Alembic Guitars Club
Connecting => Swap Shop and Wish Lists => Seen on craigslist, eBay, and elsewhere => Topic started by: tbrannon on November 24, 2007, 02:01:19 PM
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'79 Series I (http://cgi.ebay.com/1979-Alembic-One-Off-Custom-Order-4-String-Bass-WOW_W0QQitemZ330192231806QQihZ014QQcategoryZ4713QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)
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Nice! You don't see too many S1 Exploiters. The A and D tuners are not in the proper alignment. It looks like the center screw that holds both tuners down may be missing.
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The screw is there, the tuner hold down tabs are broken.
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That was something Alembic did on narrow cone headstocks. The two tuners come too close together, so they clipped them and held them down with a single screw. Not the best design, but generally functional. Nothing a dab of epoxy or some such wouldn't improve upon.
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Yes bsee is correct, I own a Exploiter/Spoiler that I purchased off Ebay from the original owner, its all factory original and the tuners are the same way, it has no issues cause of this.
no epoxy needed.........
BeeLee
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And it's short-scale! ARRRGH!
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bsee - that's not really a narrow cone headstock. Check the Spoiler on my profile, that's what I call .
Of course mine has the same issue with the single screw holding the A and D tuners, but it's still keeping everything in place (cross fingers).
Somehow it doesn't look like a true short scale.
(Message edited by adriaan on November 26, 2007)