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Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: mgod on September 09, 2013, 06:26:45 AM: I've got a 1978 Alembic guitar up at Rick Turner's shop where it'a been for, oh, 17 years, I think that's right. He took it with him when he moved there and has had it ever since, I just remembered it, and I'm going to sell it. It's a small bodied short-scale. Pictures soon to follow.
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: tmoney61092 on September 09, 2013, 06:31:51 AM: you just remembered it??? you can give it to me since you'd forgot about it anyway! :p

~Taylor
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: mgod on September 09, 2013, 09:15:06 AM: Well, you know...

I had plans for RT to do a steel fingerboard on it, but we never got around to it, and now feel like I have too many things and they're weighing me down and...
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: sjhoffma on September 09, 2013, 12:05:40 PM: What are you thinking of asking? I love my 76 Standard point, long scale guitar, but it can be a bit... big at times if you know what I mean! Posts pics whenever you can!
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: sjhoffma on September 09, 2013, 12:05:47 PM: What are you thinking of asking? I love my 76 Standard point, long scale guitar, but it can be a bit... big at times if you know what I mean! Posts pics whenever you can!
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: mgod on September 09, 2013, 04:57:31 PM: I'm hoping to get a sense of its value from around here. And yes, as soon as I have them from RT they'll go up.
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: edwin on September 09, 2013, 08:39:39 PM: Speaking of giveaways, wasn't there one in your past? Hm.

:-)

Great to see you here!
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: mgod on September 10, 2013, 09:33:32 AM: :-)
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: mgod on September 11, 2013, 03:12:39 PM: Just got phone pics of the guitar from RT. Well, it looks a lot better than I remember it, no checking. OTOH, its had a Kahler installed.
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: mgod on September 12, 2013, 07:21:04 AM: So I find myself wondering what to ask for it: on the one hand, new ones are $18,500 and this one is in unusually good shape and is already broken in - in my experience, that takes about 25 years (not kidding - my bass got amazing at 25 years and at 35 years is astounding).

On the other hand, with a new one, you can presumably get what you want for $18,500, and then there's that Kahler. What do you think?
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: mgod on September 12, 2013, 07:59:14 AM: (http://club.alembic.com/Images/395/174336.jpg)

(http://club.alembic.com/Images/395/174337.jpg)
(Message edited by davehouck on September 12, 2013)
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: lbpesq on September 12, 2013, 08:09:43 AM: Used Series guitars usually go for $2500-$3500. Originality isn't critical with older Alembics like it is in the collector guitar market, so I don't think the Kahler will adversely affect price. However some, like me, would just pass because of the Kahler. But others might find it a plus. Good luck with the sale.

Bill, the guitar one
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: keith_h on September 12, 2013, 10:35:05 AM: I see the cable but not the blue box. If you don't have the blue box this will affect the price as the new owner would need to get one. From Alembic the retail price is $595 from the last post I saw. The current street price through a dealer might be different but I don't expect it to be by much.

Keith
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: mgod on September 12, 2013, 10:58:34 AM: (Message edited by mgod on September 12, 2013)
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: mgod on September 12, 2013, 11:03:01 AM: It's all there; cable, blue box, case.
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: sjhoffma on September 20, 2013, 09:43:46 AM: Beautiful! If it didn't have the trem on there I would be jumping to buy this one off you! I still would probably bite at the right price.
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: mgod on September 20, 2013, 01:14:47 PM: Well let's see - to get rid of the trem you'd have to fill the wood and then put on a bridge, sustain block and tailpiece.
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: pace on September 20, 2013, 04:50:22 PM: Wow. I wonder how pinch harmonics and dive-bombs sound thru SI pickups..... if its too shrill I guess you could just rip them out and put some Duncan Screamin' Demons or EMG-85's in there....

Joking aside, thats a wonderful Alembic, Dan!... I have the same Kahler on one of my Guilds... do you recall what it's mounted on?!? It looks like it's atop a plate of some kind.... Best thing about broken in Alembics is that they're almost always cheaper than the $18.5K ones!!!!!
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: mgod on September 22, 2013, 06:33:22 PM: Its on the original wood. I think I was planning on pulling it out when I did a metal fingerboard.
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: edwin on September 22, 2013, 06:54:49 PM: Metal fingerboard? You mean like this?

