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Title: September Featured Custom
Post by: mica on September 13, 2010, 06:23:51 PM
Well, it's a little later than I'd like, but it's available for your viewing pleasure:
 Double Duty (http://www.alembic.com/info/fc_dd.html).
 
And just because Alembic Club members are so awesome, here's a couple of extra images to enjoy:
 

(http://alembic.com/club/messages/393/86119.jpg)
 
 

(http://alembic.com/club/messages/393/86120.jpg)
Title: September Featured Custom
Post by: gregduboc on September 13, 2010, 06:26:56 PM
Wow.... I want a double neck like that!!!
 
Greg
Title: September Featured Custom
Post by: apdavis on September 13, 2010, 06:39:17 PM
Just beautiful.
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Post by: crobbins on September 13, 2010, 06:47:11 PM
Right on Frank.........
Title: September Featured Custom
Post by: sonicus on September 13, 2010, 07:13:11 PM
This is very cool . Such a creative tool. Just looking at it conjures up thoughts of the the infinite possibilities .   I can personally see my self playing it immediately with a looping device . YES  !  
 
    I like it , I like it a lot ! Congratulations !  
 
      Alembic does it again ___________
Title: September Featured Custom
Post by: mario_farufyno on September 13, 2010, 07:21:08 PM
Cooooooolll...
Title: September Featured Custom
Post by: crgaston on September 13, 2010, 07:30:06 PM
Sweet! Love the 5-pin feature, too!
Title: September Featured Custom
Post by: ajdover on September 13, 2010, 07:34:55 PM
It must weigh a ton, though.  Nice bass in any event.
Title: September Featured Custom
Post by: artswork99 on September 13, 2010, 08:25:54 PM
Really nice, congratulations Frank!
Title: September Featured Custom
Post by: josh_emmons on September 13, 2010, 08:26:51 PM
woooo!!!! that is one hotty!!
Title: September Featured Custom
Post by: bigredbass on September 13, 2010, 09:59:54 PM
I just love the orange-y look of vermillion.  Really cool that it's a double five.  My only question is:  Is the new owner about the size of an NFL lineman ? ? ?  Can we hook Geddy up with one?  It'd look a lot cooler than that pawn-shop Jazz !
 
J o e y
Title: September Featured Custom
Post by: bassjigga on September 13, 2010, 10:27:30 PM
I think what we all want to know is....... what does that thing weigh?!
Title: September Featured Custom
Post by: hieronymous on September 13, 2010, 11:12:56 PM
Wow! Just... wow. As a fellow Alembic double-neck owner, I say congratulations and congratulations again!
Title: September Featured Custom
Post by: speicky on September 14, 2010, 01:06:18 AM
I don't like it...
 
I LOVE IT ! Congratulations, WOW, what a stunning work of art  
 
cheers, Christian
Title: September Featured Custom
Post by: jacko on September 14, 2010, 04:49:35 AM
That is so cool. I can't comment on the weight of a double neck but my fretless rogue is as light as a feather compared to my signature deluxe so I don't suppose this one will be much more than the sig.
 
Graeme
Title: September Featured Custom
Post by: terryc on September 14, 2010, 06:01:57 AM
Nice bass, is there a build record for this beauty.
Title: September Featured Custom
Post by: 811952 on September 14, 2010, 10:14:44 AM
I like that!
Title: September Featured Custom
Post by: briant on September 14, 2010, 11:38:43 AM
That's hotness.  I would hate to play a 3+ hour gig with it.  Me thinks it would be a bit heavy.
Title: September Featured Custom
Post by: David Houck on September 14, 2010, 04:23:12 PM
Congrats Frank!!  I love how the Maple laminate frames the top in the picture Mica posted at the top of this thread.
Title: September Featured Custom
Post by: rjmsteel on September 15, 2010, 06:25:07 AM
Wow!!! Double 5 string and the Side mounted 5 pin is also very cool.
Title: September Featured Custom
Post by: rami on September 15, 2010, 07:08:55 PM
That's very, very cool!  The Rogue body almost looks more suited for double than single neck design.  What keeps holding me back from building one is deciding on the endless possibilities.
 
