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Got a 1979 Pro1e recently.. was fitted with a Wal custom neck at some point, very nice.

The serial number is not listed in the Wal notebook along with 3 others of the same period... some kind of custom order or something
Apparently Pete Stevens wanted to buy it back from the previous owner...!

Anyway, mine goes up to 11... do all the Pro1's do this? :)


Edit: Pardon my ignorance!

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[quote name='jmesa' post='441677' date='Mar 22 2009, 01:19 PM']Got a 1979 Pro1e recently.. was fitted with a Wal custom neck at some point, very nice.

The serial number is not listed in the Wal notebook along with 3 others of the same period... some kind of custom order or something
Apparently Pete Stevens wanted to buy it back from the previous owner...!

Anyway, mine goes up to 11... do all the Pro1's do this? :)


Edit: Pardon my ignorance![/quote]
Yes - they all went up to 11! Wal & Pete were way ahead of the game in the trivial rock 'n' roll humour stakes...

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[quote name='WalMan' post='442962' date='Mar 23 2009, 07:30 PM']Have you looked in the control cavity yet? There is often a bit of masking tape with some more details about the bass, woods etc.[/quote]
I think they only started doing that with the Custom models, from about 1981/2 onwards...

More information here:

[url="http://www4.cs.fau.de/~koesters/Privat/Wal/walspec.html"]http://www4.cs.fau.de/~koesters/Privat/Wal/walspec.html[/url]

and here:

[url="http://www.trevorandthea.eclipse.co.uk/wal_history.htm"]http://www.trevorandthea.eclipse.co.uk/wal_history.htm[/url]

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[quote name='jmesa' post='447475' date='Mar 27 2009, 04:30 PM']How much do you think an original Wal hard case is worth out of interest?

The brown one with the logo...[/quote]

I sold one of the later (grey) cases for £200 at the height of Wal mania a couple of years ago, but tbh I would suggest you just stick it in the attic if you aren't going to use it.

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