Bizarrely, this is the first sunburst Wal I've seen

[Happy Jack]

[url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/WAL-PRO-Bass-Guitar-/230703950348?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item35b706ea0c"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/WAL-PRO-Bass-Guitar-/230703950348?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item35b706ea0c[/url]

[chris_b]

[size=4]I've never seen a 3TS Custom but I have seen 3TS PRO basses.[/size]

[Mykesbass]

To my eyes there's probably a very good reason

[BigAlonBass]

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To my eyes there's probably a very good reason
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Which is?

[molan]

[quote name='Mykesbass' timestamp='1321650463' post='1441738']
To my eyes there's probably a very good reason
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I'm with you here!

[Mykesbass]

[quote name='BigAlonBass' timestamp='1321699070' post='1442031']
Which is?
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To my eyes it looks like one of those dreadful 70's plywood finishes. Sorry, don't want to upset anyone, and love the whole ethos of Wal basses, but that is what I'm seeing.

[geoffbassist]

[quote name='Mykesbass' timestamp='1321700733' post='1442073']


To my eyes it looks like one of those dreadful 70's plywood finishes. Sorry, don't want to upset anyone, and love the whole ethos of Wal basses, but that is what I'm seeing.
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+1 it would be intresting to see what electric wood think.

[noelk27]

That finish looks better in reality. Well, it did to me the day I wandered into Sound Control, in Glasgow, and saw three of the two pickup versions lying on the floor, on top of their hardcases. Circa '87, and SC was asking £550 for each. Walked out with mine for £480.

[ash]

It looks like a Shergold marathon with a Wal neck and parts........

[geoffbassist]

I really don't know much about these early models and just thought it looks cheap. That said there's another very similar bass on eBay which looks equally poor. Perhaps it's just an early model, but it looks cheap.

[noelk27]

[quote name='geoffbassist' timestamp='1321745427' post='1442755']I really don't know much about these early models and just thought it looks cheap.[/quote]
Don't let the finish or the ugly scratchplate fool you, these were more ballsy than the later Wals that so many others seem to covet. I'd have this model over the later models every time.

Edited November 21, 2011 by noelk27