and I wanted to continue playing it with round ones as I play them on other basses. I solved my problem by taking radius block and sanding ebony a bit to correct the damage that was made by stings and putting nitrocellulose lacquer over ebony. Final result was very good. I`m playing it for about a year and it made minimal scratches on lacquer and whenever in future it reaches wood I can take lacquer off and place new one.
 
#1,612
Saw this in my local guitar shop..really wish I could have bought it but it didn't even have a price on it! Bet the person who did buy it is in Heaven! ImageUploadedByTalkBass1364905268.848724.jpgImageUploadedByTalkBass1364905290.148660.jpg
 
#1,615
Cebe said:
I had similar problem with my Wal when I bought it second hand since it was played 15+ years with Rotosound roundwounds. Also, I`m not much into flats and I wanted to continue playing it with round ones as I play them on other basses. I solved my problem by taking radius block and sanding ebony a bit to correct the damage that was made by stings and putting nitrocellulose lacquer over ebony. Final result was very good. I`m playing it for about a year and it made minimal scratches on lacquer and whenever in future it reaches wood I can take lacquer off and place new one.
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Well I'm totally fascinated by the mick karn sound...as I have been since the early 80s. I seem to be getting it in spades using flats which I find quite surprising. I know with wals he used the db low riders....which were pretty worn and are rounds....but on further investigation I found that he used flats on his Travis Bean for all but the final Tin Drum Japan studio album ..and he only switched basses because the travis Bean aluminum neck didn't stay in tune. He got a wal by chance because the wal workshops were just down the road from the studio where they were recording that album. So the point is a wal with worn in rounds is just a preference for mick....the fact is that with the right technique you could coax out that sound with flats.

Now I'm wondering what the Travis Bean bass is like to play.....apparently its a real heavy beast.....

Now the final point to my post.....a few years ago in an earlier hunt for a wal I was actually negotiating with mick to buy a bass off him .....obviously thinking it was a wal ...but it turned out to be the Travis Bean!!! Thinking it was some odd kick around bass that he was trying to push I declined....but now in hindsight I realise I had been offered the definitive Japan bass!! I kick myself now for not buying it .... I can't recall the exact price but I know it was less than a wal.
 
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#1,618
nibs208 said:
Looks like England juding by the pounds sign on the tag. akes a little more sense.
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lol i see it now....when i first saw it, i was viewing it from my phone and didn't see the price tag on the SR...i see it nice and clearly now. ya a person here in states would have to be really high to trade in or sell for a shop to have it showcased on the selling floor.

hhmmm.... i guess that shop was bassdirect if that pic was taken recently :eyebrow:
 
#1,620
Hi fellow Wal heads,
Does anyone know the "K" value for the pots used by Wal for their passive basses? Fender uses 250K, and Gibson uses 500K.
I have a '92 Wal MK I Custom that's passive and the pots do not show any "K" value on them. I did see "UK" stamped on them, so they were made in the UK.
I need to get 4 UK made pots (2 regular, two push/pull pots) with the correct "K" value for passive Wal pups.
Any thoughts, leads, or help with this is MUCH appreciated! :)
Cheers!
 

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