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Title: Modified Series I Guitar Australia
Post by: slawie on June 20, 2013, 06:16:04 PM

Modified Series I guitar from 1976
 
Poetic licence used when I say modified
 
$6200.00 Negotiable
 
 
http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/bonnyrigg-heights/guitars-amps/alembic-series-1-guitar-1976/1018789593 (http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/bonnyrigg-heights/guitars-amps/alembic-series-1-guitar-1976/1018789593)
 

(http://alembic.com/club/messages/395/166401.jpg)
 
 

(http://alembic.com/club/messages/395/166402.jpg)

Title: Modified Series I Guitar Australia
Post by: pasewark on June 20, 2013, 06:20:03 PM

Proof that at least one person in Australia is on drugs.

Title: Modified Series I Guitar Australia
Post by: that_sustain on June 20, 2013, 06:56:50 PM

That's a little unfortunate.  No breaks on the neck, though.

Title: Modified Series I Guitar Australia
Post by: jacko on June 21, 2013, 04:22:53 AM

ouch!
 
graeme

Title: Modified Series I Guitar Australia
Post by: jazzyvee on June 21, 2013, 05:11:39 AM

Although I can't be too hipocritical bacause I've modified one of my alembics, this does not seem a tasteful modification. I wonder if it's the same one that appeared on you tube a while back.  
 
Jazzyvee

Title: Modified Series I Guitar Australia
Post by: briant on June 21, 2013, 10:41:03 AM

This gives me a sad.

Title: Modified Series I Guitar Australia
Post by: 5a_quilt_top on June 21, 2013, 11:36:47 AM

Brutal.
 
I wouldn't wish that on any instrument - especially an Alembic.
 
Maybe the seller is charging more because of the trendy relic treatment, similar to what several major instrument makers are currently doing - ?

Title: Modified Series I Guitar Australia
Post by: jazzyvee on June 21, 2013, 11:40:27 AM

I think this is the same guitar I was thinking about. It looks similar and same year and same country, Australia in the advert and you tube video
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk8-DNeLn68 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk8-DNeLn68)
 
 
jazzyvee
 
(Message edited by jazzyvee on June 21, 2013)

Title: Modified Series I Guitar Australia
Post by: cozmik_cowboy on June 21, 2013, 11:50:35 AM

The listing says ...in great condition....
????????????!!!!!!!!!
 
Peter

Title: Modified Series I Guitar Australia
Post by: sjhoffma on June 22, 2013, 02:22:06 PM

hahaha!! Wow I needed a laugh!
 
Okay now I'll back off... the guy obviously has no Idea what he has (or I should say had) and why they merit their current pricetags, and  how everything he did to it has essentially nullified that value, aside from the beautifuly crafted wooden shell in which those unfortunate humuckers now lay... factor in the fact that he was also unaware that if the thing was in mint and original condition it still would be about $2000 less than his asking price, and then you get what we have here...

Title: Modified Series I Guitar Australia
Post by: cozmik_cowboy on June 22, 2013, 02:50:16 PM

I'm afraid, Sam, that I could not resist the urge to click the e-mail button on the listing & tell him pretty much exactly that; doesn't make me a Bad Person, does it?
 
Peter

Title: Modified Series I Guitar Australia
Post by: jon_jackson on June 22, 2013, 03:00:12 PM

Not to me, Peter. How else are they to learn?
Jon

Title: Modified Series I Guitar Australia
Post by: lbpesq on June 22, 2013, 04:38:59 PM

I sent him an email offering to buy the pickups and electronics he removed, if he still has them.
 
Bill, tgo

Title: Modified Series I Guitar Australia
Post by: sjhoffma on June 24, 2013, 10:21:51 AM

Its not impolite to educate someone, as long as its not in a rude or condescending manner. We were all noobs at one point or another.