A HISTORY OF WAL BASSES

The Wonderful World of the Woods of Wal – Part 2, Bodies In this second feature looking at the woods employed by Wal in building ...

The Wonderful World of the Woods of Wal – Part 1, Necks In Ian Waller and Pete Stevens the early 1970s cooked up a perfect recipe...

JG1124 - John Glascock's JG bass, and  JG1127 - Theo de Jong's first JG bass JG1114 - Pete Hurley's (Lone Star) JG bass  ...

JG1147 - Gary Tibbs' JG Bass JG1148 - Theo de Jong's second JG bass Our last two JG basses are a couple of celebrity sp...

JG1128 - John Entwistle's fretless JG bass JG1145 - “Snotburst” JG In the second and third of the JG bass galleries as p...

JG1117 - Phillip Knight's JG bass. JG1113 - Pete Zorn's JG bass JG1117 It's funny how sometimes life stores th...

John Gustafson's original JG bass (JG1112) and Martin Elliott's solid ash Custom Series basses John Gustafson in 1978 with the...

Every so often something comes along in life that forces you to reevaluate. Sometimes it's something foundational and Earth-shatt...

1983 Rosewood-topped Reissue Passive Pro One of the great things about a brand like Wal is that a mix of two inquiring minds and a ...

Wal Basses the early years Over the last half a century some incredible bass guitars have come from these shores. From the “yeah ...

Published obituaries in the music press for Ian Waller and Pete Stevens This post gathers together some of the obituaries for Ian and Pete...

Of all my favourite memories of 2015, one of the longest lasting will be a Saturday in September spent at the "Basschat South East Ba...

That's it really. Just an opportunity to post in one place some photos of two of the best bass builders this country has and will ever s...

Double-necked Wal basses. Over the years Electric Wood have made a number of double-necked basses.   Although not exactly common ...