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Connecting => Swap Shop and Wish Lists => Seen on craigslist, eBay, and elsewhere => Topic started by: rv_bass on April 20, 2016, 05:37:19 AM

Title: Nice Series 1 on Ebay
Post by: rv_bass on April 20, 2016, 05:37:19 AM

Nice looking 1997 Series 1 on Ebay:
 
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Alembic-Series-I-4-string-with-Rack-Power-Supply-/282010371073 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Alembic-Series-I-4-string-with-Rack-Power-Supply-/282010371073)

Title: Nice Series 1 on Ebay
Post by: edwardofhuncote on April 20, 2016, 10:19:46 AM

Extra-purpleheart-neck-laminate-ALERT! =)
 
Bonus points for hammered brass backplates.  
 
(Message edited by edwardofhuncote on April 20, 2016)

Title: Nice Series 1 on Ebay
Post by: adriaan on April 20, 2016, 11:08:31 AM

Bonus point for reflections of garden tiles in perfectly flat brass backplates, methinks.

Title: Nice Series 1 on Ebay
Post by: StephenR on April 20, 2016, 11:44:23 AM

I also thought the back plates were hammered when I first looked, they do look excessively shiny... nice bass.

Title: Nice Series 1 on Ebay
Post by: edwardofhuncote on April 20, 2016, 12:27:50 PM

Doh!  
 
At least you guys know where my mind was! =)

Title: Nice Series 1 on Ebay
Post by: sonofa_lembic on April 24, 2016, 07:09:26 AM

35 inch scale is what scares me.  Hard enough to handle a 34 in a standard body let alone an extra inch of real estate.

Title: Nice Series 1 on Ebay
Post by: FC Bass on April 24, 2016, 07:41:18 AM

Brian is a reputable seller, so he should know. But with that position of the bridge it looks like 34 inch to me...
(in my reasoning, for 35 inch the bridge should be closer to the bridge volume control)

Title: Nice Series 1 on Ebay
Post by: FC Bass on April 24, 2016, 07:46:15 AM

I send Brian a mail and got a swift reply, he's sure its 35 inch.

Title: Nice Series 1 on Ebay
Post by: sonicus on April 24, 2016, 08:53:17 AM

It would be interesting to string this specimin with a light gauge set of strings tuned  B/E/A/D .
 
Wolf

Title: Nice Series 1 on Ebay
Post by: artswork99 on April 27, 2016, 06:36:31 AM

The backplates are plated like the other hardware... no tarnishing :-)