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Alembic products => Alembic Basses & Guitars => Topic started by: adriaan on October 31, 2008, 06:25:54 AM

Title: Gitarre und Bass showcases "AJ2"
Post by: adriaan on October 31, 2008, 06:25:54 AM
The November 08 issue of the German Gitarre und Bass magazine has a showcase (http://www1.gitarrebass.de/magazine/index.php?ID=200811302 target=_blank) on that wonderful Japanese-built bolt-on headless violin-shaped Alembic of the early 1980s.
 
Features that were new to me: it has a single ebony laminate in the neck, the bridge saddles and part of the bridge/anchor are made from wood, and the fretboard clears the E string above the 20th fret - for a better slap sound.
 
Apparently the string locking at the far end of the neck is a bit tricky.
 

(http://alembic.com/club/messages/393/57956.jpg)
 
 
(Message edited by adriaan on October 31, 2008)
Title: Gitarre und Bass showcases "AJ2"
Post by: elwoodblue on November 02, 2008, 12:25:10 AM
Very strange...I've never seen any details about those.If you have the magazine could you scan the page? ...a rarity for sure.