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Title: Birds of Prey Inlay
Post by: stickk on April 20, 2009, 12:10:58 PM: Anyone have any pictures of this inlay?
Title: Birds of Prey Inlay
Post by: 57basstra on April 20, 2009, 01:26:53 PM: Hello, Stickk, welcome to the club. I have a Classical acoustic guitar with a large eagle inlay on the lower part of the guitar. I do not know if this is what you are asking about. I will try to upload a pic. Good luck.
Title: Birds of Prey Inlay
Post by: mica on April 20, 2009, 01:34:03 PM: I'll rummage around, I'm sure I have a least a snapshot or two.
Title: Birds of Prey Inlay
Post by: stickk on April 22, 2009, 12:04:08 PM: Anybody?
Title: Birds of Prey Inlay
Post by: altgrendel on April 22, 2009, 12:17:02 PM: Hi Stickk, and welcome.

Mica's probably your best bet since she's at the Mothership (the main office). She's probably rather busy so it may take some time.
Title: Birds of Prey Inlay
Post by: mica on April 23, 2009, 07:41:40 PM: The Birds of Prey Inlay is a series of just that - 10 birds of prey with details like flight feathers distinctly drawn. I've got pictures of ones from the old days of film - I just can't find it for you just yet. What I was able to find on short notice are my mother's original drawings.
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/64317.jpg)

(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/64318.jpg)

(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/64319.jpg)

(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/64320.jpg)

(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/64321.jpg)
Note that not all of these silhouettes made it in the final collection. It's been a while since we have been called to make this inlay. Once we're a little more caught up on the inlay work promised to customers, maybe I can convince my mom to do a Birds of Prey inlay for a guitar in our showroom. It might take a very long time, but when I find a photo of the inlay, I will post it on the Club.
Title: Birds of Prey Inlay
Post by: olieoliver on April 23, 2009, 07:45:58 PM: Mica, Mom's got skillzz!!!

OO
Title: Birds of Prey Inlay
Post by: gregduboc on April 24, 2009, 02:20:31 PM: I can only imagine how that would look on a bass.... Impressive, at least.
Maybe someone should order a bass with this inlay, so we can all see how it looks. Any one?

Greg
Title: Birds of Prey Inlay
Post by: mario_farufyno on April 24, 2009, 04:03:32 PM: Mica, you've made a custom Birds of Prey Essence and got pics of it. I've just printed a picture of it on Alembic's Site back in 1997. It was shown in Custom Gallery along the following text:

James is holding a special order Essence bass for a costumer in Texas. The was (sic) the first Birds of Prey inlay we made

I can send it to you, but my printer at the time had very low resolution. Unfortunatelly the image is very pixelated and in B&W only.
Title: Birds of Prey Inlay
Post by: mario_farufyno on April 24, 2009, 04:05:57 PM: Uh...

(sic) in acient Latin means that I literally transcribed the text as it was writen.
Title: Birds of Prey Inlay
Post by: mica on April 24, 2009, 05:12:39 PM: Thanks for remembering! That made it much easier for me to locate the image:
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/64356.jpg)
Title: Birds of Prey Inlay
Post by: 57basstra on April 24, 2009, 05:15:08 PM: very nice
Title: Birds of Prey Inlay
Post by: stickk on April 24, 2009, 08:32:45 PM: Thanks Mica!
Title: Birds of Prey Inlay
Post by: David Houck on April 25, 2009, 04:48:45 AM: And thanks Mario!
Title: Birds of Prey Inlay
Post by: jalevinemd on April 25, 2009, 09:49:35 AM: Paul Reed Smith, eat your heart out!
Title: Birds of Prey Inlay
Post by: hydrargyrum on April 27, 2009, 07:42:18 PM: Not only does sic mean literally transcribed in acient (sic) Latin, it also means literally transcribed in ancient Latin as well.

/Sorry I couldn't resist!
Title: Birds of Prey Inlay
Post by: cozmik_cowboy on April 27, 2009, 07:47:23 PM: Nor could I - what does it mean in modern Latin?

Peter
Title: Birds of Prey Inlay
Post by: mario_farufyno on May 05, 2009, 12:17:54 AM: Glad to be helpfull, Dave and Mica.

Kevin, as I don't speak english (I'm brazilian and we just talk in portugese) sometime is dificult to understand all that you write here. Is also dificult to me to express myself gracefully as I wanted to. I always feel that I'm writing as some little kid or worst. So I wasn't shure if The was the first 'Birds of Prey' inlay we made could be correct (and tried to make clear that wasn't me who wrote that way).

I'm still not shure if this is correct and will be glad if you could teach me.

Anyway, I didn't know if you (english spoken guys) ordinarily use terms like sic or other latin words. Peter, in Brazil we use sic to describe any identical transcription and my choice in saying acient latin was just motivated by the fact most americans seems to take latin as just some mexican thing (forgeting most modern european/western countries were influenced by old Roman culture).

(Message edited by Mario Farufyno on May 05, 2009)
Title: Birds of Prey Inlay
Post by: adriaan on May 05, 2009, 12:36:04 AM: Mario, don't worry, they were just making a few harmless jokes off of your typing error. (Modern Latin - would that be salsa rather than rumba?)

I can't be the only one here who took ancient Latin in school.
Title: Birds of Prey Inlay
Post by: hydrargyrum on May 05, 2009, 06:39:57 AM: Mario,

No worries. Your English is actually quite good, and as Adriian said, I was trying to make a rather bad, but harmless joke. North Americans do tend to think of anything from Mexico on south as Latin America, but sic is not an uncommon term. We also use et. cetera, i.e (id est), and E.g. (exempli gratia) with some frequency, and there are others that also appear regularly.