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Title: Fake Alembic Alert ? must be!
Post by: echo008 on June 15, 2007, 07:15:48 PM

Caught this one at Ishibashi music in Japan, looking at what they had in stock, the knobs/ Logo look correct but BOLT ON!!!! oh my.
 
http://www.ishibashi.co.jp/u_box/ubox.cgi?T=syosai&sline=4387&print=1&keys2=shibuya%40ishibashi%2Eco%2Ejp&tid=list3 (http://www.ishibashi.co.jp/u_box/ubox.cgi?T=syosai&sline=4387&print=1&keys2=shibuya%40ishibashi%2Eco%2Ejp&tid=list3)

Title: Fake Alembic Alert ? must be!
Post by: lbpesq on June 15, 2007, 07:20:45 PM

Tom:
 
This one is real, I do believe.  Alembic made a deal with a Japanese manufacturer.  I believe Alembic supplied the electronics and logo and the Japanese company did the rest.  They've been discussed around here before.  I'm sure someone will jump in who knows more about these than I do.
 
Bill, tgo

Title: Fake Alembic Alert ? must be!
Post by: echo008 on June 15, 2007, 07:24:58 PM

oh man ... I have not seen these before cant believe I missed that. wonder how many of these there are out there... this could be a pretty rare find then....maybe?
 
thanks for the heads up.
 -Tom

Title: Fake Alembic Alert ? must be!
Post by: FC Bass on June 15, 2007, 10:20:32 PM

I only see a 10HE SKB case...  
but it's like Tom says. The distributer in Japan wanted to keep Alembic alive and got the electronics and logo to put them on their basses due to limited availibility of the real thing  
Check this thread and the links in the thread (http://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=3569)
 
(Message edited by fc_spoiler on June 15, 2007)