Alembic Guitars Club
Connecting => Swap Shop and Wish Lists => Seen on craigslist, eBay, and elsewhere => Topic started by: kungfusheriff on December 02, 2005, 11:04:07 AM
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Hard to tell if this bass matches the description of known, stolen instruments, but the seller says he bought it at police auction, which I find suspicious:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ALEMBIC-SPOILER-BASS-GUITAR-very-nice-4-string-BASS_W0QQitemZ7371652045QQcategoryZ4713QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem (http://cgi.ebay.com/ALEMBIC-SPOILER-BASS-GUITAR-very-nice-4-string-BASS_W0QQitemZ7371652045QQcategoryZ4713QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)
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what pickups are those?
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This looks to me as if it originally had Persuader electronics with P/J pickups. When you clean the picture up a bit you can see that the neck pickup is a J type with a large collar around it. I'm guessing the large collar is to cover up where the routing orignially was for the P type pickup. There are just three controls which also suggests this was originally Persuader electronics; thus the controls would have been volume/volume/filter. The knob on the filter is not stock; it may just be a replacement for a broken knob, or the electronics may have been altered.
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I emailed the seller. The serial number has been filed off.
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OMG, that neck p'up looks horrible! How bad could the P p'up have been in order to butch this bass like that? Between that and the missing S/N, it'd have to be priced like a gimme in order for me to take it home! Just my $0.02.
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There is a Persuader on the stolen instruments page.
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Could it be the same one?
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I have been informed that it is not the same one.