Kev

for me, totally depends on the shape, neck and hardware of the bass, completely subjective. For example i love a sunburst finish on a jazz type, but think it looks rubbish on a stingray type. Im finding myself drooling over and fiesta red basses that come up lately, and iv always been a fan of white basses w/ maple fretboard.

[quote name='Spoombung' post='619087' date='Oct 6 2009, 10:17 PM']Oh, I can't help it now, you've got me going. The Wal website looks like some sort of Ikea/Habitat generic abomination made by a team of 6th formers on a Dreamweaver course. There's tiny little pictures that you click on ... only to bring up more tiny pictures. Their website puts me off ordering a new Wal even more than the actual price.[/quote] With all due respect, if a basic website puts you off buying a wal, i don't think you should be spending thousands of pounds on a bass. When talking about this kind of money, its all about telephone calls/emails/meeting in person, not clicking 'click to enlarge', 'view details' and 'add to basket' on a website I very much doubt there wil be many visitors to the website who don't know what a wal bass is about, so a basic site is all that is needed, for the time being at least.

[quote name='velvetkevorkian' post='619074' date='Oct 6 2009, 10:06 PM']Surely that's the [i]entire point[/i] of running a business? If someone asked me whether I wanted to do the same job for £50k a year that I was doing for £15k before, I would jump at it. [/quote] perhaps i am naive and like to think there are more luthiers out there who care more about music than money Anyway, i can see where this kind of arguement can go so lets nip it in the bud. Its great for people who really want the Wal sound, but IMO too expensive for somebody who simply wants a quality custom bass.

any places left at £185?

at that kind of starting price, you are paying for the brand. You could get a superb bass for half the likely final price from the likes of Shuker or similar, and i doubt the quality difference would be noticible. Great to see them in production though, just a shame they have followed the trend of needing to make such a large profit margin. No different from anyone else though i guess, tis the nature of the business these days

iv seen 09's in worse condition than that, quite remarkable.

the neck pocket is too large, but the neck wont budge when screws are out? What is it glued on or something?

oh man that EBS MetalDrive sounds horrible in such a good way! gasss

[quote name='dannybuoy' post='611206' date='Sep 28 2009, 08:16 PM'] No idea who Kurt Ballou or Converge are (you should post some clips) but this is pretty ridiculous yet defined! [url="http://www.tonefactor.com/proddetail.php?prod=DirtyBomb"]$120 delivered[/url] (plus you won't get hit by customs charges )[/quote] sounds like thats a pedal for active basses, it sounds bloody awful with the P bass IMO. I like it when GAS gets killed