Early example of a Wal Custom. As I'm sure you all know, these are top-quality instruments with a unique sound. This one has a solid mahogany body with maple facings, rosewood fingerboard, and the usual Wal active pickups and electronics.
P.B. 1747 was built by Greg in 1982, and originally had "treated" maple facings and a fretless Macassar Ebony fingerboard. Pete the Fish changed it to a fretted with Indian Rosewood fingerboard in 1994. It's not clear whether he changed the fingerboard, or just swapped the fretless neck for a fretted one. In 2000, not long after I bought the bass, I got Pete to sand back the maple facings to (mostly) remove the "treatment", and finish the body with honey clearcoat. He serviced the electronics and fixed a dry solder joint around the same time. The instrument is in overall good nick, with a few scratches as befits a 36 year old working bass. All the electronics work, and it comes with a genuine, but fairly tatty, Wal hard case.
I love this bass, but it's really not getting used very much. Will consider partial trades against high-end guitar effects, really nice Telecasters, really nice baritone guitars, or quality short-scale basses. Payment preferably by bank transfer or PayPal. Collection strongly preferred (located near Falmouth, Cornwall).