Bill,
Congratulations!  It is really a beautiful bass.  Play it Healthy!
Art

More later.

I think that look pretty much says it all.
 
Good stuff.

Yeah.  We're busy making friends.  Thanks

Congratulations Bill. That Brown is a beauty.

Finally quit playing long enough to take a couple of pix.  I am just marvelling at how well the fingerboard dimensions (a combination of standard and custom), vintage sized frets, scale fit me.  I've never played a bass that felt this much like it was tailored to fit.  





 



  (Message edited by bassman10096 on April 18, 2008)

Nice pics!  I like the effect the top has in the top left picture.

Thanks, Dave.  I'm going to have to get some non-flash pix in natural light - the flame is much more pronounced than these pictures show.  Mica told me the top and back had been sitting in a pile for years, probably because they looked plain.  Ironic.

Congratulations Bill. That's a beautiful bass with an amazing grain pattern. Enjoy!

Very nice! I like the myrtle core, it goes great with the other woods. Makes me want to get one, very tempting!

The myrtle was the biggest surprise.  It's got a lot of wild grain, coloring and burls.

Beautiful bass Bill!!
Does it sound like Stanley's brown bass??
Albeit different amps/settings  can change the sound dramatically--still you have what looks like a SF2, so that should make it sound like any bass you want.
Enjoy her----------she's the bizz
 
George

Thanks George:  I don't play enough like Stanley (not even remotely) to say for certain, but the bass has much of the tone capability of a Series bass (this I can say from experience) given separate filters and Q switches for each channel.  Suffice it to say I've found a lot of sounds I like that really fit what I play.  
 
The really cool things about it are the feel (very comfortable, easy to reach the whole neck, vintage Fender-sized frets) and the clarity of every note.  The latter has been a characteristic of every Alembic I've played and is a mixed blessing -- On one hand, this clarity begs me to articulate more of the details I often think, but don't play (because who'd be able to hear them)...But, mistakes get heard - including little parts of grooves I never realized were not harmonically correct (Ouch).
 
I'm loving it.
 
Bill (the other one)

Congrats again, Bill
A beatiful bass once again. I'm a real sucker for walnut, so I'm jealous as heck. A brown bass is somewhere in my future.
 
Mike

Bill,
 
Another very tasty wood combination. Such a classic looking Alembic. Congrats.