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Connecting => Swap Shop and Wish Lists => For Sale & Trade => Topic started by: wfmandmusic on December 13, 2012, 05:50:57 AM

Title: 1981 Distillate [RETRACTED]
Post by: wfmandmusic on December 13, 2012, 05:50:57 AM
Excellent condition Koa Distillate. $2350.00 shipped to lower 48.(http://club.alembic.com/Images/395/145490.jpg)
Title: 1981 Distillate [RETRACTED]
Post by: wfmandmusic on December 13, 2012, 03:52:19 PM
Nice bass.(http://club.alembic.com/Images/395/145515.jpg)
Title: 1981 Distillate [RETRACTED]
Post by: hammer on December 13, 2012, 09:45:03 PM
Very nice bass.  I love the look of Koa. Some additional pics would help. Good luck in your sale
Title: 1981 Distillate [RETRACTED]
Post by: wfmandmusic on December 14, 2012, 04:55:42 AM
Thanks hammer, more pics coming.32inch scale, Koa top and back, Koa headstock, I believe the center wood is walnut. Maple neck with purple heart stringers. Great shape.(http://club.alembic.com/Images/395/145540.jpg)
Title: 1981 Distillate [RETRACTED]
Post by: wfmandmusic on December 14, 2012, 04:58:56 AM
Headstock.(http://club.alembic.com/Images/395/145543.jpg)
Title: 1981 Distillate [RETRACTED]
Post by: wfmandmusic on December 14, 2012, 05:03:12 AM
Some scratches on the brass plate on the back.                 (http://club.alembic.com/Images/395/145547.jpg)
Title: 1981 Distillate [RETRACTED]
Post by: wfmandmusic on December 14, 2012, 05:05:48 AM
Back of neck.               (http://club.alembic.com/Images/395/145551.jpg)
Title: 1981 Distillate [RETRACTED]
Post by: wfmandmusic on December 14, 2012, 05:07:58 AM
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/395/145554.jpg)
Title: 1981 Distillate [RETRACTED]
Post by: wfmandmusic on December 14, 2012, 08:17:34 AM
Thanks Bill! Now I look at it again, I don't think it has a Koa back at all. It looks like two pieces. Koa top and Walnut back? I'm so not a wood expert.(http://club.alembic.com/Images/395/145566.jpg)
Title: 1981 Distillate [RETRACTED]
Post by: wfmandmusic on December 14, 2012, 08:19:35 AM
back shot straight forward.(http://club.alembic.com/Images/395/145569.jpg)
Title: 1981 Distillate [RETRACTED]
Post by: longhorncat on December 14, 2012, 08:21:30 AM
Mahogany core/back
Title: 1981 Distillate [RETRACTED]
Post by: wfmandmusic on December 14, 2012, 08:21:54 AM
side shot. sorry about the glare.(http://club.alembic.com/Images/395/145572.jpg)
Title: 1981 Distillate [RETRACTED]
Post by: longhorncat on December 14, 2012, 10:47:49 AM
Larger pic
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/395/145579.jpg)
Title: 1981 Distillate [RETRACTED]
Post by: wfmandmusic on December 14, 2012, 11:44:58 AM
That looks so much better. Thanks for the help Bill. No extra charge for the bug, lol. I love this bass and if it doesn't sell, I'll be happy to keep it. For the two projects I'm doing now, it's just not my number one 4 string fretted. If it goes, I'm sure I will regret it in the future. The 4 string fretless series 1 I got from Dave, will be with me til death do us part!
Title: 1981 Distillate [RETRACTED]
Post by: marcus43 on December 26, 2012, 10:14:39 AM
Would you do a trade for a jaydee series 1?
Title: 1981 Distillate [RETRACTED]
Post by: cozmik_cowboy on December 26, 2012, 07:29:56 PM
Looks like a mahogany body with a koa top to me.  Also looks like a really nice instrument to me (gee, someone on the Alembic Club thinks an Alembic looks like a nice instrument - imagine that!).
 
Peter
Title: 1981 Distillate [RETRACTED]
Post by: sonicus on December 26, 2012, 08:26:42 PM
Nice ! . It is a pity that you are not closer to me  ! I like it ____
Title: 1981 Distillate [RETRACTED]
Post by: colonel_sanders on December 27, 2012, 06:37:58 AM
Wow! I am in love!
 
I sent you a PM.
Title: 1981 Distillate [RETRACTED]
Post by: wfmandmusic on December 31, 2012, 03:45:48 PM
A yea, I hate to do this but I'm
 going to have to pull this bass and not sell it. There were many people interested in this bass and I appreciate that. It has become one of my basses that is just worth more to me than the market could pay.I had some nice trade offers as well but in the end, this bass is just flat out better than most of them around the same value. As I was playing it and getting re-aquainted with it, I fell in love all over again. I just don't currently use it that much but that does not mean that I won't some time in the future. Sorry for the false alarm. Have a great New Year!
Title: 1981 Distillate [RETRACTED]
Post by: flpete1uw on December 31, 2012, 04:31:33 PM
I can't say I blame you. I to have a Distillate as well as a Series 1. Even though the Series is slowly becoming my main go to Bass, the Distillate is just so reliable and easy to dial in and not to mention sounding so Dam Good! That I always find myself playing her at least once a day. Each Bass is so unique and Beautiful that unless some emergency happens I will never sell any of them.  I?m in the process of (New Year?s Resolution?)  figuring out a cool rotation so all my Ladies will not feel neglected.
Title: 1981 Distillate [RETRACTED]
Post by: sonicus on December 31, 2012, 05:43:16 PM
Well I can not blame you either! Nice Bass. I was interested ! Like I wrote in my posting 2742 above,  It is a pity that you are not closer to me. Chances are that if you were closer (  like 1 days driving distance or less) ,that nice Distillate would be mine at this time !
 
 Enjoy her , and congratulations on the rekindled love affair ______
Title: 1981 Distillate [RETRACTED]
Post by: wookie on December 31, 2012, 06:08:22 PM
Yea I'm guilty of backing out of a sale too. You're not alone ha ha! if my kids need something or health or something major came up. I'd have to sell a bass or more on the cheap but thank God it hasn't happened and I hope it never does. I love these basses! Enjoy that bad mama Jama all over again!
Title: 1981 Distillate [RETRACTED]
Post by: wfmandmusic on January 01, 2013, 02:15:37 PM
Thanks guys, you made me feel a little less guilty. It just sounded so good hooked up to my Genz Benz Streamliner 900 running through a boogie 215 cab. This bass is so versatile  and awesome I said to myself what the hell am I doing? Thanks for the retraction added to the title.
Cheers.