Building a Wal....ish
Hi all
You all know me well, I seem to never be able to stop tinkering. My latest project is something of interest to perhaps some of you.
This thread is going to be partly a narrative, and partly a way for me to try and share what I have discovered in trying to get 'the Wal sound' without getting the Wal look. Oh, and not spending either 4 years waiting for a new build or paying £8k on the second-hand market for one is something of an incentive, as well.
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A little bit more about the pickups
For those who are interested, I tried to find out as much as I could about the Wal pickups.
There are a bunch of good links from way back when on the Music Electronics Forum. Some of you may remember David Schwab, who ran SGD Lutherie, a pickup maker in the US who went bust fairly acrimoniously in 2010ish(?). At any rate, one of his projects was analysing a Wal pickup, with a view to reproducing it. He wrote a lot on that particular for
