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Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: hieronymous on July 10, 2010, 11:57:04 AM
Haven't done a thread like this in a while. Let's share pics of the headstocks of our beloved Alembics!
 
I'll start with a two-fer:
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82451.jpg)
 
Knobby pegheads on my '75 doubleneck!
 
OK, show 'em what ya got!
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: toma_hawk01 on July 10, 2010, 01:42:55 PM
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82455.jpg)
 
If Alembic basses could talk...
 
Tommy, you see what I see...  
 
Yeah, Shorty, one big happy family of cool Alembics...
 
Yeah, it's too cool bro...
 
 
 
(Message edited by toma_hawk01 on July 10, 2010)
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: tbrannon on July 10, 2010, 02:03:56 PM
I see the tomahawk has received some preventive padding!    Both of these basses have moved onto other homes, but here are the two I've had:  
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82459.jpg)
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82460.gif)
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: rraymond on July 10, 2010, 05:27:08 PM
Proud to provide "Mica Supplied" shots. Mark King Deluxe with Fan headstock, and Excel.  
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82472.jpg)
  The Elan and Series 1 had to make due with my photographic and editing skills!  
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82473.jpg)
  (Message edited by rraymond on July 10, 2010)
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: hieronymous on July 10, 2010, 06:59:21 PM
Awesome! Keep 'em coming!
 
Here's the cone headstock from my first Alembic, a Spoiler Exploiter:
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82479.jpg)
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: mg1125 on July 10, 2010, 07:06:45 PM
I thought showing my 1997 Essence
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82483.jpg)
 
[moderator's edit: format]
 
(Message edited by davehouck on July 16, 2010)
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: pace on July 10, 2010, 08:33:15 PM
SWEEET!  
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82488.jpg)
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82489.jpg)
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: adriaan on July 11, 2010, 02:02:53 AM
Here's my happy couple of cone heads ...
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82499.jpg)
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: room037 on July 11, 2010, 04:01:36 AM
Here are my 76' and 77' Fan head with 88' JJ sig. that I owned.
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82504.jpg)
 
Eiji
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: room037 on July 11, 2010, 04:27:29 AM
And unusual two Cone heads
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82508.jpg)
Eiji
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: crobbins on July 11, 2010, 12:30:48 PM
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82521.jpg)
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: tmoney61092 on July 11, 2010, 01:27:42 PM
Mike Pace, thats a pretty awesome neck recipe you have going on there!
 
~Taylor
 
(Message edited by tmoney61092 on July 11, 2010)
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: dfung60 on July 11, 2010, 05:06:40 PM
Here's my headstocks:  Graphite Series 1, seen here recently in another thread:  
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82534.jpg)
  Series Exploiter with a nice cone:  
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82535.jpg)
  Series 8-String knobby:  
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82536.jpg)
  Series II 5-string:  
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82537.jpg)
  My bass is the one on the the Series II product page.  This isn't the best headstock photo, but the back is pretty interesting:  
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82538.jpg)
  This instrument is 35" scale, but I think that somebody may have missed that early on on the work order.  The scarf joint is really extended on this  bass, way past the headstock and down into the fingerboard area which you can see on the back.  When I first received this bass, the thinnest point of the neck was actually underneath the first fret area, sort of a negative volute that screamed "break neck here".    We did a neck profile rework on this instrument after the first completion which included some additional veneer layers on the back of the headstock so the headstock didn't seem quite so precarious.  There was never any negative effect on the sustain or tone before or after, but it did look pretty scary from the side. Nobody but Alembic could have done a fix like this.  I requested that Alembic do this bass with ebony neck laminates; this bass is the origin of today's ebony neck lam option.  David Fung
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: lbpesq on July 12, 2010, 07:23:33 AM
Some of mine:  
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82563.jpg)

(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82564.jpg)
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82565.jpg)

(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82566.jpg)
   Bill, tgo
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82567.jpg)
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: shae on July 12, 2010, 11:45:34 AM
Here's the headstock from my 86 Persuader.  
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82576.jpg)
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82577.jpg)
  (Message edited by shae on July 12, 2010)
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: kenbass4 on July 12, 2010, 12:38:26 PM
Ok, here we go  (Paul TBO, please forgive me...)
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82590.jpg)
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82591.jpg)
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82592.jpg)
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: jacko on July 13, 2010, 04:40:36 AM
mine..
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82619.jpg)
 
Graeme
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: Bradley Young on July 13, 2010, 11:03:52 PM
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82654.jpg)
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: jacko on July 14, 2010, 03:12:27 AM
Love that bevelled edge and the small omega Brad.
 
