Alembic Guitars Club

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Title: 1980 Alembic???
Post by: FC Bass on April 13, 2007, 10:23:34 AM

Says Best sounding custom Alembic ever made...: Click here (http://muziek.marktplaats.nl/snaarinstrumenten-gitaren-bas/87593469-de-alembic-bas.html?return=eJxNzMsKwjAQBdB%2FKdhdm0fVxpQi%2BidRg4bmRWaKVfHfTcSFmzvnDsMoyeTLSDqA5FTI6pTCHfRwQ4ySkClE7Vun0oTRKoXQekvc%2FDR6arRvjAdMs9MetSfglUr%2Fm%2BZqUKU8TwrIuV%2F37Q2d3ceR1eb6DRgFrRebfYERw6o7sFV3tDkOPReFvHDdF2Lm08TCJZNTKvj3%2FJHbZtsxscstzr8vAUy5qob3By%2FvRxQ%3D#photo target=_blank)
 

(http://alembic.com/club/messages/395/38686.jpg)

Title: 1980 Alembic???
Post by: mica on April 13, 2007, 10:39:22 AM

Um, no.

Title: 1980 Alembic???
Post by: the_mule on April 13, 2007, 10:47:43 AM

Pickups and electronics seem to be genuine..?
 
Wilfred

Title: 1980 Alembic???
Post by: FC Bass on April 13, 2007, 10:56:24 AM

Here's another picture:  
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/395/38689.jpg)

Title: 1980 Alembic???
Post by: bsee on April 13, 2007, 11:01:09 AM

After-hours special?

Title: 1980 Alembic???
Post by: olieoliver on April 13, 2007, 11:08:37 AM

Maybe after HAPPY-hour special.
 
Weird body shape.

Title: 1980 Alembic???
Post by: 88persuader on April 13, 2007, 12:53:11 PM

Is it neck through construction?

Title: 1980 Alembic???
Post by: mica on April 13, 2007, 01:49:02 PM

The pickups look like SC-1/AXY pickups and have the expected type of mounting. I can't tell if the electronics are Alembic, can't see 'em.
 
The tailpiece and bridge don't look quite right to me. The logo isn't right. No comment on the body shape. Neck to body area of the neck is also not in our style. Serial number?
 
I've never seen this instrument before, so I sorta doubt from the claimed age it's one that was made here. My guess is that some of the parts were used from a Series I bass that may have suffered some irrepairable damage.

Title: 1980 Alembic???
Post by: cozmik_cowboy on April 13, 2007, 03:11:26 PM

Hey, Flip, can you do a crop-and-zoom on the headstock like you did the body? I can't figure out how to do it, and I'd like to see the logo if we could.  Thanks.
 
Peter

Title: 1980 Alembic???
Post by: Bradley Young on April 13, 2007, 04:18:25 PM

Don't crop the headstock.  I can't stand all those jiggery-pokery string ends.
 
 
 
Bradley

Title: 1980 Alembic???
Post by: mica on April 13, 2007, 05:24:10 PM

Zooming probably won't reveal much for the peghead. It looks like a Roman numeral 10 from here.

Title: 1980 Alembic???
Post by: David Houck on April 13, 2007, 06:29:42 PM

Helaas. Deze advertentie is verwijderd.

Title: 1980 Alembic???
Post by: Bradley Young on April 13, 2007, 07:02:00 PM

Mica,
 
What's really important is that it would magnify all those jangly bits.
 
Aaaaaaaaaaugh!  My eye!
 
Bradley

Title: 1980 Alembic???
Post by: FC Bass on April 14, 2007, 12:19:47 AM

I've emailed the seller yesterday and also asked for a serial number, no response yet...
 
My guess is that some of the parts were used from a Series I bass that may have suffered some irrepairable damage.  
 I was thinking the same, the bridge could be genuine I guess? (hard to see) and the truss rod cover looks like an early '80s (though easy to replicate). I also thought I've seen a tailpiece like this here on the board somewhere... I don't think it's a modified bird tail piece The screws are too far apart.
 
Helaas. Deze advertentie is verwijderd.
 Unfortunately, the ad has been removed, for those who can't read Dutch ;-)
I did report this bass and send the seller a link to this thread, maybe Mica also asked the seller to remove the ad? It's unlikely the bass was sold... It's only been on that site for a few hours.
 
(Message edited by fc_spoiler on April 14, 2007)

Title: 1980 Alembic???
Post by: FC Bass on April 16, 2007, 10:22:41 AM

It's relisted as one of a kind bass Click here (http://muziek.marktplaats.nl/snaarinstrumenten-gitaren-bas/88098437-one-of-a-kind-bas-te-ruil.html?return=eJxNzMsKwjAQBdB%2FKdhdm0fVxpQi%2BidRg4bmRWaKVfHfTcSFmzvnDsMoyeTLSDqA5FTI6pTCHfRwQ4ySkClE7Vun0oTRKoXQekvc%2FDR6arRvjAdMs9MetSfglUr%2Fm%2BZqUKU8TwrIuV%2F37Q2d3ceR1eb6DRgFrRebfYERw6o7sFV3tDkOPReFvHDdF2Lm08TCJZNTKvj3%2FJHbZtsxscstzr8vAUy5qob3By%2FvRxQ%3D#photo target=_blank)
I requested some pics of the electronics and hardware. It was sold to the seller as an Alembic, he never checked if it was genuine.