Doug Wilkes Custom

[dub_junkie]

Bought Waynesworld's Doug Wilkes off him at the weekend. Sound, feel and playability are top notch. Been taking it to rehearsals and the Sadowsky Metroline stayed in its bag the whole time.

Bodywork is tulipwood/poplar and the 24 fret neck is birdseye maple. I think the pickups are Bartolini MMC and the preamp is a Bartolini NTMB+F.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Rich]

Wow. The only Wilkes bass I've ever laid hands on was a fretless with the big slap plates in the fingerboard, that was a proper monster. This looks gorgeous. What's the string spacing at the bridge? Looks like 17 or so in the pics?

[dub_junkie]

Believe it is 17mm. It's easy going across the strings, which I like 🙂

[Owen]

A nice honest piece of wood there. I like it.

[Bernmeister]

Yeah! I remember the Wilkes basses from the early days, where a lot of their basses had percussive plates on the last few frets 

to help with the slap technique. 

On 13/05/2025 at 11:26, Rich said:

Wow. The only Wilkes bass I've ever laid hands on was a fretless with the big slap plates in the fingerboard, that was a proper monster. This looks gorgeous. What's the string spacing at the bridge? Looks like 17 or so in the pics?