Graeme
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: serialnumber12 on July 14, 2010, 05:19:49 AM
30 Head stocks?(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82670.jpg)
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: jacko on July 14, 2010, 05:21:59 AM
That doesn't count keavin. We need close-ups :-)
 
Graeme
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: jazzyvee on July 14, 2010, 11:21:57 AM
Keavin, everytime I see one of those pics I can't help wondering if I could get a strike with a ten pin bowling ball.. hahaha
;-)
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82686.gif)
Jazzyvee
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: pierreyves on July 14, 2010, 12:03:56 PM
ok let's go:  my first SC deluxe from 2004
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82699.jpg)
  my first and last MK5 (too heavy), sold
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82700.jpg)
  my second SC deluxe from 2008
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82701.jpg)
  my MK4 deluxe
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82702.jpg)
  my Koa series II, gold plated hardware...waaaw...
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82703.jpg)
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: pierreyves on July 14, 2010, 12:04:55 PM
ooops, double post sorry!
 
(Message edited by pierreyves on July 14, 2010)
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: pauldo on July 14, 2010, 04:32:18 PM
84 Distillate - zebrawood - Hipshot on the E
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82728.jpg)
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82729.jpg)
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82730.jpg)
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: harald_rost on July 15, 2010, 12:34:44 AM
1976 Series 1 Lacewood Top and back(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82754.jpg)
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: eligilam on July 15, 2010, 10:30:28 AM
The winner is byoung!
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: crgaston on July 15, 2010, 08:01:11 PM
Closeups...  
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82793.jpg)
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82794.jpg)
  And while they're all awesome, Pace, Bill and Brad have got the front-runners, IMHO.  (Message edited by crgaston on July 15, 2010)
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: honninscrave on July 15, 2010, 08:38:20 PM
My Exploiter's bubinga cone peghead....
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82797.jpg)
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: FC Bass on July 16, 2010, 09:06:29 AM
Remember Kurgan's advise: Don't lose your head :-)  Her are my current 4:  '83 Spoiler:  
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82821.jpg)
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82822.jpg)
  '88 Spoiler:  
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82823.jpg)
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82824.jpg)
  '90 Elan:  
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82825.jpg)
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82826.jpg)
  '06 Custom:  
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82827.jpg)
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82828.jpg)
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: tbrannon on July 16, 2010, 09:34:09 AM
Charles' dragonfly always gets me and I love that inlayed shell on his logo
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: David Houck on July 16, 2010, 04:11:05 PM

(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82850.jpg)
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82851.jpg)
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: kilowatt on July 18, 2010, 06:39:42 AM

(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82903.jpg)

(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82904.jpg)
 Here is my Series II  Regards, Pete
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: jazzyvee on July 18, 2010, 10:31:43 AM
Stanley Signature Deluxe
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82919.jpg)
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82920.jpg)
 Orion Guitar
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82921.jpg)

(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82922.jpg)
 Europa5
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82923.jpg)

(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82924.jpg)
 Elan plus 4
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82925.jpg)

(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82926.jpg)
 Dragon Magic Series I
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82927.jpg)

(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82928.jpg)
  Jazzyvee
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: pace on July 18, 2010, 01:29:27 PM
Pete, good to see ya around these parts!
 
Dave, is the headstock on your 6 thinner than the norm? I had them use a guitar-sized crown on mine.
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: tmoney61092 on July 18, 2010, 01:53:06 PM
what does the fret x do, Jazzyvee?
 
~Taylor
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Post by: David Houck on July 18, 2010, 02:02:50 PM
Mike; I believe it's just the standard six string bass crown.
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: kilowatt on July 18, 2010, 02:05:33 PM
Mike,
 
I stop in every day or so to do a little reading, but there are so many people on this site that know more than I do. I would love to see everyone get together soon. I would really like to jam with you on that pedal steel. One of my favorite instruments! Hope all is well.
 
