Jason Karloff

You don't scrub up so bad yourself. Oh the bass! Sorry 😜 I wonder if there becomes a tipping point due to everyones gracious commments that I change my mind!?

Yer I just prefer my other Wal. Its probably half the value of this one, but value can't just be measured in monetary terms.

You are spot on. It had the works done to it including a full restoration on the finish. So yer add the 310 plus the 600 and a bit more. I wanted it to be in as good a condition as possible.

Thanks for the kind words.

I should retell the story of when I bought it way back in the shop. Because for decades I thought the bloke who sold me it was a collosal cnut, but now I can appreciate his genius sales skills. I walked in big nosed, ripped jeans, gangly oik. Reaches for said instrument on the wall. He pretty much said word for word Don't touch that you big nosed, ripped jeans... Etc You could never afford that. Which of course meant I just had to buy it. To show him not to judge people. (even if he was right) haha So I can see it for what it was. Genius strategy

Steady man. Stiff upper wotsit

For sale is my Wal MK1 Fretless built by Electric Wood in 1983. W2082 I have owned this for the last 32 years of its 38 year life so far, and I bought it in a local guitar shop in Wiltshire. I exchanged a fretted MK1 I had at the time and paid an extra 100 quid on top to own my first fretless. It is truly a superb instrument and rightly highly sort after like all the old Wal's are. The reason i'm selling it is simply that I haven't played it much since I've owned it and it's just wrong that something that amazing isn't doing what it should be doing. Some one else should have the opportunity to own it. I have another slightly older fretless Wal which is my go to fretless. The reason why that bass usurped this one is over the years I grown to find basses with natural wood finishes unappealing. Didn't bother me when I was a spotty teenager but now I crave colour I guess. All subjective isn't it?) So with the choice made to sell it I wanted to ensure who ever owns it next would get it in absolute A1 condition. So I took it back to see Paul at Electric Wood and told him to get it as perfect as it could possibly be. He did an amazing job and I picked it up from him just before Christmas Day. Nice for it to go home after 38 years. After I collected it I even resisted the urge to play the hell out of it and immediately put it back in the case so I know its perfect. Such will power) I saw an almost identical fretted version of this go for 6K 9 months ago. So I will sell it for the same amount and carry the cost of its time warp work back to 1983 myself. My photography skills are pretty crap. If you want anymore specific pics then please ask. Payment via bank transfer. I don't mind travelling somewhere exotic here in the U.K to hand it over if needs be. Or we can deploy the services of a capable courier to send it further afield . As long as it gets there perfectly and is insured for the full worth.