philw

Only 33 Wals away from mine, based on the serial number...

I can shed some light on the string-tree thing. Wals of that period originally had only a single tree holding the D & A strings. It was positioned where this OP's bass has a buried screw between the E and G tuning posts. Problem is, the single tree sometimes left the G string without quite enough break angle over the nut (this was the case on my bass). Paul H changed mine to the arrangement on the OP's bass when it went in for its first "service" after he took over the business. So the string tree isn't an issue - it's what Paul routinely does I think to fix a characteristic of basses from that period.

Lovely bass by the way, if only I was rich...

Thank god the LPB isn't fretless.

Another +1 for Manne basses. Very, very cool.

Hmm, I clicked on that link hoping I was going to like it.

Oh well :-)

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As topic titles go, there are few more open to misinterpretation than this one ...
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My thoughts exactly. Clearly we both need help.

I had one for a while - they're really nice. And in fact I still have a neck from one - on the Surf Jag:

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[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1488960036' post='3253186']
BTW, how to spell the word relicked? Should it have the k? Without it it should surely be pronounced like "released"? Or Maybe a double c? Relicced? Nah, that looks awful.
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Thing is, there's no such word as, "relicked" so the question of its spelling is academic. "Relic" is a noun not a verb. Never has been, never will be (especially now I'm in charge).

My understanding of the new CITES regs is that it doesn't matter when a bass was manufactured. If it contains wood from endangered species it needs certificates that prove the wood came from an acceptable source. This has been the case for a while with a number of wood species, but it's now that the rosewood species often used in guitars have been included that a spanner has well and truly been thrown in the works. Your bass, if it contains rosewood, may well be effectively unsaleable across borders - unless you can get some satisfactory paperwork from its original manufacturer that specifies where the wood came from.

OK so why did you send me off looking at a guitar auction site I wasn't previously aware of. Damnit!

[quote name='julesb' timestamp='1487632978' post='3241450']
It's a 1998 bass so things like Aerial, 50 words, directors cut I imagine with Kate Bush. I think he was house bassist at abbey rd and real world so lots of different stuff going on there including Bond soundtrack stuff.
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Ah, yes, if I'd read the OP post properly I would have seen it's 1998. Long after Giblin's Wal period.

Wow! Really lovely bass, but I always thought John Giblin used a Wal on his Kate Bush and John Martyn work. It was certainly a Wal on John Martyn's Grace and Danger 'cause I know the guy who produced and engineered it pretty well.

Somehow, I always knew I needed harp and fretless bass in the same instrument...

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It's almost worth buying just to see the look on the band-mate faces.

P

I reckon this is one of the coolest basses that's been on here for quite some time. Can't believe nobody's bought it!

Wow too! What a lovely thing that is.

GLWTS

Considering the wonderful old Taylor acoustic bass, the disappointment I felt on seeing the new one all but took on a physical reality.

[quote name='alyctes' timestamp='1484440314' post='3215548']
And when I need a fretted bass, the orange one comes out
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Do you know I'd completely forgotten you have them both!

Oh I so wish I still had mine! Why on earth did I sell it!

Is that the one I owned for a bit? Who knows....

[quote name='alyctes' timestamp='1483359008' post='3206445']
My reboarded fretless BEX 4 is my go-to bass.
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Glad it's still getting used :-)

BEX4s are lovely. Remarkably P-Bass like from the mag pickup and suitably woody from the piezo. They look very cool too.

Blimey that's an interesting one. My first "proper" bass was a fretted one. As was yours originally I'm sure. Are those the original tuners? They don't look quite right to me.

Have a bump anyway for an unusual bass.

P

Thomann have one of The Harley Benton models in B-Stock too - £125!

Every, just every, time I see one of these lovely basses come up for sale I feel a big pang of regret over selling my two L2s (a fretted and a fretless). Blimey that was a stupid, stupid thing to do!

GLWTS

Try Marcello at Nardelli: http://nardellibass.com. Marcello sells bodies on eBay, which is where I first found him, but he'll build and finish something custom for you. He made the body for my Surf Jag - http://basschat.co.uk/topic/287400-nbd-jagtele-mashup. It was way less than £400 (although Brexit stupidity will make it more expensive than I paid now).

Phil

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1476431181' post='3154152']
IMHO the more prized contribution to packing a bass is the bubble-wrap. I get loads with the stuff my company ships out to me, but where do others get it from? Or do you always sell a bass with a case? Otherwise, what-else do you do to protect the bass inside the cardboard?

(I too should get some work done too now )
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Bubble-wrap can usually be bought at storage companies (like Big Yellow). Last resort though 'cause it's not cheap.

[quote name='Mykesbass' timestamp='1476430263' post='3154144']
Fair point Phil, although I am that man who did have a personal relationship - had a mate working in the store for a few years!! But yes, a lot of the staff do seem quite transient, and I would be a stranger in there now.
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See, I knew there'd be one! Really like your Modlock blog by the way - about time you wrote a new post though (although I'm a fine one to talk on that score).

Better to do some proper work now (well, after some breakfast and a coffee) rather than post nonsense on basschat :-)

P