Regards,
Pete
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: dadabass2001 on July 18, 2010, 03:49:42 PM
Taylor, Jazzy has a FretFX aftermarket LED set on his Europa, That's the battery pack on the back of the headstock and the clear tube running to to the front contains the LEDs and attaches to the top of the neck.  The LED array and the battery pack attach with an adhesive strip that doesn't mar the surface, but can't be shifted or transferred once it's attached. I've got them on two of my Alembics as well, and I love them (my third Alembic has the factory installed LEDs). Here's mine on my Epic (they were originally called "Hot Dotz"):
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82979.jpg)
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82980.jpg)
  and here's my Distillate:
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82981.jpg)
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82982.jpg)
  They're available in red, blue or green, are MUCH less costly than retrofitting, and use 1 or 2 AA rather than 4 9-volt batteries (depending on LED color selected). Here's a side shot of the Distillate:
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82983.jpg)
  I don't have a headstock only shot of my fretless Epic, so here's me and my baby:
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82984.jpg)
  Mike
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: hieronymous on July 18, 2010, 04:19:29 PM
Mike, is that a knobby headstock on your fretless Epic, like on my doubleneck in the first pic in this thread?
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Post by: dadabass2001 on July 18, 2010, 05:19:03 PM
Yes, it is Harry.
Mike
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Post by: serialnumber12 on July 18, 2010, 05:52:05 PM
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/82988.jpg)
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Post by: tmoney61092 on July 18, 2010, 08:24:03 PM
thanks, Mike!
 
~Taylor
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Post by: dadabass2001 on July 19, 2010, 06:30:14 AM
And thanks Kev, for the shot from last year's Chicago gathering.
 
Mike
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Post by: mg1125 on July 20, 2010, 04:51:11 PM
This is my 1990 Spoiler headstock
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/83058.jpg)

(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/83059.jpg)
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: mc500 on July 20, 2010, 05:27:45 PM
Guys, those look awesome.  Here is my contribution.  
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/83067.jpg)
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/83068.jpg)
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/83069.jpg)
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: mica on July 22, 2010, 09:55:18 AM
Wonderful! I can't seem to take a clear picture of a peghead on the shop floor. These all look great.
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: edwin on July 22, 2010, 12:10:43 PM
I can't wait to be able to show pictures of the headstock of my impending Series I!
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Post by: gregduboc on July 30, 2010, 02:03:47 PM
Stanley Clarke Deluxe:  
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/83527.jpg)
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/83528.jpg)
  Distillate:  
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/83529.jpg)
  Series I:  
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/83530.jpg)
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/83531.jpg)
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/83532.jpg)
  Greg
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: hieronymous on July 30, 2010, 02:19:02 PM
Great! Thanks for reviving this thread with some nice shots!
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Post by: toma_hawk01 on July 30, 2010, 04:02:00 PM
Greg pulls out the big guns with a Triple Double!!!
 
Man, that bass warms me up all inside, every time I see it.  
 
Peace and Love,
 
Hal-
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: gregduboc on July 30, 2010, 10:42:45 PM
Thanks for the nice comments guys!
Harry, I don't have a picture of my Exploiter's headstock too add to this thread, but it is basically the same as yours, so it would be sort of redundant.
Hal, your compliments are always welcome!  
 
Greg
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: dela217 on July 31, 2010, 10:19:50 PM
Here is the headstock of my 1972 Alembic.  Please excuse the poor pic.  I took this one with my phone.
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/83587.jpg)
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: sonicus on July 31, 2010, 10:57:20 PM
Nice scalloped string nut !
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Post by: longhorncat on August 02, 2010, 08:53:54 PM
:
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/83724.jpg)
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Post by: dadabass2001 on August 03, 2010, 08:32:52 AM
It's like the overhead shot of a water ballet!  
Mike
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Post by: mario_farufyno on August 03, 2010, 10:54:28 AM
Wow, Mike, that Epic Fretless's headstock is SO nice!
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: dadabass2001 on August 05, 2010, 06:26:18 AM
Gracias, Mario.
The maple face complements the knobby style. That bass was an Ebay find about 8 years ago. It's my main instrument in the Noah Gabriel Band.
Mike
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: gregduboc on August 05, 2010, 09:30:24 AM
Mike, I don't want to be a pain in the a**, but in Brazil we say obrigado! (http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/83842.gif)
 
Greg
 
ps. Awesome picture!
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Post by: dadabass2001 on August 05, 2010, 08:18:49 PM
Obrigado Greg (sorry, I had high school Spanish many years ago and didn't know the right word in Portugese) (I hope I'm not making a complete fool of myself)  
Anyway, thanks for the compliment.
Mike
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Post by: badaxe24 on August 08, 2010, 01:57:23 PM
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/84041.jpg)
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Post by: hieronymous on August 08, 2010, 06:51:26 PM
Finally, my Stanley Clarke Sig Standard 5-string:
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/84055.jpg)
Title: Show your headstocks!
Post by: oddmetersam on August 08, 2010, 08:50:18 PM
I thought I'd go for a slightly different angle on my headstock. She's a MK Sig Dlx.
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/84061.jpg)
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Post by: edwardofhuncote on March 05, 2017, 05:39:35 AM
Caught these two together the other day.  ;D

