Doug Wilkes

[quote name='icastle' post='1116945' date='Feb 5 2011, 08:01 PM']Yeah, it was a lovely instrument.
I'm really surprised they didn't become more popular.[/quote]


Cheers mate! Doug

[quote name='dmccombe7' post='1116187' date='Feb 5 2011, 08:00 AM']Sorry no photos but I remember Wilkes basses with the variations on fret styles.
Nice basses too.
If memory serves me right you also did fretted up to 7th or 9th and fretless from there ?
At the time it made a lot of sense. Never got to see one in the flesh and have a go.
They were the first ones I had ever seen like that.

Good luck
Dave[/quote]

Cheers Dave, somebody else has posted exactly what i was looking for. Now to get in touch with Ibanez!
Much appreciated though,

Doug

[quote name='GeeCee' post='1116134' date='Feb 5 2011, 02:15 AM']Hi Doug, Here is a picture of one of my old basses that I had posted in an earlier thread on this topic, plus a scan of an old Guitarist article from 1985. Should be what you need. Oh and welcome to Basschat.

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Edit: Scanned first page a second time to A4 size.[/quote]


Thank you so much, this is exactly what I was looking for, now to get onto ibanez! Very much appreciated, Doug.

hi this is doug wilkes here . slightly incensed couse ibanez have done a fretted fretless bass and claimed a world first on it . as you should all know i was building all variations of fretted fretless basses in the eighties from my factory .unfortunately at the present i cant put my hands on the reviews of said instruments in guitarist and other mags at t time. any input out there would be appreciated ,doug wilkes