1985 Wal MK1 - Walnut - OHSC

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1985 Wal Custom MK1 in very good condition. Solid American Walnut body, Indian ebony fingerboard, gold-plated hardware. Serial number: W2599. Nut width: 43 mm / depth at 1st fret: 22 mm. Weight: 10 lbs 4 oz / 4.65 kg.

The body has numerous small scuffs and scratches, along with some buckle rash. There's also some wear on the face around the controls. The neck is very clean with very little wear. The same can be said for the headstock. The frets have been cleaned and re-crowned in our workshop and are in great condition with plenty of life left in them. The truss rod works as it should. 

It's been set up with a set of La Bella flat-wound strings.  The electronics all work as they should. It has Wal flat response, humbucking pick-ups that contain individually matched pick-ups for each string, thus eliminating imbalances. It has a built-in balanced XLR DI and a standard ¼ “jack output for amplifier feed.

CONTROLS

Volume Knob: Rotary adjustment of output volume; pull to actuate pick-attack. A narrow band of high frequencies is added to the overall tone-setting to provide a dynamic, percussive attack. Both the overall output level and the level of pick-attack are trimmable from inside the bass.

Pick-up Mixing Knob: This silently mixes the levels of the pre-EQ'd pick-ups to any desired ratio whilst keeping the combined output level constant.

Tone-Knobs: These operate electronic, low-pass filters whose roll-off frequencies vary with the position of the control. Fully clockwise at 10, the spectrum is full and flat. As the controls are backed off, the spectrums of the appropriate pick-ups are foreshortened. (Roll-off 12dB / Octave). The dominant tone character varies, therefore, throughout the entire range of control. Pulling up the knob produces a quasi-parametric boost of about 10dB to the harmonics