mikeswals

Mick had two Mk1's: One was tulip, seems he really favored that one. The other one was cherry. Both very rare woods, but a few cherry ones were made, as IIRC the cherry tree came from one blown down in a storm.

the US version does have the 70's spacing. I think the Japan factory was only going for the look.

About a month ago saw The Cult and Pennywise about a week apart.

I'll have 4 gig this week. Was at work Monday and just before 5pm quitting time, one of my drummers calls and needed me to be house bass for the music school he teaches, doing open jam for their students at a local all-ages club. Wednesday night (tonight), will be back to my weekly live karaoke band. Fri & Sat nights, my main band is doing casino gigs.

Yes, Bill Bolton I saw him post something on one of the Facebook pages as well

Yeah! I remember on the FDP forum, there was only fella who has a 62 stack knob, its an Aussie named Bill

Fender is the biggest cash cow for aftermarket and replacement components in the instrument world... Biggest reason is because of fraud bodies & necks or major patches being hidden under a repaint. People are paying for originality on Fenders when its easy to see what you have. Still need to be educated about all the running details though! Whats to keep (as has happened many times) crooked folks to doctor up a Squier body or Allparts neck , throw a paint job on it and claim originality and try and get top vintage dollar? Its best to leave well enough alone, if still all there. No one is making fraud Spectors, or Musicmans, or Status, they have no aftermarket cash cow market. A Wal will sell whether its original or refin'ed or defretted/fretted

Beautiful preEB!!! The "long poles" are actually on the underside of the pickup.

I just don't like them! There is so much richness lost with flats, the over tones that let tube amps bark, and effects speak much better with rounds. I can still mute and thump with rounds for the rare songs that really need such a sound. I still have one bass left with flats, and its a P bass, but I dont prefer playing P's either...its only there because I'm a Jamerson fan. But I'm always wishing I brought something else whenever I do take it out of the house. Ive always had duplicates of basses, and 15-20 years ago I used to keep flats on the 2nd of each style bass, but realized I was never reaching for them. Ive tried lots and lot$$$ of brands of them, and Dunlops being the only ones I stuck with because the tension is most similar to rounds.

His post on September 26th says its getting a blacked-out neck. Back in 2019 I had and order in progress for a Mk3 in white (arrived in 2022). For a quick minute I had Paul send me a few ziricote samples as I had considered maybe changing to gloss ziricote with a black painted neck. But I nixed the idea and stayed the course with white as I had the agenda my last three orders would be red, white, & blue. My blue Mk1 order should be getting painted as we speak, already had my workshop pic sent over a month ago.

usually you only get three pics: the neck, and then when the body is done all before paint/clear coating, and then last when its all finished sitting in the case.

Fantastic looking Mk3! can't wait to see the final product with the black neck.

My 64 & 65 Jazzes. My 78 Ray still has 3.2 years to go!

I have 8 Wals, and all are usually strung with stainless DR Hibeams. For a short period I used R Cocco stainless whenever I could find them, but it got more difficult finding them in the US, and I hated their B strings, so stopped. But my Wal 5's only get Hibeams, the B strings sound perfectly consistant with the rest. I have never worn frets in nearly 3 decades using DR. Lately I had checked out some others, and I have a 4 string MK2s strung with SIT Foundations stainless, and those have been on there for over 2 years now and still bright and zingy!