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Title: The June Featured Custom is up!
Post by: David Houck on June 02, 2011, 05:04:34 PM
The June Featured Custom is now up, and this is a very cool instrument!!!  I think a number of us can probably relate to the influences that went into this one; and the work that Susan and Mica did on the art is very very cool!  Beautiful guitar! (http://www.alembic.com/info/fc_mindmeld.html)  Congrats Thomas!
Title: The June Featured Custom is up!
Post by: crobbins on June 02, 2011, 05:11:49 PM
Beam me up Scotty. Very cool.
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Post by: artswork99 on June 02, 2011, 05:25:59 PM
Really nice guitar, congratulations Thomas!
Title: The June Featured Custom is up!
Post by: tbrannon on June 02, 2011, 05:32:36 PM
Those wooden 'push buttons' are COOL!
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Post by: sonicus on June 02, 2011, 05:38:25 PM
Beautiful & Cool !  
    Congratulations_____
Title: The June Featured Custom is up!
Post by: tubeperson on June 03, 2011, 07:45:46 AM
Talk about pushing all of the right buttons.  This museum piece is awesome.  The detail is incredible, from the wooden buttons (add this beauty to the sexiest Alembic list) to the body sandwich of Coco Bolo, vermillion, maple and mahogany, to the Mindmeld medallion etc.  Even the Coco Bolo mount for the Roland input jack reaks of perfection. Quite outstanding.  I'd be too afraid to play her she is that gorgeous!
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Post by: hifiguy on June 03, 2011, 08:20:36 AM
Star Trek and Alembic - two of my most favorite things in the world brought together at last.  How perfect is that?
 
 
Though I prefer STNG to TOS......
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Post by: benson_murrensun on June 03, 2011, 08:56:50 AM
That one is over-the-top COOL.
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Post by: lbpesq on June 03, 2011, 11:40:02 AM
Most excellent Tribute!  Love the neckthru.
 
But Next Generation over Kirk, Spock, Bones, Scotty, Uhuru, Chekov, Nurse Chapel, etc.?  No way!  I could never get past that guy, (Gordy?), wearing a hair band across his eyes. lol
 
Bill, tgo
Title: The June Featured Custom is up!
Post by: hydrargyrum on June 03, 2011, 11:55:53 AM
Ah jeez, are we going to get into a Trekker vs Trekkie debate?  This is a great watch for those who are scratching their heads: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120370/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120370/)
 
/Play it in good health, or should I say, live long and prosper.
Title: The June Featured Custom is up!
Post by: sonicus on June 03, 2011, 12:08:46 PM
Make it so , take us to the Delta Quadrant  @ Warp 9  
 
     I hope this awesome instrument is part of ; The Transitive Nightfall Of Diamonds ______
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Post by: briant on June 03, 2011, 04:51:47 PM
Saw this baby in the shop back in January as well.  It's a really amazing piece to see in person.
Title: The June Featured Custom is up!
Post by: oddmetersam on June 04, 2011, 08:25:28 AM
Thomas,
It's fitting that  Tributes always evoked the space age with those distinctive horns...now in Star Trek trim it's even more so. What a beautiful guitar. Some where out near the Neutral Zone, Gene Roddenberry is smiling. Even Mr. Worf (my fave character -- Michael Dorn went to my high school) would approve!
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Post by: terryc on June 04, 2011, 10:01:52 AM
One bloody nice guitar!!!!
Ibpesq..it's Geordie(stolen from the accent of the people of Newcastle upon Tyne UK)
How do the people at Alembic cut those intricate inlays??  Do they use a laser cutter or surgical blades?? The detail is outstanding, the finishing is outstanding..I wouldn't dare gig that guitar at all.
Title: The June Featured Custom is up!
Post by: jacko on June 07, 2011, 04:14:21 AM
Wow! that is so cool.
 
Graeme
Title: The June Featured Custom is up!
Post by: David Houck on June 09, 2011, 05:30:11 PM
Terry; there is a description of how the inlays for this guitar were made here (http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Replicator).
Title: The June Featured Custom is up!
Post by: terryc on June 20, 2011, 03:54:33 AM
very funny dave...so they use replicators eh???
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Post by: glocke on June 20, 2011, 06:19:59 PM
An almost invisible feature, the push button switches that control the scrolling function are tiny mounds of Coco Bolo that barely break
 
hmmm...huh???
Title: The June Featured Custom is up!
Post by: mica on June 20, 2011, 06:31:11 PM
Perhaps not the best choice of words there! I should maybe replace break with crest or similar.
Title: The June Featured Custom is up!
Post by: glocke on June 20, 2011, 06:40:07 PM
Dont think its your word choice...I just dont understand the function of the switches, what is the scrolling function?
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Post by: mica on June 20, 2011, 06:43:53 PM
Oh - it's for the Roland pickup, to scroll through the patches.