Wal MK1 Fretless 1983. W2082 £5995 U.K

[Piers_Williamson]

Billy Book cases start at £15.  You'll soon be able to afford a load of them🙂

[Jason Karloff]

Yer but don't they have a life expectancy of 2 weeks?😛

[OliverBlackman]

56 minutes ago, Jason Karloff said:

Yer but don't they have a life expectancy of 2 weeks?😛

If you sell this bass then that gives you 400 bookcases and 16 years 😂 not including inflation

[Jason Karloff]

No one likes a smart git 😛

Edited January 5, 2022 by Jason Karloff

[dutchwife]

Can't believe this is still here. If there's no action over the weekend and trades may work, a friend of a friend at the docks just "found" a container holding 420 IKEA bookshelves ... 🤞🏻

[dutchwife]

...and GLWTS of course!

[Jason Karloff]

Hahahahahaha. Excellent. 

But chuck in a bag of tea lights. 

[dutchwife]

Tea lights?? 🤔 That's pushing it a bit. If only it was fretted...

[CJPJ]

On 05/01/2022 at 15:22, Happy Jack said:

I'd not be likely to forget selling a bass for £6k! 😂

You would if you paid £8k for it 🤣

[Jason Karloff]

1 hour ago, dutchwife said:

Tea lights?? 🤔 That's pushing it a bit. If only it was fretted...

 

Fretless is easy. 

Finger note. Play note. 

If it sounds too low or high just slide accordingly and smile. 

Ha got away with it. 

[vincbt]

Does this come in flat-packs then?

 

Can’t believe it’s still here, luckily I’m not in the UK anymore so can’t be tempted!

 

GLWTS

[Nicolas Celini]

This bass still available?

[Jason Karloff]

Sure is. 

[Nicolas Celini]

4 hours ago, Jason Karloff said:

Sure is. 

I'm interested. I've just signed up here specifically, as someone posted link on 'Wal bass lovers of the world...' facebook page. Is it listed on ebay or reverb or what? How can we proceed? I'm in Glasgow area.

[Clarky]

17 minutes ago, Nicolas Celini said:

I'm interested. I've just signed up here specifically, as someone posted link on 'Wal bass lovers of the world...' facebook page. Is it listed on ebay or reverb or what? How can we proceed? I'm in Glasgow area.

I would click on the seller's profile and send him a private message. Good luck to you both

[Bunion]

1 hour ago, Nicolas Celini said:

I'm interested. I've just signed up here specifically, as someone posted link on 'Wal bass lovers of the world...'

Basschat is a hive of Wal bass players and some people play others brands. Yes it’s (written in the Metallica bible) sad but true. 
Glad to have you aboard, tell your friends 😁

[Kev]

On 08/01/2022 at 18:23, Nicolas Celini said:

I'm interested. I've just signed up here specifically, as someone posted link on 'Wal bass lovers of the world...' facebook page. Is it listed on ebay or reverb or what? How can we proceed? I'm in Glasgow area.

Last time I was in that group, some members used to get very upset with me when I claimed that many Wal owners were greedy profiteering gits for trying to sell their Wal's to other members for £10k+ when they bought them for less than half that a short time before...a group full of interesting people, nice basses but perhaps not so nice community spirit.

 

Hope you grab this one for a decent price and hang around  

[NickA]

2 hours ago, Kev said:

Last time I was in that group, some members used to get very upset with me when I claimed that many Wal owners were greedy profiteering gits

Yes, it's true!  To an extent.  There are collectors hogging multiple basses who really want them to appreciate.  Also folk who spent $1000s on a new every option dream bass who are really scared values will fall and tend to talk up 2nd hand prices; so when someone does sell they price high.  This behaviour has inflated prices and sucked in flippers which just makes things worse.

 

Here is a fine example.  They bought this bass for £520 at auction.  Now want £7000 for it ...AND IT ISNT EVEN A REAL WAL ( apart from the neck).  They also have a genuine pro1 they got in the same auction for £2600 (fair price maybe) and now want £10,000 for.

 

https://www.essexrecordingstudios.com/products/1979-wal-pro-bass-rare-plain-face-earliest-example-frets-removed-to-play-fretless

 

Shysters.

[three]

Without wishing to pull a sales thread further into a discussion of Wal pricing, this beautiful bass could be a very useful hedge with respect to a couple of years of relatively high inflation.

 

Onto topic, it appears that Paul has performed a wonderful restoration job - is it possible to source original Wal knobs to complete the 'new' look?  Given it's a genuine Wal, Paul may be willing to supply these to a verified purchaser, though I suspect it's an expensive addition.  A very lovely bass from an excellent period (IMO) of Wal's history - I'm rather surprised that this wasn't snapped up within 24 hours

[Jason Karloff]

If anyone desires to put new knobs on it they can of course but when I spoke to Paul about this in December he said there were currently problems with availability. So if anyone wants to go down that route then they would have to wait a little while for them to be delivered. 

I can't image the price of a few knobs is going to be significant somehow. 

 

In terms of the pricing of Wal's in general, don't worry I'm well aware that people are selling them for what I  think is crazy money. Or at least trying to sell them for crazy money. 

That's why this one isn't crazy money. 

I'm selling it for what I think it's worth. 

I'm not selling it for where other people think the market is currently at. 

Edited January 14, 2022 by Jason Karloff

[NickA]

I was in Paul's cow shed a bit ago. They hold limited spares, ordering in parts specifically for basses they're building ... I needed a new bridge height adjuster and he did have a bag of those due to minimum order quantities, but insisted on fiting it himself.  Didnt see spare knobs hanging about.  You could get them re anodised I guess.

 

To quote Mr Herman "it won't change the sound"

Edited January 14, 2022 by NickA

[Jason Karloff]

Exactly. A great sounding Wal still soundd like a great sounding Wal. Irrespective of a knob that's been used. 

[Dazed]

Very surprised this is still here. 

[Piers_Williamson]

2 hours ago, Jason Karloff said:

Exactly. A great sounding Wal still soundd like a great sounding Wal. Irrespective of a knob that's been used. 

Or in my case, the knob that's using it....

[nationofzeros]

That is one beautiful 80s Wal Mk1 fretless - surely the iconic version ! I bought one a few months ago,  and I cant recommend them enough. Come on bassists, snap it up !