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Post by: serialnumber12 on March 05, 2017, 05:49:56 AM
#12.
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Post by: hieronymous on March 06, 2017, 04:28:27 PM
Thanks for reviving this thread edwardofhuncote - now I can share my Stanley Clarke headstock - upgraded to Signature Squared:

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8233/28132201274_11f3225a61_z.jpg)
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Post by: edwardofhuncote on March 06, 2017, 05:10:07 PM
Harry, Jazzy reminded me of it in another thread a couple weeks ago... -I was obsessing over logo placement at the time- anyway, I hope to be adding a cocobolo-faced 3+2 Elan headstock to this thread soon. ;D  Though I have no idea where the logo will end up. I decided to stop thinking about it, and just enjoy the surprise.   ::)


*nice Stanley Squared Sig. We just saw it's maple twin on ebay and Reverb today. 
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Post by: FC Bass on March 06, 2017, 05:32:54 PM
Also a couple of new ones here :-)

1979 Series I
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/394/209340.jpg)

2010 Elan
(http://www.fcbass.nl/index_bestanden/alembic/elan5/DSC00211.JPG)

1999 Orion
(http://alembic.com/club/messages/411/200448.jpg)

1983 Spoiler with added script
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/411/148873.jpg)

And the 1988 Spoiler again to make things complete :-) (I sold the other two from my previous post)
(http://www.fcbass.nl/htmfiles/bassen/88headfront.jpg)


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Post by: pauldo on March 06, 2017, 06:18:56 PM
What is/ was the criteria for which headstocks had the medallion and which ones had the medallion w/ script?
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Post by: edwardofhuncote on March 06, 2017, 09:21:39 PM
Quote from: pauldo on March 06, 2017, 06:18:56 PM
What is/ was the criteria for which headstocks had the medallion and which ones had the medallion w/ script?


I think the 'script' badges first appeared in 1987 or so... but I don't know if there ever was/is an ironclad rule about them from model to model. There are a couple older basses that have retrofit script badges too. Keavin's old #12 comes to mind. I see FC's Wild-Walnut 1977 Series has one too.
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Post by: jazzyvee on March 07, 2017, 01:08:57 AM
Here is my latest headstock picture.
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Post by: adriaan on March 07, 2017, 04:00:18 AM
(http://club.alembic.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=22569.0;attach=2390;image)
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Post by: FC Bass on March 07, 2017, 03:17:39 PM
Gregory: Indeed 1987 (second half iirc) They stopped around 2003, but the script is always available on request.
Most older instruments with script got them while under repair/being modified at the mothership I think, I added the ones on mine myself (on the '79 SI and '83 Spoiler)
A friend of mine has a Jeweler shop and some high tech 3d scanning/printing equipment, so it was pretty easy for him to replicate them in Silver and Brass. :-) (Brass should have been bronze I think, that one is a bit too goldish yellow compared to the logo)
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Post by: Spoiler Alert on March 08, 2017, 07:27:37 AM
1985 Spoiler. I really love this bass and it's my first Alembic. Only waited until I was 55 to join the club. Better late than never. 
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Post by: rv_bass on March 11, 2017, 08:49:08 AM
Here's three more:

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Post by: dannobasso on March 12, 2017, 04:27:36 PM
My 10 string.
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Post by: dead_head on March 14, 2017, 05:31:37 PM
My Custom Tribute 5 Bass
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Post by: mario_farufyno on March 15, 2017, 10:00:17 AM
Wow, Danno, did you ever posted a full bodie pic of this 10 strings?
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Post by: tncaveman on March 17, 2017, 09:00:25 PM
my 98 Rogue  ;D  and recently sold 89 Elan fretless  :'(
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Post by: rustyg61 on March 20, 2017, 07:18:34 AM
My 2014 "Blue Orca" Europa & 2011 SCSD
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Post by: CaseyVancouver on March 22, 2017, 09:17:15 PM
Here's my walnut fretless 04 Essence!

Forgive me for including this one but I know a few of us love special wood here! 2001 Chandler upright, made of Vancouver Island big leaf flamed maple from Reid Hudson. Very special bass.
Cheers
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Post by: edwardofhuncote on March 23, 2017, 02:50:12 AM
BIG thumbs-up for the Chandler Upright.  ;D

Hmmm... maybe we should start a Misc. thread for us giant violinists?
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Post by: SteveB on March 31, 2017, 08:34:33 AM
My 87' Persuader...
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Post by: maarten⊙ on April 06, 2017, 01:15:23 PM
My logo.
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Post by: maarten⊙ on April 06, 2017, 01:16:56 PM
Oops, wrong subject. Sorry.