TrevorR

Slightly OT but only slightly... I’ve always wondered how mass production of leftie guitars (and related family instruments) came about, given that pretty much every other instrument family gives no concession to handedness... certainly all the classical instruments where adherence to accepted technique is king.. Why the divergence for guitars and basses etc?

But you also probably know many more who are leftie and play rightie but never ever mention it... coz it’s not a problem for them. There’s no hard and fast rule. I’m in this camp. Completely left handed for everything except using a knife and fork, blowing my nose and playing bass. Never regretted it - and I wouldn’t have my no 1 and no 2 basses if I had given the relative rarity of leftie second hand Wals.

Ash over mahogany? The grain is lively (I meant to type “lovely” but that works too, lol!). I hope it’ll be a nice translucent finish.

Looking at the Warwick Custom shop website their prices seem to start at about €6k and go up to €9k. Presuming that they are built in a similar fashion to the above with significant shaping being done by CNC cutters with hand finishing it throws a new light on the €6.2k starting price for a completely hand built Wal...

You keep thinking of it as a bass guitar, which is where you're going wrong and getting all confused! It's not MEANT to be a bass for someone to buy and play. It is 1) a piece of sculpture based around a bass guitar theme, 2) a "collectable" one-off item, and 3) a piece of marketing. That's not to say that it's not a stupid idea but, as others have said, there are fat walleted collectors who would lap up that sort of thing to put in a glass case in their collection - as an objet d'art. Frankly there's a bit of me that's surprised that they're only charging 5k... That sort of "art piece" could probably go for 20k to a well-heeled Warwick enthusiast!!! It's a mad old world!!

Sand blaster!!!!!!

They hit it with a sandblaster!!!! Look at the bolt coming in from the edge to help stabilise the neck!!!!! Aaaaarrrggghhh!!!!!

No worries. It won’t be my guitar he picks up...

For many years it was this. No pedals bar a Lehle switcher and a tuner... Now it’s more likely to be... ...with just the LMII and the 2x10.

Summer weather always makes me pull out the first album by the lovely Stephanie Kirkham. Pure summer vibes for me! ...and/or a track she did a few years ago...

Well a hey dum a do dum a die... Whack fol me daddio!!!

And pop over to the Facebook Wal fans page to see if there are any Surrey based fretless owners.

Cracking track!

Just saw this today. It’s wonderful!

Used a Boss TU for years but love my PolyTune pedal. So another vote for TC.

I’m rather fond of this one... the Beatles and Bon Jovi

I always liked that one. Another fave was a cover band I saw advertised called By Jovi. And I always thought that "Magic - A Kind of Queen" was rather elegant!

On my Aria SB700 I'll use fully open, fully off and backed off a wee bit (that's a technical term).

Yeah, but none of us in the band actually liked DM... of the 150+ odd songs outside our core song lists we could busk through with a cheat sheet for a special request DM did not feature once!

Rather that than what Martin Guitars did a few years ago. Did a signature guitar for someone who might have been famous in the popular music world but wasn’t actually known as a guitar player or performer of any sort (he did some keys and arrangements for an obscure band you’ve probably never heard of)... Step forward the Martin Guitars George Martin signature acoustic gutiar...

We used to do that one... good as a end of the night smoochy one. We had a sax player so it figured. Speaking of which, given our line up was drums, bass, sax and male singer who doubled on acoustic and electric guitar, the request that really flummoxed me was the guy who came up and asked in all seriousness whether we did any Depeche Mode or Yahoo. “Sorry mate, we’re not really set up for it?” “Huh?” Points at stage, “Erm, can you see any synthesisers?” “Oh yeah, fair enough.”

Our B/L would say, “We'll learn it for next time.” Which, since we did a lot of weddings, seemed to show very little faith in the bride and groom’s chances!

Had mine 20+ years. Still going strong!

I have one of these. They’re brilliant... https://www.zoro.co.uk/shop/welding--brazing-and-soldering/soldering-irons-and-stations/8100udk-expert-soldering-kit/p/ZT1000919X?utm_campaign=pla-Welding%2c+Brazing+%26+Soldering+-+&utm_source=google&utm_medium=shopping-pla&utm_keyword=ZT1000919X&istCompanyId=6aa6787b-063e-4414-802d-129f235df603&istItemId=wtqiiqqapm&istBid=tztx&gclid=CjwKCAjwpIjZBRBsEiwA0TN1r_QHzI0nyvV2mp1Fw8lTt4RtDR8n6eP8BwbluRR50aAwsY5iiVweEhoCZy0QAvD_BwE

And there’s a Levy’s one at Andertons about 3 links down on the Google search... ...the Union Flag ones look cooler, though.