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Connecting => Swap Shop and Wish Lists => Seen on craigslist, eBay, and elsewhere => Topic started by: lbpesq on November 08, 2009, 10:22:49 AM

Title: Alembic Templates on Ebay - Real?
Post by: lbpesq on November 08, 2009, 10:22:49 AM
 Here's something (http://cgi.ebay.com/ORIGINAL-1970s-ALEMBIC-GUITAR-BASS-TEMPLATES_W0QQitemZ330375454758QQcmdZViewItemQQptZGuitar_Accessories?hash=item4cebe96026) you don't see everyday.  I wonder if they're real.  
 
Bill, tgo
Title: Alembic Templates on Ebay - Real?
Post by: elwoodblue on November 08, 2009, 11:07:21 AM
Hmmm....something I never thought I'd see,
even today. : )
 I wonder when the last time Alembic factory installed an Old Les Paul' pickup.
 
Kris
Title: Alembic Templates on Ebay - Real?
Post by: room037 on November 08, 2009, 02:52:35 PM
The large head stock template looks like Irwin's head.
I think these were Irwin's template.
 
Eiji
Title: Alembic Templates on Ebay - Real?
Post by: fmm on November 08, 2009, 02:59:32 PM
The shipping restrictions are weird (local pickup only, unless you want to deal with the UPS store, in which case they will drop off the items @ UPS).  Almost sounds like they don't want to dircetly ship across state lines...
Title: Alembic Templates on Ebay - Real?
Post by: sonicus on November 08, 2009, 07:23:58 PM
There is a template for a HI-A Bass pickup shown. I own a Bass that Doug Irwin installed a pair of Hi-A bass pickups into. Hi-A later became known as Bartolini. Doug Irwin worked on two projects for me in the 1970's. I still own one of them. I remember when he lent me one of his Doug Irwin Bass's to try out at a gig.That Bass had two Hi-A pickups in it that very well MIGHT have been routed out with the template shown. Maybe !  I Remember Doug to be quite a generous craftsman. I remember him in a positive light.
Title: Alembic Templates on Ebay - Real?
Post by: mica on November 09, 2009, 05:26:33 PM
These are not Alembic templates.
Title: Alembic Templates on Ebay - Real?
Post by: gtrguy on November 09, 2009, 06:29:39 PM
I just put an old Hi-A guitar pickup on my 76 Ibanez Howard Roberts jazz box this week. It came out of an custom guitar I bought last year. It sounds fine, I must say. I don't think I'll be seeing too many of them. Puts out around 6.3 ohms.
 
Dave