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Alembic products => Owning an Alembic => Serial Number / History Requests => Topic started by: brehm123 on November 18, 2020, 05:18:24 PM

Title: (?) HELP Finding out info on my alembic spoiler bass
Post by: brehm123 on November 18, 2020, 05:18:24 PM

hi i need some help on finding the serial number and getting some info on my bass i had reached out to mica and sent her pictures of the bass but she never responded to me the bass does not have a serial number on cause the fret board has been modified any help would be much appreciated thanks.

Title: Re: HELP Finding out info on my alembic spoiler bass
Post by: rv_bass on November 18, 2020, 06:04:00 PM

Hi, welcome, interesting looking carving on your bass. Sometimes the serial number is stamped on the lip of the electronics cavity that the cover rests on.

Otherwise it would likely have been on the end of the fretboard or on the missing truss rod cover.  Or, if it was a shop night bass it would not have a serial number.

Title: Re: HELP Finding out info on my alembic spoiler bass
Post by: mica on November 18, 2020, 06:45:48 PM

I don't have any emails from the address you have posted here, but I'm always glad to help. This bass would have had the serial number stamped in the Ebony fingerboard below the 24th fret. It looks to me that it was purposefully removed during the extensive modifications this bass underwent. I'm afraid we'll be unlikely to identify this bass.

It's probably started out as a 32" medium scale Spoiler with a 3-piece Maple neck, Ebony fingerboard, and solid Koa body. I'm concerned the electronics are not original as we don't offer any concentric controls, and the control pattern is not typical - and ALL Spoiler basses from this time had the same specifications. Can we see under the hood?

I saw this bass on the Club before. Wasn't it on ebay recently? I'll dig around here and see if we came to any conclusions about it.

Title: Re: (?) HELP Finding out info on my alembic spoiler bass
Post by: edwardofhuncote on November 18, 2020, 08:12:32 PM

Here was the thread we had running on that bass... I wondered if we might see it again.


http://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=25643.0

Title: Re: (?) HELP Finding out info on my alembic spoiler bass
Post by: brehm123 on November 19, 2020, 12:14:18 PM

i bought the bass off reverb the guy i bought it from told me it belonged to a guy named andrew waldeck he was in a pretty well known funk group called egypt in the 80s.

Title: Re: (?) HELP Finding out info on my alembic spoiler bass
Post by: brehm123 on November 19, 2020, 12:33:35 PM

i can send more pics if needed

Title: Re: (?) HELP Finding out info on my alembic spoiler bass
Post by: StephenR on November 19, 2020, 12:47:17 PM

Mica mentioned that she would like to see pictures of the inside of the electronics cavity and more pictures are always welcome here in general. Hope you are enjoying the bass.

Title: Re: (?) HELP Finding out info on my alembic spoiler bass
Post by: brehm123 on November 19, 2020, 01:33:56 PM

pics

Title: Re: (?) HELP Finding out info on my alembic spoiler bass
Post by: rv_bass on November 19, 2020, 02:23:26 PM

I’m not sure what is under the black rectangle, but from the photos those do not look like Alembic electronics.

Title: Re: (?) HELP Finding out info on my alembic spoiler bass
Post by: pauldo on November 19, 2020, 05:39:15 PM

The missing serial number is troubling to me. 

I bet if it was refinished the carving would really look sharp.


Paul (who started humming Graham Maby’s bass line from Sunday Papers after writing the last line)

Title: Re: (?) HELP Finding out info on my alembic spoiler bass
Post by: elwoodblue on November 19, 2020, 05:45:13 PM

After seeing Andy's playing you could argue he wore it down to the core,

(though I see a saw mark... if wood could talk  :D )