Alembic Guitars Club
Connecting => Swap Shop and Wish Lists => Seen on craigslist, eBay, and elsewhere => Topic started by: pace on April 21, 2013, 02:54:36 PM
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http://boston.craigslist.org/bmw/msg/3757164348.html
Price is right if you're local!
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Nice price ! If I were over there I would grab it .
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If someone wants I could probably hook you up with my brother in law. I bet he'd pick it up and ship it for someone.
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If someone wants I could probably hook you up with my brother in law. I bet he'd pick it up and ship it for someone.
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Wow. Those are NICE basses. Damned near bought one myself 20 years ago in my pre-Alembic days.
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These were from the 80's when Hartley had made the investments to really build nice guitars in Mississippi.
These came in two versions, p/u-wise. The first had those utterly horrible single-coil 'Super Ferrite' pickups also used in Dyna Basses of that era: Combined with that tone circuit, it was just dreadfully thin IF you wanted an open clean sound. Cranked with a bunch of 100hz thru SVT's nobody noticed.
This is with the much better, then-new VFL pickups, no doubt modeled a LOT after AXY's. This particular axe is cheap enough I'd buy it, junk the Peavey vol/tone network and replace with a Bart or EMG vol/tone/3-band replacement (after all, the holes are already there), and have a ball. Well built enough to last a long time. If it's sound body-wise and no issues, that's a lot of bass for $350.
J o e y
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I recently picked up one of these for $425 and think it was a steal. This is a REALLY NICE bass in every way. The build is first rate. I happen to like the electronics/pickups - fat & focused with nice girth. It sits in the mix wonderfully.
I recommend this bass highly - and I agree, it's whole lot bass for that kind of money.