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Title: 82 Spoiler with Novatone fretboards
Post by: elwoodblue on June 23, 2011, 04:18:43 PM

This (http://cgi.ebay.com/1982-Alembic-Spoiler-Bass-W-Case-NR-/320718744519?pt=Guitar&hash=item4aac53abc7 target=_blank) has come up before...pretty cool Swiss army Alembic.

Title: 82 Spoiler with Novatone fretboards
Post by: pauldo on June 23, 2011, 07:06:32 PM

Very cool.

Title: 82 Spoiler with Novatone fretboards
Post by: sonicus on June 23, 2011, 07:21:16 PM

Yes ,   Cool , But I am curious how the finger board connects to the neck and as to the transfer of resonance  through out the unit with out sympathetic vibrations and artifact anomalies that will color the sound. Plain and simple ; how well does such a system really work ?
 Any experiences around here ?

Title: 82 Spoiler with Novatone fretboards
Post by: cozmik_cowboy on June 24, 2011, 02:07:52 AM

I was curious too, Wolf, so I did some research (read Google), and it seems the original neck was planed down & a metal plate attached - the fretboards are magnetic.  In the dicussion I found, those with experience seemed split about evenly between it's ruined every bass it was put on & mine was great.  Of course, the former camp did include Roger Sadowski.....
 
Peter

Title: 82 Spoiler with Novatone fretboards
Post by: sonicus on June 24, 2011, 02:51:12 AM

Peter, Yes , I  Googled with search words 'Novatone Fretboards. I read the Talk  Bass  comments.   It seems it might  have some faults  . I see the name reference  ; Roger Sadowski .