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Connecting => Swap Shop and Wish Lists => For Sale & Trade => Topic started by: keurosix on June 09, 2009, 07:41:37 PM

Title: Bass NW - Used Alembics!!
Post by: keurosix on June 09, 2009, 07:41:37 PM: 3 Really nice basses on their web:
* Flame Maple Epic 5 string fretted $1699.
* Walnut Burl 6 string lined fretless Europa Signature electronics $3999.
* Bocate 6 string fretted Rogue $3999.
Come on Lotto!!

http://www.bassnw.com/Used%20Basses/alembic_epic_5_string_bass_flame_maple.htm (http://www.bassnw.com/Used%20Basses/alembic_epic_5_string_bass_flame_maple.htm)

http://www.bassnw.com/Used%20Basses/alembic_europa_6_fretless.htm

http://www.bassnw.com/Used%20Basses/alembic_rogue_bocate_6_st_bass_.htm (http://www.bassnw.com/Used%20Basses/alembic_rogue_bocate_6_st_bass_.htm)
Title: Bass NW - Used Alembics!!
Post by: David Houck on June 09, 2009, 08:06:33 PM: Both the Flame Maple and the Mahogany on the Epic are quite nice.

The six string fretless Europa is outstanding! The fingerboard and the top are both really nice!

Very cool top on the Rogue!
Title: Bass NW - Used Alembics!!
Post by: Bradley Young on June 10, 2009, 08:08:34 AM: I've been agonizing over the Europa. It is in really great shape, and the coated fingerboard sounds really nice.

If it were cheaper...

Or they'd take my Halfling bass in trade...
Title: Bass NW - Used Alembics!!
Post by: bassjigga on June 10, 2009, 11:15:15 AM: Looks more like a coco bolo fingerboard on that Europa to me. Nice basses in any case...
Title: Bass NW - Used Alembics!!
Post by: Bradley Young on June 10, 2009, 03:31:54 PM: Yes, I should have said: the fingerboard is almost certainly cocobolo.
Title: Bass NW - Used Alembics!!
Post by: bkbass on July 01, 2009, 10:53:08 AM: I just bought the Conklin seven string fretless on the BASSNW site. It arrives today. Take a look at the fingerboard. In a blind taste test I would have sworn it was Coco Bolo, It's Ebony!
Title: Bass NW - Used Alembics!!
Post by: hieronymous on July 01, 2009, 10:58:45 AM: Nice Barry! That 7-string was tempting - looking forward to a report!
Title: Bass NW - Used Alembics!!
Post by: eligilam on July 01, 2009, 11:40:48 AM: I'm not used to seeing a crown headstock with the Europa body shape. It's ....interesting.
Title: Bass NW - Used Alembics!!
Post by: jakebass on July 03, 2009, 02:13:53 PM: Oh Man, I so want that fretless, bad exchange rate, import costs and the need to upgrade my studio prevent it...