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Alembic products => Alembic Basses & Guitars => Topic started by: mica on May 13, 2009, 12:12:33 AM

Title: Featured Custom returns
Post by: mica on May 13, 2009, 12:12:33 AM

The Featured Custom is back. Please enjoy  All About Color (http://www.alembic.com/info/fc_allaboutcolor.html).

Title: Featured Custom returns
Post by: sonicus on May 13, 2009, 02:28:51 AM

Yet another awesome Mystery Bass !

Title: Featured Custom returns
Post by: terryc on May 13, 2009, 02:30:15 AM

Lovely bass, bet it growls like a grizzly with that ebony laminate.
Am I right in saying that early Alembics just had the logo then the name came and now it is omitted.
Mine has the name, at what point did you decide to omit the name.

Title: Featured Custom returns
Post by: jacko on May 13, 2009, 03:12:52 AM

Nice top. I like the detail maple pinstripe in the neck laminates too.
 
terry. My '96 epic has the name. My 2005 rogue doesn't but there'd be nowhere to fit it as it has the orion peghead. Neither does my 07 Mk.
 
Graeme

Title: Featured Custom returns
Post by: 57basstra on May 13, 2009, 06:51:14 AM

very, very nice!

Title: Featured Custom returns
Post by: olieoliver on May 13, 2009, 06:59:45 AM

I Like it. Simply elegant.  
 
OO

Title: Featured Custom returns
Post by: mario_farufyno on May 13, 2009, 07:14:35 AM

Hail to new Featured Custom, Alembic always exceed in woodworking!
 
* Also dig the secret society stuff, LOL.

Title: Featured Custom returns
Post by: mario_farufyno on May 13, 2009, 07:17:13 AM

How the Mirtle Body affects the Tone?

Title: Featured Custom returns
Post by: David Houck on May 13, 2009, 07:27:13 AM

Beautiful bass!  I love that Myrtle body wood!
 
Mario; Mica talks about Myrtle bodies on the Body Woods (http://www.alembic.com/info/wood_body.html) page.  Here's what she said about Myrtle:
 
The greenish color of Myrtle isn't the only distinction of this mighty wood from the Pacific northwest. On an Alembic bass, Myrtle keeps the extreme highs out of the picture and fills the bottom with solid lows. We compare it to the sound of Mahogany but with less on the top end and slightly less on the lows. Used mainly in Brown Basses and paired with a warm Mahogany neck, there is no shortage of bottom end. Myrtle is the standard body wood for the Brown Bass and an optional body wood for any Alembic.

Title: Featured Custom returns
Post by: cje on May 13, 2009, 07:30:00 AM

I'm happy to see this bass - the neck laminates are almost identical to what I'm ordering (but my instrument will have flamed maple on the outside).  Looks like a delicious combination.

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Post by: dadabass2001 on May 13, 2009, 07:56:02 AM

Very sweet indeed, and another download for my screen-saver rotation
 
Mike

Title: Featured Custom returns
Post by: senmen on May 13, 2009, 11:27:37 AM

Wow,
that is a cool bass......
Oliver (Spyderman)

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Post by: 57basstra on May 13, 2009, 11:48:06 AM

My six string '78 Series I guitar is Myrtle wood.

Title: Featured Custom returns
Post by: mario_farufyno on May 13, 2009, 06:08:18 PM

Thanks, Dave

Title: Featured Custom returns
Post by: hifiguy on May 13, 2009, 08:16:21 PM

Very subtle yet ineffably custom.  Gorgeous!

Title: Featured Custom returns
Post by: bluplirst on May 14, 2009, 04:55:55 PM

Myrtle is a beautiful wood....
 
Dear 57basstra,
 
I want your '78.
 
Sincerely,
Dan

Title: Featured Custom returns
Post by: 57basstra on May 14, 2009, 07:09:15 PM

Hey, Dan. Thanks. I notice your post here is #57. How appropriate.
 
I doubt I will ever sell this one.  
 
(I know I kinda jumped in here on the featured custom thread with my guitar; however, it is not often that Myrtle is so prominently featured.)

Title: Featured Custom returns
Post by: bassman10096 on May 18, 2009, 02:30:06 PM

What a great takeoff from the Stanleys and Brown Basses and others.  I have too many basses to justify another Alembic for a long, long time, and I'd probably want something different (in shape) from my Brown Bass, but this one would be a great cousin to my bass.  Different looks and personality, but definitely part of the same family.  Very nice.  Whoever the mystery owner is must be very pleased indeed.