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(Message edited by edwin on September 22, 2013)
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: edwin on September 22, 2013, 07:01:09 PM: OK, I can't get the image link to work, but you can follow it to see what I'm talking about.
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: mgod on September 22, 2013, 08:54:54 PM: Well... I think so. Maybe.
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: cozmik_cowboy on September 22, 2013, 09:12:58 PM: When I read that, I pictured something like McVie's stainless steel board that Susan calls constantly fretted; 4th post down on this thread (http://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=8072).

Peter
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: mgod on September 23, 2013, 07:31:34 AM: That's exactly what it is; McVie had one, I had the other. But mine fell apart, in 1981.
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: mgod on January 13, 2014, 01:38:59 PM: (http://club.alembic.com/Images/395/186920.jpg)
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: sjhoffma on January 16, 2014, 12:52:08 PM: Hey Dan, ever come up with an asking price? I played a very nice (but incredibly overpriced) small body series I guitar at Rudy's in NYC last month, and it made me really want one! Whole different world from my standard point body in terms of size, balance, and weight.
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: mgod on January 16, 2014, 09:02:48 PM: How much was it?
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: mgod on January 17, 2014, 10:13:38 AM: (http://club.alembic.com/Images/395/187047.jpg)
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: mgod on January 17, 2014, 10:14:30 AM
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: mgod on January 17, 2014, 10:16:24 AM
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: mgod on January 17, 2014, 10:21:34 AM: (http://club.alembic.com/Images/395/187052.jpg)
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: mgod on January 17, 2014, 10:35:24 AM: (http://club.alembic.com/Images/395/187058.jpg)
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: mgod on January 17, 2014, 10:39:55 AM: (http://club.alembic.com/Images/395/187061.jpg)
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: mgod on January 17, 2014, 10:42:13 AM: (http://club.alembic.com/Images/395/187064.jpg)
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: mgod on January 17, 2014, 10:45:26 AM: (http://club.alembic.com/Images/395/187067.jpg)
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: mgod on January 17, 2014, 10:25:12 PM: Man, I totally forgot what a joy this is to play. Really solid.
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: mgod on January 20, 2014, 10:08:24 PM: So, I'm gonna put it on ebay for about $4995 (not $5000!), and we'll see if it goes.
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: paexplorer on January 22, 2014, 10:23:47 AM: Good Luck with it. It's a neat guitar. Hope you get what you're asking.
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: pauldo on January 22, 2014, 02:11:52 PM: Pardon my ingnorance, being just a bass player I am not familiar with all of the doo-dads that guitarist have.

I see a strap button on the upper horn . . . but what is that other thing on the neck near the upper horn (seen in the moon and star pic)?
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: edwin on January 22, 2014, 02:30:28 PM: It looks like on of those strap buttons with wings on them to keep the strap on. Probably a strategy to alleviate neck dive.
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: charles_holmes on January 22, 2014, 06:50:38 PM: If that thing with the wings is for neck dive then it has to be extremely hard to play in the upper register. It look like it's placed right at the 12th fret. I love playing around the 12th fret and up...Ouch! ( ouch only If that thing literally sticks out!)
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: charles_holmes on January 22, 2014, 06:50:57 PM: If that thing with the wings is for neck dive then it has to be extremely hard to play in the upper register. It look like it's placed right at the 12th fret. I love playing around the 12th fret and up...Ouch! ( ouch only If that thing literally sticks out!)
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: charles_holmes on January 22, 2014, 06:53:00 PM: sorry bout the double post
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: mgod on January 24, 2014, 09:15:46 AM: An interesting point, but in practice it doesn't get in the way. It seems to have been placed strategically so that your hand is starting to turn, to go at an angle, by the time you get there.
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: mgod on January 24, 2014, 09:19:01 AM: By the way, its at the 19th fret, not the 12th.
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: jazzyvee on January 24, 2014, 01:33:53 PM: I'm getting a taste for the look of these older small bodied alembics that have aged gracefully.

Jazzyvee
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: mgod on January 24, 2014, 08:24:23 PM: This one is mint. Other than the Kahler String Deadener.
Title: FS: Alembic guitar , 1978
Post by: mgod on April 12, 2014, 05:43:10 AM: Well, I sold it - and the guy just disappeared when the money was due. So I'm offering it for $4k.