This one is a real beauty - very inspirational.
 
Congrats Frank!
 
Title: September Featured Custom
Post by: serialnumber12 on September 16, 2010, 05:07:49 AM
Beautiful Bass.....so this is just a Custom & not a series bass with a hidden hum cancellers correct?
Title: September Featured Custom
Post by: tmoney61092 on September 16, 2010, 05:32:40 AM
Correct, reading the COTM on this it says they put the 5-pin input since he uses series basses so he could power this with his power supply
 
~Taylor
Title: September Featured Custom
Post by: mica on September 16, 2010, 12:55:15 PM
There wasn't a Factory to Customer thread on this build, but I collected images of the construction. Here's some scrap from trimming the neck:
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/86286.jpg)
 
I think it looks really cool!
Title: September Featured Custom
Post by: sonicus on September 16, 2010, 01:07:11 PM
I think it looks like a sculpture in the style of Joan Miro' i Ferra http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Mir%C3%B3 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Mir%C3%B3)
Title: September Featured Custom
Post by: adriaan on September 16, 2010, 01:31:37 PM
More El Lissitzky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Lissitzky target=_blank), if you ask me. But hey - it's in the eye of the beholder!
Title: September Featured Custom
Post by: sonicus on September 16, 2010, 01:40:44 PM
adriaan , I can see your point regarding the angular motif .
 yes that's a good call_____
Title: September Featured Custom
Post by: adriaan on September 16, 2010, 01:50:24 PM
The joy of artful association ...
Title: September Featured Custom
Post by: mica on September 16, 2010, 01:59:26 PM
I was getting the Bauhaus/Kandinsky feeling from it. Eye of the beholder is right!
Title: September Featured Custom
Post by: dfung60 on September 16, 2010, 02:58:40 PM
Whoa!  Ten the hard way!
 
But does anybody actually favor the neck pickup on a fretless?  Bridge pickup all the way, and turn down the treble! :-)
 
David Fung
Title: September Featured Custom
Post by: sonicus on September 16, 2010, 07:38:48 PM
Yes , I like the bridge pickup all the way up and the neck pickup about  a third the way up with the highs cut just a bit  on a fretless .
Title: September Featured Custom
Post by: sonicus on September 16, 2010, 08:04:13 PM
I can also see how you could also get  the Kandinsky  thing from that remnant  .Maybe  it is just a matter of letting your mind flow  to similar motifs and interpretations  . Like music,  similar elements exist  
constantly mutating within multiple representations and perceptions . Why ?  maybe it's the beauty of the human mind .  Like improvisational music we can let all of the various elements reflect and digress .
 I like that aspect . Nothing ever gets old that way .
Title: September Featured Custom
Post by: lbpesq on September 16, 2010, 08:12:56 PM
Art!  I'll take it!  
 
Bill, tgo
Title: September Featured Custom
Post by: jazzyvee on September 16, 2010, 11:30:34 PM
That cutoff to me looks like the front paws, head and pricked up ears of a scottie dog.
 
Jazzyve
 
(Message edited by jazzyvee on September 16, 2010)
Title: September Featured Custom
Post by: jacko on September 17, 2010, 01:15:17 AM
or a scottie dog disguised as an oryx ;-)
 
Graeme
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Post by: edwin on September 17, 2010, 02:13:14 PM
Whatever it looks like, that scrap should get sanded, finished and displayed, I hope it doesn't end up in the dumpster!
 
Oh, and lovely bass, as well. I think I'd have to play it seated, but I bet it sounds just wonderful.
 
(Message edited by edwin on September 18, 2010)
Title: September Featured Custom
Post by: pauldo on September 17, 2010, 03:21:06 PM
love the thick backside on that!!
Title: September Featured Custom
Post by: rjmsteel on September 17, 2010, 06:36:13 PM
Kandinsky, for sure.
Even looks similar to a lithograph we have.