RonC

Gluboost works great! I already did a lot of repairs with it. You can even use it for lacquer, i recently sanded a complete neck and used fill and finish to finish it, then a bit of polishing and it looks like new!.

very cool, looks great! where did you get the knobs? they look original.

I recently purchased two slap lesson books of Barend Tromp; Next level slap bass. I've always had problems with double thumping, it just didn't work for me. Barend has a different approach double thumping and other slap techniques. Great books and video's! check it out! https://nextlevel-slapbass.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@nextlevelslapbassvolume1263/videos

nope... i think i've misread the post.. 😬

And don't forget the late Mick Karn..

I think about 3 Kg... i'll weigh it this week to be sure!

Here's a video a good friend of my made:

I recently picked up my new Safran Semi Acoustic. Umut Dal build it for me. This one is different compared to his "standard"semi acoustic. I wanted the semi acoustic as a single cut. This was a bit of a challenge cause the semi acoustic has a single coil mounted under the fretboard (together with a piëzo in the bridge). The normal semi acoustic has a bold-on neck so the PU can me mounted on the body before attaching the neck. With my bass the PU is glued to the bottom of the fretboard. It has a cedar body with a palo naranja top, maple neck with purpleheart centre stripe, ebony fretboard, bridge and tailpiece. Custom handwound PU, custom piezo in the bridge, John East MPM02 Preamp, volume & blend control in the recessed in the tailpiece. 34"scale. La Bella Deep Talking Bass 760N Black nylon tape wound string. It plays very smooth and sounds lovely, it sounds very "woody"and almost like an upright. Especially the blend between the magnetic and the piezo PU is gives a lot of variety in sound. Here are some pics of the building process and the end result.

I recently contacted Paul because I wanted to sand the fretboard of my fretless MK1 (83). Paul told me 4 strings had a 13.5 inch radius. I sanded my fretless to 14” now.

That's a great bass! i believe Percy Jones playes these too.

The original pots are Radiohm P20E, but they aren't available anymore. Paul used to have (or maybe still has) exact replacements for these. P20E.pdf

In action:

Paul used to have spare ones, years ago I ordered a set for my ProIIe. don't know if he still has them..

[quote name='MC1970' timestamp='1324544563' post='1475310'] Hi all BCers, I received an email fm Paul with attached pics of the available tops, and as stated by him my bass' ETD will be mid Jan - early Feb..... I was watching other new Wals pictures, and the last two basses spotted did not have the string retainer on the headstock; was it a customer's request or is it one of the "improvements" being made by Paul work in progress? Thanks, M. [/quote] Hi, The String retainer is just not installed yet. They all come with a string retainer! Cheers, Ron

[quote name='Francesco' timestamp='1316201993' post='1375913'] It certainly looked like an oldie. Thanks. @ it seems it has some kind of black stripe in the center of the body. Is that an Wal option? [/quote] That's right, They often used to place a center stripe between the two bookmatched laminated facings.

[quote name='Francesco' post='1375393' date='Sep 16 2011, 01:28 PM']It looks like an old one, if you look at the stringtree. Is it made bij Paul, the guy who runs Wal basses? [/quote] No, you are right, it's an old one(80's i believe)! I meant pete or wal... (i editted my previous post).

[quote name='wombatboter' post='1375355' date='Sep 16 2011, 01:01 PM']From what I've heard it's a sort of chemically treated maple..also my favourite one in the picture[/quote] That's right! This one also has a thinner body, the previous owner wanted a less heavy Wal so Pete or Wal used a thinner piece of corewood. (it's not mine btw.)

[quote name='purpleblob' post='1336963' date='Aug 11 2011, 09:28 PM']Guys thanks for the kind words. So far I have nothing but glowing things to say about the quality, the look, the feel and the sound of this instrument. You're absolutely spot on AndroWal, the ergonomics and the balance, weight etc. make this the most comfortable instrument I own (I admit I'm in the honeymoon period at the moment so I probably would say this ). lozbass, totally agree with you. Paul is producing some awesome instruments. Also if you talk to Paul you get the feeling that he's somebody who really cares about what he's doing and strives to produce the best. Whilst I was at the workshop Paul appeared to be putting the finishing touches on, what I think was a flamed maple bodied, MK1 - it was absolutely stunning. Anyway, I suppose I'd better start saving for a fretted MKIII next [/quote] Could it be this one? At the 12th of august i picked up my MK1 sycamore Wal at the workshop, which looks a bit like flamed maple. I totally agree with you about Pauls craftmanship! Here's a pic of my collection: All of these were at the dutch wal meeting too!

My 2 Wal's: A fretted proIIe(1979) and a fretless MK1(1986)