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Alembic products => Showcase => Artists and Their Alembics => Topic started by: rv_bass on October 19, 2020, 03:55:55 PM

Title: Dickey Betts
Post by: rv_bass on October 19, 2020, 03:55:55 PM

Found this photo on Instagram...

Title: Re: Dickey Betts
Post by: elwoodblue on October 19, 2020, 04:03:35 PM

It's quite an Axe,
(http://alembic.com/club/messages/411/101777.jpg)


 here's a thread:


http://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=8391.msg98021#msg98021 (http://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=8391.msg98021#msg98021)

Title: Re: Dickey Betts
Post by: edwardofhuncote on October 19, 2020, 05:06:04 PM

I was thinking that guitar was for sale a couple-few years back. Didn't someone here go see it... down in Texas I thought?  My rusty ol' memory banks ain't what they usta' be...

Title: Re: Dickey Betts
Post by: elwoodblue on October 19, 2020, 05:22:57 PM

I thought it was in NorCal,
 but it looks like it was on the east coast a few years back:
https://reverb.com/item/565995-1974-alembic-dickey-betts-custom-natural

Title: Re: Dickey Betts
Post by: mica on October 20, 2020, 03:49:33 PM

Dickey said once that we made the headstock exactly the way he ordered it, and it was the ugliest thing he ever saw.

Title: Re: Dickey Betts
Post by: edwardofhuncote on October 20, 2020, 06:08:48 PM

Quote from: mica on October 20, 2020, 03:49:33 PM

Dickey said once that we made the headstock exactly the way he ordered it, and it was the ugliest thing he ever saw.

Is that perhaps the discussion captured in the first picture?  ;D


I always liked that one. Especially the rope-purfling, even around the scroll.  And the bird... not many like that.  8)