RonC

What a great job!! good craftsmanship, this Vigier looks stunning!

Yes, i did. Since 2018 I’m following luthier classes in Belgium.

Here's a teaser!

The bass is almost finished! The neck is ready, and i'm finishing the body at the moment (i only work on it one day a week so it takes a while..). Then making the control plate (wood), oil everyting and mounting the hardware PU's and electronics. So i think it will be ready in a month or so! As soon as it's finished i'll post a build diary with pics!

On the gluboost website there are some videos how to use it. When you follow these steps I’m convinced you can fix it invisibly! Succes!

Glu Boost fill and finish! It’s a kind of superglue. fill the spot, sand it, polish it and you won’t even see it anymore. I’ve repaired a lot of cracks and dents with it.

Beautiful!! I really like these basses. Never had the chance to play one but I’m curious..

Sometimes (like now) I do regret that I let this one go… but you can’t keep all your basses…

I had trouble getting a decent price for it also… it was quite an expensive bass when I bought it though (I believe around the 4000 Dutch Guilders). the highest bid I got was 900€…. eventually someone wanted to trade it for a stingray. (Which I sold because I didn’t like the color), then I bought a natural stingray back.. I always prefer natural wood basses.

I sold it to buy a stingray back then. The stingray is gone also... that one i do mis. I still have a brochure of Leader somewhere, i'll make a copy to post it one of these days!

I played one from around 1991 till 2002 somewhere. It’s was a great bass, a bit of a Warwick kind of vibe. The body is pretty small so when I grew older (and a bit fatter 😂), it didn’t suit me anymore😉.. Mine had bartolini pickups. It sounded great and played really nice. Fantastic build quality! Here’s me slapping the Leader back in 91 or 92…

That’s a gourgious bass! congrats on that one! Andre is indeed a great luthier.

Besides the already mentioned points, the bracing is different for both sides (bass and treble) so therefore the acoustic sound won’t be optimal..

That’s gonna be a beauty!!!

Wow, these are stunning basses! What a craftsmanship!!

Aria ProII "the Cat Bass"(‘88) Leader 4 string ('92) Pearl jazz bass Wal MKIII fretless 5 string ('98) Fender Jazz ('77) body met Marcus Miller RI neck, J retro electronics Musicman Stingray 3EQ Musicman Stingray 3EQ ('96) Wal proIIe ('79) Wal MK1 fretless ('86) Wal MK1 ('83) Ibanez Musician MC900 ('79) Safran semi acoustic fretless(‘22)

I’m building a copy of my Wal MK1 at the moment. Lusithand double NFP special MK2 preamp and Turner multicoil PU’s. I hope to finish it by February next year. As soon as it’s ready I’ll post a build diary with pics. I’m very curious how it will play and sound compared to my real Wal…

What a good choice to switch to Bass! It automaticly makes you the coolest guy of the band! welcome!

What a great job!!! Thats quite exciting to do. Excellent craftsmanship!!.

Hi all, I'm on this forum for quite a while now but never introduced myself so it's about time i'll do that! So here it goes: I'm a 52yr old bass player, started in 1989 and played in a lot of bands ever since. I really like the creative part of making music so I never did covers and always played in bands with own material. At this moment i'm not in a band anymore, partly due lack of time. I always liked to work on my instruments so in 2018 I started with a luthiers course in Belgium which i really enjoy. It's so great to create an instrument with your hands out of some pieces of wood! After building an acoustic guitar (Martin no1 model, for my wife), which took me 3 years to finish... (6 hrs a week) I'm now working on a copy of one of my Wal basses. I hope to finish it somewhere around februari 2025.. So i like gear and especially Wal basses. I was fortunate to buy a new MK3 fretless 5 string in 1998 which i played for 7 years. It was always a dream for me to own a Wal.. Around 2005 i wanted to go back to only 4 strings, i still feel more comfortable and free on a 4 string, so i decided to trade my Wal for a MK1 fretless 4 string with a rosewood fretboard. This one came with an extra neck with ebony fretboard (my preference for fretless). So i swapped necks. About a year later i started wandering where this ebony neck came from, so i contacted the guy i traded with again and he told me the story of a totally damaged Wal he had bought once from a punk bassist. The body was heavily modified (abused) with a saw, he still had it complete with the pickups, electronics and bridge. So he sold the rest of this for a penny to me. My idea was to have a local luthier build me a body for it but i had it lying around for years. In 2011 Paul Herman took over the Wal business so i had him build me a new body and fret the neck. So I ended up with 2 Wals with this trade, which should never be separated. Besides that i have an old ProIIe with was in very bad shape when i bought it (in 2005), i was able to repair the electronics, PU's and had the fretboard replaced. In the past i played a Fender Jazz, Musicman Stingray and a handmade "Leader" bass but only the Wals remained. (but i would love to own a stingray again someday..) Despite a have 3 Wals now (a MK1 fretted, MK1 fretless and an old ProIIe), Wals still have a huge attraction to me and sometimes i miss a low B. I can't affort buying another Wal so i'm building a copy now myself which will be strung BEAD. Besides the Wals, i also play a semi acoustic fretless Safran bass from a Belgian luthier, this one has a great sound, almost like an upright.. For amplification I have an old EBS Fafner with two Eden D210T cabs. And i love to fool around with FX.

It's viewable without IG! 👍 Great that Nick has it back!

Very nice sound!! and great playing too!🤘

That looks great! keep on posting the progress!

How do you guys print/paint the box so nice??